Kidd on the Deck of the "Adventure Galley"

Kidd on the Deck of the "Adventure Galley"
Kidd on the Deck of the "Adventure Galley"

Kidd on the Deck of the "Adventure Galley"

Date1902
Artist (American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"The True Captain Kidd," by John D. Champlin, Jr., in Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1902
MediumCrayon and watercolor on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 16 15/16 × 10 3/4 in. (43 × 27.3 cm)
sheet: 19 1/4 × 13 in. (48.9 × 33 cm)
mat: 24 11/16 × 17 5/8 in. (62.7 × 44.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-24
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextPyle often endowed his pirates with a dashing yet sinister character. The expression, stance, and costume of Captain Kidd epitomize the romantic outlaw.

The illustration accompanies an article about Captain William Kidd, the late 17th century Scottish captain of the Adventure Galley, a ship commissioned by the English crown as a privateer - a private warship authorized by its government to plunder enemy vessels during wartime. When the English government judged some of Kidd's actions as outside maritime law, he was hanged as a pirate in 1701.


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