EXTRACTS: Pirates! Illustrators Special Edition © 2020 The Book Palace (128 PAGES in Full edition)

79 times what he had expected! After that, he pretty much became an artist in demand, and continued working for magazines illustrating dozens of other works, both from stories by other writers and those written by himself. Pyle’s attention to detail in his illustrations was such that, when asked by Harper’s Weekly to illustrate their December 1878 piece ‘Christmas Morning in Old New York’, Pyle went out FACING PAGE: A Wounded Enemy , oil on board, 1853. Illustration for Harold Frederic’s ‘In The Valley’ serial for Scribner’s Magazine , July 1890. ABOVE: ‘ Behold it Then?’ Cried Perseus , oil on panel, 1900. Illustration for a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.