# Howard Pyle *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 11 Dec 2007* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Recursive Loop *11 Dec 2007, 19:07* Greetings: Who did the cover for "Pirate Freedom" (still haven't made it to the bookstore, drat it)? The reason I ask is because I just picked up a second-hand copy of "Howard Pyle", a "coffee table" book published in 1975. The style looks a lot like the thumbnails of PF I've seen, so I'm wondering if that cover artist used Pyle as a inspiration. FPK3 --- ### David Duffy *11 Dec 2007, 21:28 · in reply to Recursive Loop* > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Recursive Loop wrote: > Greetings: > > Who did the cover for "Pirate Freedom" (still haven't made it to the bookstore, drat it)? > > The reason I ask is because I just picked up a second-hand copy of "Howard Pyle", a "coffee table" > book published in 1975. The style looks a lot like the thumbnails of PF I've seen, so I'm > wondering if that cover artist used Pyle as a inspiration. > > FPK3 David Grove, the same guy who did _SoS_. The cover does not look much like any Howard Pyle I've ever seen. The internal illustrations will remind you, unsurprisingly, of the style he used for _SoS_. They are less "finished" than those in classic illustrated books for boys, but cover all the standard scenes from the life of a pirate ;) I was going to write that David Grove is an OK nautical artist, but a closer look makes me think that some of the sail plans are a little idealized viz Chapter 20. Cheers, David Duffy. ---