Rea Irvin shaped the visual identity of The New Yorker more than any other single artist, even though he was never formally credited as its art editor. He designed the magazine's typeface, established its graphic sensibility, and in 1925 drew the top-hatted dandy known as Eustace Tilley for the very first cover. That image ran every February for nearly seven decades. The period originals here come from that tradition of refined, wit-driven American illustration.