I sat at her feet while she drilled the island language into me
Date1902
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"Sinbad on Burrator," by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch, in Scribner's Magazine, August 1902
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions23 3/4 × 15 3/4 in. (60.3 × 40 cm)
frame: 32 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (82.6 × 62.2 cm)
frame: 32 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (82.6 × 62.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-98
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextHoward Pyle illustrated these 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. Still in his dress uniform and with his military tuba, he had various adventures--humorous, dangerous, and romantic--until he was rescued.
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.
