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Friar Tuck carries Robin Hood across a river. Frontispiece illustration by Howard Pyle. Pyle had been submitting illustrated poems and fairy tales to New York publications since 1876, and had met with success. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood was the first novel he attempted.
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Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator, painter, and author, primarily of books for young people.He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.
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Download as PDF; Printable version ... Robin Hood and the Tinker (Roud 3982, Child 127) is an English-language folk song ... Howard Pyle included this story in his ...
In Howard Pyle's influential novel The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (published in 1883), he is shown as a crude, coarse outlaw, known for his cruelty and murderous habits. [11] The chapter closely follows the plot of the ballad.
Frontispiece of Howard Pyle's 1883 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood showing tunic and leggings approximating a Lincoln green shade [1]. Lincoln green is the colour of dyed woollen cloth formerly originating in Lincoln, England, a major cloth town during the high Middle Ages.
Howard Pyle retold this story in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood with the hero as Little John; he used trickery to get the three young men away, and his bow broke, resulting in his own capture. [3] Robin Hood, having just killed Guy of Gisbourne, disguises himself as Guy to carry out the rescue.