Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Sketches of the Peacock Room; (a) south wall and shutters; (b) roof and wall panelling; (c) pendant and cove; (d) fighting peacocks

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46070
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: double sheet of off-white laid paper, partial watermark 'Parkins / Royal F...', removed from an album of press-cuttings
Size: 319 x 203 mm (12 9/16 x 8")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
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Sketches of the Peacock Room; (a) south wall and shutters; (b) roof and wall panelling; (c) pendant and cove; (d) fighting peacocks

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 582) as 'Sketches of the Peacock Room; (a) south wall and shutters; (b) roof and wall panelling; (c) pendant and cove; (d) fighting peacocks'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (room, cat. no. 178).

Books on Whistler

  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 242, fig. 6.8.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret