Yankee Doodle: An Old Friend in a New Dress
Yankee Doodle: An Old Friend in a New Dress
Written by Howard Pyle
New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1881
9.6" x 10.6"
Kerlan Collection, Children's Literature Research Collections
University of Minnesota Libraries
Howard Pyle, who mentored N. C. Wyeth and Jessie Willcox Smith, among many others, and is generally considered to be the "father of American illustration," here pays homage to Caldecott with an unmistakable nod to the comic hijinks of the latter artist's Three Jovial Huntsmen.