Peter Newell's pictures and rhymes
Peter Newell's Pictures and Rhymes is a children's poetry book published in New York and London by Harper & Brothers in 1899, with verses by John Kendrick Bangs and drawings by Peter Newell. The pictures are soft grey wash and pen images of children in everyday moments, such as a girl leading a lamb, a child with a hat and a bunch of flowers, and a girl with a basket meeting an elderly gentleman. A designer might take from them the economical, gently humorous staging of small figures against plain backgrounds.
