Howard Pyle illustration for "The Story of Sir Launcelot" 1907: framed original illustration
Launcelot's Ladies: The Lady Layonesse Head Piece For The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by the artist New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1907. IMAGE INFORMATION Image Size: H 9.125” x W 6.625” Matted & Framed: H 15.125” x W 12.625” Framed Price: $225.00 Packaging and shipping approximately $25.00 HP wrote and illustrated his four-volume interpretation of the Arthurian legend between 1903 and 1910. In these four beautiful books, the master artist/storyteller excerpted and expanded tales of King Arthur and the Knights of his Roundtable that Sir Thomas Malory had collected during the 15th century and William Caxton had published in 1485. HP retold these stories in The Book of King Arthur (1903), The Book of the Champions of the Round Table (1905), The Book of Sir Launcelot and his Companions (1907), and The Book of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur (1910). Being a man of faith and purpose, and being at the height of his