Ida Waugh (October 24, 1846 – January 25, 1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion, Amy Ella Blanchard.

[5] Her self-portrait and another painting, "Little Cosette" (1870), are in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, both donated by Mrs. John S. Haug in 1961.

[6] They were part of the exhibition "Women and Biography" in 2014, including: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Edith Emerson, Anne Minich, Catherine Mulligan, Mitzi Melnicoff, Alice Kent Stoddard, Aubrey Levinthal, Martha Armstrong, Mickayel Thurin, Edith Neff, Barbara Bullock, Gertrude Fisher-Fishman, Mary Cassatt, Millicent Krouse, Betty W. Hubbard, Helen Corson Hovenden.

[8][9] Rev J. Henry Smythe Jr., a University of Pennsylvania graduate who gained fame in 1904 at a Chicago convention by using a megaphone to ask for an ovation to President Theodore Roosevelt was one of the babies portrayed in the series by Ida Waugh, "Sunshine Babies" (1887); the firm A.D. Matthews' Sons reprinted them in 1907 with the help of the same Smythe to retrieve the original lithographs.

[17] In 1896 the portrait of Dr. Paul J. Sartain won the Norman W. Dodge prize at the National Academy of Design and was exhibited in 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition.

[1][8] Ida Waugh died on January 25, 1919, at her home in New York City, at 245 East 19th Street, and is buried next to her father at The Woodlands (Philadelphia).