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Pirates, patriots and paladins: The lush visions of a master illustrator

Johnny Depp owes thanks to Howard Pyle, the 19th-century artist who created the image of the swashbuckling pirate

By Emma Mustich

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"Away they rode with clashing hoofs and ringing armor"
From "Otto of the Silver Hand," written and illustrated by Howard Pyle, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888.
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"The Coming of Lancaster"
From "The Scabbard" by James Branch Cabell, Harper's Monthly Magazine, May 1908.
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"The Flying Dutchman"
From "The Flying Dutchman," Collier's Weekly, Dec. 8, 1900.
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"The Buccaneer Was a Picturesque Fellow"
From "The Fate of a Treasure Town" by Howard Pyle, Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1905.
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"We Started to Run back to the Raft for Our Lives"
From "Sinbad on Burrator" by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch, Scribner's Magazine, August 1902.
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"Marooned," 1909
(Not produced for a publication)
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"An Attack on a Galleon"
From "The Fate of a Treasure Town" by Howard Pyle, Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1905.
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"The Mermaid," 1910
(Not produced for a publication)
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"Jefferson signing the Declaration"
From "The Story of the Revolution" by Henry Cabot Lodge, Scribner's Magazine, March 1898; reproduced in "The Story of the Revolution" by Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898.
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"The Rush from the New York Stock Exchange on September 18, 1873"
From "A History of the Last Quarter Century" by E. Benjamin Andrews, Scribner's Magazine, July 1895.
Howard Pyle Manuscript Collection

Howard Pyle at his studio easel. Taken by C.P.M. Rumford, 1898.

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