Howard Pyle’s pirates
May 30, 2007
The Buccaneer was a Picturesque Fellow by Howard Pyle (1905).
Seeing as how Johnny Depp and co. are sailing the Spanish Main once more (to mixed reviews, unfortunately), now is perhaps a suitable moment to note the genesis of our popular conception of buccaneers. The famous characters of the Wild West were being mythologised while [...]
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