Alternate version of "Clever Peter and the Ogress" / All black with soot from head to foot

Alternate version of "Clever Peter and the Ogress" / All black with soot from head to foot
Alternate version of "Clever Peter and the Ogress" / All black with soot from head to foot

Alternate version of "Clever Peter and the Ogress" / All black with soot from head to foot

Date1890
Artist (American painter, illustrator, and author, 1863–1938)
Illustration CitationAlternate version for illustration in "Clever Peter and the Ogress," by Katharine Pyle, in St. Nicholas, 1890
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 8 13/16 × 6 3/16 in. (22.4 × 15.7 cm)
sheet: 11 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (29.5 × 19.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse
Object number1900-115
On View
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ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextKatharine Pyle wrote and illustrated this morality tale about the fate of truant boys who are captured by an ogress until Peter devises a way of escape. Although they resolve not to avoid school again, they are pleased to steal the ogress' "pies and ginger cakes."

The youngest child of the Pyle family, Katharine was prolific as both author and illustrator. At the turn of the twentieth century, many considered art an appropriate extension of women's "natural" talent for beautifying their surroundings, but there was still resistance to women as professional. The artist and illustrator Joseph Pennell offered Katharine Pyle as an example of why there was "no earthly reason why women should not be illustrators."

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