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Peter Newell’s Jeff Pettingill at the Exposition

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

After the series devoted to the Johnson’s Family visit to the World’s Columbian Exposition of  1893 (now completed with the missing eighth number), Peter Newell was sent to the Exposition Universelle Internationale in Paris in 1900 and produced another picture … Continue reading →

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Mark Twain, The New Planet, Illustrated by Peter Newell

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

THE NEW PLANET (The astronomers at Hanard have observed “perturbations In the orbital movement of Neptune,” such as might be caused by the presence of a new planet in the vicinity.) I BELIEVE in the new planet. I was eleven … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell’s Signor Marconi

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Marco Graziosi
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Benjamin Rabier’s Bullets

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Antoine Sausverd of Töpfferiana has a very interesting post on a pair of strips by Benjamin Rabier which appear to have been influenced by Peter Newell: “Trajectoire,” a single-page story from La Jeunesse illustrée (no. 700, 11 February 1917) follows the … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, A Matter of Direction

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s Round Table, vol. 18, 5 November 1896, p. 24.

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Peter Newell, The Policeman & the Match

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s Round Table, vol. 18, 15 June 1897, p. 888.

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Peter Newell, The Johnson Family at the Columbian Exposition (1893)

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

One of the most annoying aspects of Peter Newell’s production was his frequent reliance on racial stereotypes, which often becomes racism tout court; here is what Bridget R. Cooks writes in “Fixing Race: Visual Representations of African-Americans att the World’s … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell and Edward Lear

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Equally individual [as Stockton’s article on A.B. Frost mentioned in the previous review] is Mr. Peter Newell, who has just published a collection of his quaintly illustrated nonsense verses, under the title of Peter Newell’s Pictures and Rhymes. The world … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, The Minstrel

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s New Monthly, August 1894, p. 486.

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Peter Newell, A Sentimental Poem

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

If I should write a sentiment, The best I could invent, ‘Twould not be worth a dime, I fear — That is — a cent, I ment. Peter Newell Peter Newell, Autograph Poem Signed, “Peter Newell,” one page, March 15, … Continue reading →

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