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Response: seeing and reading N. C. Wyeth and Robert Louis Stevenson.(Critical essay)

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From: The Art Bulletin
Date: 20060301
Author:DeLue, Rachael Ziady

Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, first published in 1886, tells the story of the young and newly orphaned David Balfour, who, the rightful heir to the House of Shaws, falls victim to his miserly uncle's treachery and finds himself an unwilling passenger on the Covenant, a ship bound from Scotland for the American colonies. Early in the voyage David joins forces with another passenger, Alan Breck Stewart, a Scottish Highlander and exiled Jacobite (called such because he participated in the 1745-46 Scottish rebellion against the British throne); the two overpower the Covenant's ...

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