Peggy Bacon, American, 1895 to 1987, illustration drypoint on paper, Hatty, 1921. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled in pencil, lower left. Framed. Additionally inscribed, on the backside. The copy of this illustration at the Met Museum. Peggy Bacon was a painter, portrait painter, caricaturist, illustrator, lithographer, writer, art educator. Peggy Bacon studied with John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Her sharp wit was evident in her contributions to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair as well as in the more than 60 books she illustrated, including several publications of her own short stories and poetry. American Graphic Art prints, Illustration and Collectibles.