Blackbeard's Last Fight

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Blackbeard's Last Fight
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Blackbeard's Last Fight

Date1895
Illustration Citation"Jack Ballister's Fortunes," by Howard Pyle, in St. Nicholas, July 1895
MediumOil on illustration board
Dimensions15 1/8 x 10 in. (38.4 x 25.4 cm)
frame: 22 3/8 × 18 7/16 in. (56.8 × 46.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse, 1923
Object number1923-89
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Label TextA story of 18th-century Virginia, “Jack Ballister's Fortunes” mixes real and imagined players. In this cliff-hanger scene, two historical characters face each other. In 1718, the pirate Blackbeard (with the braid) is about to meet his death after he has ambushed his countryman Lieutenant James Maynard of the Royal Navy (shown from behind) in the Atlantic off the British colony of North Carolina.

Image Not Available for Sketch for Jack Ballister's Fortunes; Blackbeard's Last Fight
Sketch for Jack Ballister's Fortunes; Blackbeard's Last Fight
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Sketch for Jack Ballister's Fortunes; Blackbeard's Last Fight
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Sketch for Jack Ballister's Fortunes; Blackbeard's Last Fight
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