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Posted on: 4 December 2013
Digital Rare Book:
Rabindranath Tagore - A biographical study
By Ernest Rhys
Published by MacMillan, London - 1915
Read Book Online:
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Image:
Sir Rabindranath Tagore
by Sir William Rothenstein
sanguine and black and white chalk, 1930
17 7/8 in. x 10 7/8 in. (455 mm x 276 mm) uneven
Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 2005
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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