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Howard Pyle
Born(1853-03-05)March 5, 1853
DiedNovember 9, 1911(1911-11-09) (aged 58)
Known forIllustration, writing for children
Notable work
StyleBrandywine School
SpouseAnne Poole
RelativesKatharine Pyle (sister)
Signature
Signature of Howard Pyle on paper

Other works

  • Otto of the Silver Hand, about the son of a robber baron during the medieval period.
  • Rejected of Men: A Story of To-day (1903), setting the story of Jesus as if it had occurred during early twentieth-century America.[1]
  • Portfolio of Etchings: In 1903 the Bibliophile Society of Boston commissioned Pyle to create a series of paintings of scholars and bibliophiles for a limited, four-volume set of books titled The bibliomania, or book-madness.[2][3] The paintings proved popular and the Bibliophile Society commissioned American engraver W. H. W. Bicknell to create copper etched copies of Pyle's five oil paintings from The Bibliomania books. The etched prints in the Portfolio of Etchings portray the following literary figures:
  • Richard de Bury and the Young Edward III
    Richard de Bury and the Young Edward III
  • Caxton at his Press
    Caxton at his Press
  • Erasmus reading to Colet and More
    Erasmus reading to Colet and More
Richard de Bury and the Young Edward III
Caxton at his Press
Erasmus reading to Colet and More
  1. ^ The title is from Isaiah 53:3 (KJV), "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."
  2. ^ Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Cutter, W. P.; Garnett, Richard; Bibliophile Society (Boston, Mass.) (1903). The bibliomania, or book-madness; history, symptoms and cure of this fatal disease. Boston: The Bibliophile society.
  3. ^ "Etchings by W. H. W. Bicknell after Original Paintings by Howard Pyle by (Pyle, Howard); Bicknell, W. H. W.: Signed by Author(s) | Illustrators Bookcase". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  • The Wonder Clock (1887), a collection of twenty-four tales, one for each hour of the day. Each tale was prefaced by a whimsical verse telling of traditional household goings-on at that hour. His sister Katharine Pyle wrote the verses. Pyle created the tales based on traditional European folktales.
  • Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk, traditional tales for younger readers which he also illustrated.
  • After his death, a publisher collected a number of his pirate stories and illustrations and published them as Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates (1921).

Further reading

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