Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Toddler T-Shirt

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 tha...

I have been a visual artist since the 1960s. I'm originally from Orange County, New York, located in the Metro New York City region where I was raised on the working dairy farm [Ogden Farm] which my family founded in 1832. As a young man I spent many long hours working in gardens, crop fields, pastures and in barns with livestock. I grew up surrounded by antiques. I graduated from Bucknell University where I majored in art which included a semester in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. After Bucknell I studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I have lived throughout the U.S. [including three years in Sante Fe, New Mexico], in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America. I now reside in the 19th century...