Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1876 Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow Accession Number: GLAHA 46071 Medium: chalk and wash Support: brown wove paper, pricked for transfer Size: 1810 x 3892 mm (5' 11 ¼" x 12' 9 1/4") Signature: none Inscription:
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 584) as 'Cartoon of rich and poor 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).
Authored by Whistler
Whistler, James McNeill, Harmony in Blue and Gold. The Peacock Room, London, 1877.
Newspapers 1855-1905
Godwin, E. W., 'Notes on Mr. Whistler’s “Peacock Room” ', Daily Courier, Liverpool, 24 February 1877, pp. 118-19.
Journals 1855-1905
Anon., 'Notes and News', The Academy, vol. 10, no. 226, 2 September 1876, p. 249.
Anon., 'Mr J. A. McNeill Whistler's Decorative Work, the Peacock Room', Queen, 17 February 1877, p. 124.
Graves, Algernon, 'James Abbott McNeill Whistler', Printseller and Print Collector, vol. 1, August 1903, pp. 341-45.
Books on Whistler
Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 242-43.
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 202-09.
Catalogues 1906-Present
Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 118).
Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 31) 'Entwurf zu Harmonie in Blau und Gold: The Peacock Room'.
MacDonald, M. F., Whistler Pastels, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, 1984, p. 32.
Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 55-56, 65, repr. fig. 110 (not exhibited).
ホイスラー展. Whistler Exhibition in Japan, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Shizuoka, 1986 (cat. no. 48) repr. pp. 104-05.
Journals 1906-Present
Winter, John, and Elisabeth West FitzHugh, 'Some Technical Notes on Whistler’s “Peacock Room” ', Studies in Conservation, vol. 30, 1985, pp. 149-54, p. 153.
Websites
The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.