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Pictures overlaid over a French poster of The Black Pirate (Le Pirate Noir)
Top Row (l. to r.)
- Abner Dalrymple - 1887 Pittsburgh Alleghenys from a trade card (I thought it would be funny to include an old pic of a Pittsburgh Pirate, butit turns out they didn't change their name to the Pirates until 1890 - oh well!)
- Billie Dove as Princess Isobel in the movie "The Black Pirate" 1926
- Douglas Fairbanks as The Duke of Arnoldo - The Black Pirate in the movie of the same name 1926
- Mitred Pirate - scan from a copyright-free design book
- Edward Trelawny (ca. 1810) - a privateer captain by his own account. At that time, he was married to Zela Trelawny who stayed with him aboard ship, saving his life by firing a carronade when he was ambushed. She died by poison from a jealous rival. His account, if true would certainly make her a candidate as a Pirate Bride. There are those who dispute some of Trelawny's accounts of his early years. - This image from a painting by Joseph Severn
- Blackbeard - Captain Edward Teach (1680 - 1718) This engraving is from around 1736
- Piet Heyn - Dutch -admiral for the Dutch West India Company in 1628 as a privateer, his country at war with Spain, he captured the Spanish treasure fleet, the largest treasure seized in the Caribbean..
- Robert Rich , 2nd Earl of Warwick - funded privateer expeditions against the Spanish from painting by Daniel Mytens (upper right of Piet Heyn)
- Howell Davis (scanned from a sticker book) - Welsh Pirate in 1718
Bottom Row
- Terry Lee (Terry & The Pirates) Comic strip series from 1934 to 1997. Okay so Terry wasn't a pirate but he ran into them quite a bit. The series was created by cartoonist Milton Caniff..
- Two unknown pirates from sticker book
- Two soldiers - Painting of the Defense of Cadiz against Sir Edward Cecil, painted by Francisco de Zurbarán - Image Source
- Long John Silver - from a painting by NC Wyeth
- ??? - Help, I lost my notes and I can't remember where this knife wielding film pirate is ... May be Anders Randolf as the Pirate Leader in The Black Pirate
- Han Solo & Chewbacca - Cantina scene Star Wars
We're open to suggestions for other pirate pictures? Please let us know