Little Nemo in Slumberland: "I don't like this, one little tiny bit, not one tiny weenie bit", 1906

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series Title

Little Nemo in Slumberland

Medium

pen and black ink and brush and black ink over graphite on two joined sheets of paperboard

Dimensions

image: 70.49 x 54.61 cm (27 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.)

sheet: 72.39 x 56.2 cm (28 1/2 x 22 1/8 in.)
top section: 31.12 x 57.15 cm (12 1/4 x 22 1/2 in.)
bottom section: 41 x 22.5 cm (16 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Richard S. Zeisler Fund

Accession Number

2009.28.1

Artists / Makers

Winsor McCay (artist) American, 1869(?) - 1934

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

lower right in pen and black ink: Winsor McCay; lower center printed in black: (COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE NEW YORK HERALD CO.); upper right edge in blue colored pencil: October 14, 1906; lower right in graphite: Comic Sec / Oct , 14; center right verso in blue ball-point pen: 40 (circled); lower right verso in blue ball-point pen: 41 (circled); lower right in graphite by unknown hand: Moniz

Marks and Labels

on verso two address labels: Mr. Ray W. Moniz / 343 Depew Street / Peekskill, N.Y. 10566

Provenance

by descent to Ray Winsor Moniz (grandson of the artist); by descent to Margaret Ann Moniz and Ann Winsor Moniz, Highland Falls, NY; purchased by NGA, 2008

Associated Names

Moniz, Margaret Ann

Bibliography

1976: O'Sullivan, Judith Roberts. The Art of Winsor Z. McCay (1971-1934). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1976, Vol. II, no. 856.

2000: Winsor McCay, Little Nemo 1905-1914, (Introduction by Bill Blackbeard). Germany: Taschen, 2000, no. 61.