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

 

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Peacock shutters

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Accession Number: P27w15
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, partial watermark 'ORIG[INAL] TURKE[Y MILL], KE[NT]'
Size: 4 3/8 x 7 1/6" (112 x 179 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Peacock shutters

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Peacock shutters, I.S. Gardner Museum
Peacock shutters, I.S. Gardner Museum
Shutters in the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Shutters in the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room [YMSM 178] was at that time the dining room of the house of Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892) in Prince's Gate, London. Whistler did not have access to the room by this date, but may have had a photograph, or drawn the shutters from memory.

Last updated: 10th May 2021 by Margaret