The head of Job Anderson, the boatswain, appeared in the middle loophole
Date1947
Artist
Norman Mills Price
(American illustrator, 1877–1951)
Illustration CitationTreasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1947)
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 11 × 20 1/16 in. (27.9 × 51 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-157
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextHere, Job Anderson, the leader of a mutiny, stages a surprise attack on the crew of a ship that is in search of buried treasure. While the ship is at anchor, he and the mutineers attack the startled sailors; one is already stricken and others reach for their swords. Norman Mill Price’s calligraphic lines suggest both the gun smoke and the agitated movement of the scene.Trained in his native Canada, London, and Paris, Price was working as an illustrator in New York by 1912. He illustrated classical literature as well as contemporary
stories in popular magazines. Attentive to historical and literary detail, he researched his subjects carefully in order to render characters and plots convincingly.
