The New Yorker

== Eustace Tilley ==
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[[File:Alfred D’Orsay.png|thumb|upright=0.7|right|Image of [[Alfred d'Orsay]] (1801–1852), published by [[James Baillie Fraser|James Fraser]] (1783–1856)]]

The magazine's first cover illustration, a [[dandy]] peering at a butterfly through a [[monocle]], was drawn by [[Rea Irvin]], the magazine's first art editor, based on an 1834 caricature of the then [[Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count d'Orsay|Count d'Orsay]] that appeared as an illustration in the 11th edition of the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 29, 2010 |title=Eustace Tilley |url=http://hoc.uspoc.us/2010/eustace-tilley/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817123844/http://hoc.uspoc.us/2010/eustace-tilley/ |archive-date=August 17, 2011 |access-date=March 29, 2010}}</ref> The gentleman on the original cover, now known as Eustace Tilley, is a character created for ''The New Yorker'' by [[Corey Ford]]. The hero of a series titled "The Making of a Magazine", which began on the inside front cover of the August 8 issue that first summer, Tilley was a younger man than the figure on the original cover. His [[top hat]] was of a newer style, without the curved brim. He wore a [[morning coat]] and striped [[formal trousers]]. Ford borrowed Eustace Tilley's last name from an aunt—he had always found it vaguely humorous. "Eustace" was selected by Ford for [[Phonaesthetics|euphony]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kunkel |first=Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/geniusindisguise00kunk |title=Genius in Disguise |date=June 1996 |publisher=Carroll & Graf Publishers |isbn=9780786703234 |page=512 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

The character has become a kind of mascot for ''The New Yorker'', frequently appearing in its pages and on promotional materials. Traditionally, Irvin's original Tilley cover illustration is used every year on the issue closest to the anniversary date of February 21, though on several occasions a newly drawn variation has been substituted.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Mouly |first=Françoise |date=February 16, 2015 |title=Cover Story: Nine for Ninety |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-nine-ninety |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150804074621/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-nine-ninety |archive-date=August 4, 2015 |access-date=July 31, 2015}}</ref>