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

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M.0582
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

Composition

Sketches of the Peacock Room; (a) south wall and shutters, The Hunterian
Sketches of the Peacock Room; (a) south wall and shutters, The Hunterian
Shutters in Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Shutters in Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Sketches of the Peacock Room; (b) roof and wall panelling, The Hunterian
Sketches of the Peacock Room; (b) roof and wall panelling, The Hunterian
Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Sketches of the Peacock Room; (c) pendant and cove, The Hunterian
Sketches of the Peacock Room; (c) pendant and cove, The Hunterian
Sketches of the Peacock Room; (; (d) fighting peacocks, The Hunterian
Sketches of the Peacock Room; (; (d) fighting peacocks, The Hunterian
Panel of Fighting Peacocks in Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Panel of Fighting Peacocks in Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

These drawings were studies for details in Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room [YMSM 178].

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 582).

Conservation History

The sheets were removed from a press-cutting album in Glasgow University Library and transferred to the Hunterian.

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret