"SOFT-EYES STOOD A LITTLE WAY OFF WATCHING IT". HARRISON CADY ORIGINAL REDDY FOX ILLUSTRATION FOR PETER RABBIT'S "BEDTIME STORIES". January 9, 1954, pen and ink, 6" x 7", signed "H. Cady". No. 13114.

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Walter Harrison Cady (1877–1970) was an American illustrator and author, best known for his Peter Rabbit comic strip which he wrote and drew for 28 years. Harrison was 18 when he moved to New York City and within a year found work as an illustrator with the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper. His salary of $10 a week made it possible for him to support his mother; the two lived in a Greenwich Village cold-water flat. His income increased considerably after he joined Life as staff artist and cartoonist. This led to a long career as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, as well as numerous children's books, featuring both fantastic and realistic animal illustrations. Cady's Peter Rabbit comic strip, which was based on Thornton Burgess' Peter Cottontail stories (as opposed to Beatrix Potter's version) was launched by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate on August 15, 1920. He continued to write and draw the strip for almost three decades. Cady had a long association with Burgess, illustrating the writer's books.

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