Sunday, July 24, 2022

A Man of Gigantic Mould Broke Out of the Tangled Labyrinth of a Small Swamp, Emerging Into an Opening, illustration by N.C. Wyeth for James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer (1925)

 


4 comments:

  1. Why does he hold a catcher's mitt?

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  2. All I see is a couple thousand dollars of lumber per tree...

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  3. This book with these illustrations was around me when I grew up. The illustrations fascinated me. The book itself was difficult reading, even though I was a very advanced reader as a child.

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  4. Interestingly enough, the main figure in this illustration is "Hurry Harry," who is something of a minor villain, or at least a rather unsympathetic character, being a good-looking but violent, arrogant, and selfish young man. The hero of the story is Natty Bumppo, who is the background figure.
    -Grey Fox

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