BAYNES, Pauline (illus.); LEWIS, C.S.

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Original artwork for Prince Caspian: "It was not a man's face but a badger's". Published within C. S. Lewis's second volume in the Chronicles of Narnia series, Prince Caspian, on page 62. The illustration is from Chapter 5 ("Caspian's Adventure in the Mountains"), in which Trufflehunter the badger offers Prince Caspian a drink, watched by the two dwarfs, Nikabrik and Trumpkin."'I shall give it a drink,' said the first voice... A dark shape approached the bed... The shape somehow seemed wrong. The face that bent towards him seemed wrong too. He got the impression that it was very hairy and very long nosed, and there were odd white patches on each side of it... A cupful of something sweet and hot was set to his lips and he drank. At that moment one of the others poked the fire. A blaze sprang up and Caspian almost screamed with the shock as the sudden light revealed the face that was looking into his own. It was not a man's face but a badger's, though larger and friendlier and more intelligent than the face of any badger he had seen before... He saw, too, that he was on a bed of heather, in a cave. By the fire sat two little bearded men, so much wilder and shorter and hairier and thicker than Doctor Cornelius that he knew them at once for real Dwarfs, ancient Dwarfs with not a drop of human blood in their veins".In 1948 Pauline Baynes (1922-2008) was commissioned by Tolkien's publishers to provide illustrations for the author's Farmer Giles of Ham. Tolkien was delighted with th

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