Figure 1.--This is the scene that most remember from Trasure Island. It is Jim Hawkins climatic fights with Israel Hands. The illustation is one of the classic N.C. Wyeth illustrations.

There have been many editions of Treasure Island published. Several illustrators have worked on these editions. The greatest illustrator who worked on Treasure Island was of course N.C. Wyeth. He did wonderful illustrations of a whole list of adventure stories, including Treasure Island. I remember that the edition I read as a boy had the illustrations by Wyeth and it is him images that still stick with me. We do not yet have information on other illustrators that have worked on this marvelous adventure story.

N.C. Wyeth (United States, 18??- )

The greatest illustrator who worked on Treasure Island was of course N.C. Wyeth. He did wonderful illustrations of a whole list of adventure stories, including Treasure Island. I remember that the edition that I read as a boy had the illustrations by Wyeth and it is him images that still stick with me. We do not yet have information on other illustrators that have worked on this marvelous adventure story. N.C. Wyeth is perhaps the most famous of all American book illustrators. He illustrated boys' adventure books, but did realtively few illustrations of children. His illustrations are marvelous. I remember them in books I read as a boy in the 1940s. I remember in particular Black Arrow and The Boy's King Arthur. He had a way of drawing the most amazing people and events, but making them look very realistic and ordinary. [Michaelis]

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Sources

Michaelis, David. N.C. Wyeth: A Biography (Harper Perennial).

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