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Peter Newell
Peter Newell

Peter Newell

American, 1862 – 1924
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Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell was an American artist and writer. He created picture books and illustrated new editions of many children's books. A native of McDonough County, Illinois, Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Scribner's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Judge, and other publications.

He later wrote and illustrated several popular children's books, such as Topsys and Turvys (1893), a collection of poems and images which could be viewed upside-down or right-side-up; The Hole Book (1908), which had a literal hole at the center of each page to indicate the path of a bullet; and The Slant Book (1910), which took the shape of a rhomboid and told the story of a baby carriage careening down a hill.

Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll. He also created a comic strip serial, The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead, which debuted in the New York Herald in 1905. He died in Little Neck, New York in 1924.

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Sing a song of sixpence…

Sing a song of sixpence…

Peter Newell (American, 1862 – 1924)
Illustration
With a faint smile lighting up his gentle, foolish face, he began..

With a faint smile lighting up his gentle, foolish face, he began..

Peter Newell (American, 1862 – 1924)
Illustration
The bicyclers and three other farces by John Kendrick Bangs

The bicyclers and three other farces by John Kendrick Bangs (1896)

Peter Newell (American, 1862 – 1924)
Posters
The Pursuit of the House Boat

The Pursuit of the House Boat (1896)

Peter Newell (American, 1862 – 1924)
Illustration
Fairyland

Fairyland

Peter Newell (American, 1862 – 1924)
Mythology
The Johnson Family in Cairo Street

The Johnson Family in Cairo Street (1893)

Peter Newell (American, 1862 – 1924)
Drawings
That Oldest Boy

That Oldest Boy (1887)

Peter Newell (American, 1862 – 1924)
Drawings
Tipsy Cupid

Tipsy Cupid

Peter Newell (American, 1862 – 1924)
Drawings
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