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All day, held spell-bound by this wonderful sight, the hermit crouched in the shadow of the rocks.

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caption: pen and ink by Howard Pyle for "A Forgotten Tale" by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in …

All day, held spell-bound by this wonderful sight, the hermit crouched in the shadow of the rocks.

All day, held spell-bound by this wonderful sight, the hermit crouched in the shadow of the rocks.

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caption: pen and ink by Howard Pyle for "A Forgotten Tale" by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in …

(American, 1882 - 1945)

All day, held spell-bound by this wonderful sight, the hermit crouched in the shadow of the rocks.

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The Coming of the Huns

1910

47 × 38 in. (119.4 × 96.5 cm)

SUPP2000.656

The New York Public Library

Not on view

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All Day Long He Gazed Steadily on the Shifting Shadows

All Day Long He Gazed Steadily on the Shifting Shadows

N.C. Wyeth

1908

Plate #2 | Poor Tom began to whine and shake | When with his spells the Wizard bound him | And set on him a monstrous snake | Which coiled its ugly self around him.

Plate #2 | Poor Tom began to whine and shake | When with his spells the Wizard bound him | And set on him a monstrous snake | Which coiled its ugly self around him.

Royal Lacey Scoville

ca. 1915

untitled (sketch of rocks dusted with snow)

untitled (sketch of rocks dusted with snow)

N.C. Wyeth

ca. 1912 / 1913

The Rocks Above My Studio

The Rocks Above My Studio

N.C. Wyeth

ca. 1911

When I tried with cracked lips and swollen tongue to babble of what I had witnessed, he called me a liar and threw stones at me so that I had to crawl into a crevice in the rocks to dodge the missiles.

When I tried with cracked lips and swollen tongue to babble of what I had witnessed, he called me a liar and threw stones at me so that I had to crawl into a crevice in the rocks to dodge the missiles.

N.C. Wyeth

1914

Rocks, Port Clyde

Rocks, Port Clyde

N.C. Wyeth

ca. 1920-1929

Jonathan shot, as he walked along, and the boy, running ahead, picked up the arrows and brought them back. And when they were out of sight of the court, they went toward a rock named Ezel, accessible from the wilderness and not far from the road. There David had hidden, straining his ears for the words that might mean life or death

Jonathan shot, as he walked along, and the boy, running ahead, picked up the arrows and brought them back. And when they were out of sight of the court, they went toward a rock named Ezel, accessible from the wilderness and not far from the road. There David had hidden, straining his ears for the words that might mean life or death

N.C. Wyeth

1929

The Courtship of Miles Standish, untitled headpiece illustration (surf crashing on rocks)

The Courtship of Miles Standish, untitled headpiece illustration (surf crashing on rocks)

N.C. Wyeth

1920

William M. Hekking

n.d.

Maxfield Parrish

1908

The Golden Maiden
The flames died suddenly away, and out of the vessel there sprang a wonderful image--the image of a beautiful maiden.

The Golden Maiden
The flames died suddenly away, and out of the vessel there sprang a wonderful image--the image of a beautiful maiden.

N.C. Wyeth

1912

It was the newest, strangest, most delightful, sternest, most wonderful thing in the world--the Iowa prairie

It was the newest, strangest, most delightful, sternest, most wonderful thing in the world--the Iowa prairie

N.C. Wyeth

1921

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