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"Nincompoopiana," Illustration for Punch
Inscriptions
inscribed in brown ink, on carpet: du Maurier; inscribed, in brown ink, lower margin: Nincompoopians / (Surfeited with excesses of Cultchah," Prigsby and his friends are now going in for extreme simplicity)/ Prigsby - I consider the words of "Little Boy Blue" finer than anything Shelley evah wrote!" Recites them) /Muffington - "Quite so! And Schubert nevah composed anything quite so precious as the Tune!" (Tries to hum it)/ (Chorus: "How supreme!"; inscribed, top margin, in graphite, very worn: [same as lower inscription]; inscribed, upper left margin in graphite: 20 (encircled); inscribed, upper left margin in graphite: 20 (encircled); inscribed, left margin,and on bust, in brown ink: ANTINOUS; inscribed, upper right margin, in brown ink: ½ page / Sorry to be so late - I send you cornhill [?] drawing - send tomorrow / (Tuesday) at 1 P.M. for socials / Initials / I write to you for proof of almanac legends, but have not / received them. Please send them.; inscribed, center right margin, in graphite: Punch / ½ Page; inscribed, lower right margin, in brown ink: Dec. 20th 79 / 20 gs.
Provenance
January 7, 1985: [J. S. Maas & Co Ltd, 15a Clifford Street, New Bond Street, London] ?-2013: Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH December 2, 2013-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier (British, 1834–1896)
- Date
- c. 1879
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with touches of graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.2 x 35.5 cm (9 15/16 x 14 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
- Accession no.
- 2013.254
More by George Du Maurier in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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