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Kidd on the Deck of the "Adventure Galley"
Howard Pyle1902/1902
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE, United States
This illustration accompanies an article about Captain William Kidd, the late 17th century Scottish captain of the Adventure Galley, a ship commissioned by the English crown as a privateer - a private warship authorized by its government to plunder enemy vessels during wartime. When The English government judged some of Kidd's actions as outside maritime law, he was hanged as a pirate in 1701.
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- Title: Kidd on the Deck of the "Adventure Galley"
- Creator Lifespan: 1853/1911
- Creator Nationality: American
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Florence, Italy
- Creator Birth Place: Wilmington, DE
- Date: 1902/1902
- Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: H P (LRC)
- Physical Dimensions: w10.75 x h16.75 in (Complete)
- Illustrator: Howard Pyle
- Illustration Citation: The True Captain Kidd, by John D. Champlin, Jr., in Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1902
- Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 1912
- Provenance: Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.
- Type: Paintings
- Rights: Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.
- External Link: http://emuseum.delart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:616
- Medium: Oil on canvas
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