Ballantyne The Brave

Do you know if Ballantyne or Henty drew pictures for any of their books? I love to draw, and I really appreciate it when an author draws pictures for his own books. You get to see what the author imagines his characters and places to look like, rather than someone else's imagination. I have enjoyed the gallery of drawings on your website heaps! Thank-you and God bless, -Julia

Julia, Henty, to my knowledge did not do any illustrations. But, Ballantyne did illustrate many of his own books. In fact, the majority of the images in the Ballantyne image gallery were done by R.M.B. You are absolutely right about the author's perspective coming through his drawings. Last year I wrote an article to analyze Ballantyne's illustrations, it has some more information. I hope this answered your question. -JTP

"Drawings"

January 26, 2009 | Permalink