Tag Archives: Peter Newell

Peter Newell’s Fairyland

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, Fairyland. Oil on panel. 12 x 16 in. Signed lower right Heritage Auctions.  

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Mother Goose Dusts the Moon

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, cover for Harper’s Young People: An Illustrated Weekly, vol. VL No. 279, 3 March 1885. For more moon dusting see Aliquis’s The Flight of the Old Woman Who was Tossed Up in a Basket.

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Peter Newell, The Educated Love Bird

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, “The Educated Love Bird.” The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. XXII no. 6, September 1905, p. 715.

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Peter Newell, The Wolf and the Lamb

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, “The Wolf and the Lamb.” The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. XXII no. 4, July 1905, p. 435.

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Peter Newell, The Literal Hen

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, “The Literal Hen. A Fable for Certain Folk” The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. XXII no. 2, May 1905, p. 194.

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Peter Newell, The Educated Rat

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, “The Educated Rat.” The Metropolitan Magazine, vol. XXII no. 1, April 1905, p. 97.

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Peter Newell, A Game of Croquet without Rules

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

Harper’s Young People, June 30, 1885.

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Gustave Verbeek’s Cruel Tales and the Nonsense Tradition

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

[I wrote this short article for The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek: The Complete Sunday Comics 1903-1905, edited by Peter Maresca, foreword by Martin Gardner. Palo Alto, CA: Sunday Press Books, 2009, where it appeared under the title “Verbeek’s Loony Lyrics … Continue reading →

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Alfred Z. Baker’s Images à renversement

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Antoine Sausverd over at Töpfferiana has unearthed some contributions by Alfred Zantzinger Baker to the French children’s magazine La jeunesse illustré, 1906-1907 (Gallica). I have now created a set of pages which, besides providing information on Baker and his toy … Continue reading →

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Polly Sleepyhead Passes Through a Small Cyclone

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Another late strip from Peter Newell‘s series Polly Sleepyhead; it is from 1907, but I do not know the date:

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