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

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Original artwork for Prince Caspian: "half man and half wolf... leaping upon a boy about his own age". Published within C. S. Lewis's second volume in the Chronicles of Narnia series, Prince Caspian, on page 151. The illustration is from Chapter 12 ("Sorcery and Sudden Vengeance"), in which Edmund, Peter, and Trumpkin arrive as Prince Caspian and Doctor Cornelius are attacked by "a Hag and a Wer-Wolf"."The next minute or so was very confused. There was an animal roaring, a clash of steel; the boys and Trumpkin rushed in; Peter had a glimpse of a horrible, grey, gaunt creature, half man and half wolf, in the very act of leaping upon a boy about his own age, and Edmund saw a badger and a Dwarf rolling on the floor in a sort of cat fight".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 the illustrations and wrote "I showed them to my friends whose polite comment was that they reduced my text to a commentary on the drawings" (Scull & Hammond, p. 112). Baynes became "Tolkien's illustrator of choice" (Scull & Hammond, p. 112), and she would later work on The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Smith of Wootton Major and a number of Tolkien's posthumous works. It was the collaboration between Tolkien and Baynes that led to her introduction to C. S. Lewis. As described by Scull & Hammond, "her most famous work... is her art for the seven volumes of the Chronicles of Narnia".

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