Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

by Peter Ogden

Title

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

Artist

Peter Ogden

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Painting - Chromolithograph

Description

This is a restored copy of the cover of Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs published in 1918. The illustration is by Clinton Pettee, 1832-1937.
Tarzan is the only son of British aristocrats who were shipwrecked on the west African coast by mutineers. Tarzan's mother died when he was a small child and his father was murdered by Kerchak, head of an ape tribe that adopted Tarzan.
After the death of his parents Tarzan became a wild child living with his ape tribe, the Mangani, Great Apes of a mysterious unknown species. Tarzan's Mangari ape mother is Kala. Edgar Burroughs later wrote stories of Tarzan's youth in his sixth Tarzan book, Jungle Tales of Tarzan.
Tarzan is his Mangari name. Tarzan's British name was John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke (per Burroughs in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle; Earl of Greystoke and in the 1984 movie Greystoke). Edgar Burroughs's story teller in Tarzan of the Apes recounts that Greystroke and Clayton are assumed names suggesting that, in the fictional universe where Tarzan lives, he might have some other real name.

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November 28th, 2019

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