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Tarzan. Tarzan crossed the open plain before the city of Bakhir and approached the main gate – Vintage Wall Art

Tarzan. Tarzan crossed the open plain before the city of Bakhir and approached the main gate — historic drawing
Tarzan. Tarzan crossed the open plain before the city of Bakhir and approached the main gate. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Tarzan. Tarzan crossed the open plain before the city of Bakhir and approached the main gate, preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Tarzan. Tarzan crossed the open plain before the city of Bakhir and approached the main gate

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This drawing shows Tarzan crossing an open plain toward the main gate of Bakhir, a scene rendered in India and red inks over pencil with opaque white highlights on ivory board. The original art was made for newspaper reproduction, and the printed overlay indicates the sheet was prepared for the printing process. Edgar Rice Burroughs created the jungle hero in pulp fiction in 1912, and by the 1940s his adventures had become a staple of Sunday newspaper comics. The sheet was later included in the Smithsonian Institution's 1971 exhibition "The Art of the Comic Strip," which helped establish comics as a subject for serious study.

Medium1 drawing : India and red inks over pencil, with printed overlay, and opaque white on ivory heavy 72.3 x 55.6 cm. (sheet)
Genre1971; Smithsonian Institution Exhibition Service, The Art of the Comic Strip
Notes1944 Dec. 17 [publication date]
SubjectsSuperheroes--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,106 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169490

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