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M.0193
'Nulla dies sine linea': (a) Monk writing; (b) An old man in a nightcap reading; (c) Whistler changing clothes with a 'Pleb'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1855
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.85-87
Medium: pencil, pen, black and brown ink
Support: off-white wove paper, journal
Size: 8 5/16" x 11 3/8" (210 x 290 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: (a) ' "Nulla dies sine linea".' ; (b) [journal entries:] '... a spluttering, rattling, unsteady chuckle at a delightful bit of rascallity is not to be "held in" by a pair of loosened, rickety, worn out jaws!- ...' ; (c) '...my "grey changed for blue" or rather for a buff coloured shanghai, which had been brought by a newly arrived "Pleb", of fashionable pretensions, and in return for which I made him happy with my "shell jacket"... '

Provenance

1853/1854: given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878);
1878-1970: passed by family descent to his daughter Celeste Marguerite Winans (Mrs G. M. Hutton) (1855-1925), her daughter Lucette Marguerite Hutton, Mrs H. A. Prichard (1885-1957), and grand-daughters, Margaret Celeste Prichard, Mrs T. A. Buell (1908-1970), Helen Lucette Prichard, Mrs J. M. King (1913-2005), and Sybil Agnes Prichard, Mrs E. G. Walk (1915-2009);
1970: given by Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

Not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 14th March 2021 by Margaret

M.0193'Nulla dies sine linea': (a) Monk writing; (b) An old man in a nightcap reading; (c) Whistler changing clothes with a 'Pleb'

Provenance

Exhibitions

M.0193
'Nulla dies sine linea': (a) Monk writing; (b) An old man in a nightcap reading; (c) Whistler changing clothes with a 'Pleb'