Looking for the full version of the PHB1 cover painting

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I saw it a while back: The iconic temple scene with the adventurers piling up lizardman bodies after a battle, under the watchful jewel eyes of the idol, but with no cover text obscuring the original painting.

But now, my Google Fu has totally failed me.

Does anyone have a link to this original image?

Thanks.

 

[DM_Wannabe]

This isn't the "original" painting used on the book. It looks like someone did a reproduction, but it's the full picture with the portion that wraps around to the make up the back up the PHB. Right now my Google-fu is failing me too. I'll keep looking to see what I can find.

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[Henry]

The artist is Dave trampier, but past that my google-fu has failed too. I suspect the full original art was never printed, and was lost to time, to either Tramp's intentional drop off the grid, or to TSRs demise.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This isn't the "original" painting used on the book. It looks like someone did a reproduction, but it's the full picture with the portion that wraps around to the make up the back up the PHB. Right now my Google-fu is failing me too. I'll keep looking to see what I can find.

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Thanks. That's likely as good as we're likely to get.

 

[grodog]

If you have a copy of the AD&D DM Screen, there's a nice image on there. You can also use this:

And IIRC, Paul Stormberg's huge 8+ screen DM Screen on Dragonsfoot might include the cover images as well in its download (it may be just the charts too---I don't recall offhand): http://www.dragonsfoot.org/php4/archive.php?sectioninit=CS&fileid=228&watchfile=0