Headpiece and decorated initial S with title and design for Sinbad on Burrator

Headpiece and decorated initial S with title and design for Sinbad on Burrator
Headpiece and decorated initial S with title and design for Sinbad on Burrator

Headpiece and decorated initial S with title and design for Sinbad on Burrator

Date1902
Artist (American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"Sinbad on Burrator," by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch, in Scribner's Magazine, August 1902
MediumOil on illustration board
Dimensions17 3/4 × 15 1/8 in. (45.1 × 38.4 cm)
frame: 26 1/4 × 22 5/16 in. (66.7 × 56.7 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund and Gayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1991
Object number1991-19
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn his illustrations for Sinbad on Burrator, Howard Pyle illustrated scenes narrated by an old sailor living on Burrator, a plateau of wilderness area in England. The sailor recounts how, as a member of a shipboard military band in the waters off Borneo, he ended up on an island when left behind by his ship. The two characters here depict natives of the island. The Sinbad of the title was a fictional seaman with magic powers from Middle Eastern literature made popular by the 1885 English translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.
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