 The magazine's first cover, of a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, was drawn by Irvin; the dandy replaced at the last minute a drawing of theater curtains revealing the skyline of Manhattan.The gentleman on the original cover is referred to as "Eustace Tilley," a character created for "The New Yorker" by Corey Ford.When he had taken the job at "The New Yorker", Irvin had assumed that the magazine would fold after a few issues, but his work would appear on 169 covers of "The New Yorker" between 1925 and 1958), including, for example, the piece known as "The Unity of the Allied Nations".