Search Results: Howard Pyle

An early 20th-century illustration by Howard Pyle showing a buccaneer. The buccaneers terrorized the Spanish Main from 1620 to 1697. (From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish...

He Led Jack up to a Man Who Sat upon a Barrel' by Howard Pyle, an illustration for a 1921 edition of Jack Ballister's Fortunes by Howard Pyle and Merle De Vore (ed).

A sketch of an armed pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main, New York, Harper and Brothers.

A detail of a 1909 painting showing a marooned mariner by the artist and writer Howard Pyle (1853-1911). To be marooned without food or water, sometimes even without clothes, was a punishment given to a mariner or pirate who had seriously...

Captain Keitt, a detail from the frontispiece of The Ruby of Kishmoor, written and illustrated by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). First published in 1908.

An illustration of a victim walking the plank by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). Published to illustrate Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main in Harper's Magazine, 1887.

Capture of the Galleon' by Howard Pyle, an illustration which first appeared in Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main in an 1887 edition of Harper's Magazine.

The great discoverer of the treasures of King Tutankhamun, Howard Carter, was born on May 9, 1874 CE to Samuel John and Martha Joyce (Sands) Carter in Kensington, England. A sick, home-schooled child, Carter learned to draw and paint from...

An illustration by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) showing the notorious pirate Blackbeard's fight to the death in 1718. From an original oil painting by Pyle. (The illustration first appeared in Pyle, Howard (1894), Jack Ballister's Fortunes, The...

Chief Joseph (Heinmot Tooyalakekt, l. 1840-1904) was the leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Native American nation, who, in 1877, resisted forced relocation from his ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley of northeastern Oregon and...