Slovenly Peter, or, Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks : illustrations colored by hand after the original style
Slovenly Peter is a 1919 Philadelphia reprint by John C. Winston of Heinrich Hoffmann's German cautionary verse for children, here with hand-coloured illustrations after the original. The pictures are loose, caricatured scenes of naughty children and grotesque figures, drawn with bold black outlines and flat watercolour washes that a designer could borrow for playful, mischievous character work.
