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

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M.0991
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

Whistler drew the Peacock shutters about 1884/1885 and gave it to Robert Goodloe Harper Pennington (1854 or 1855-d. 1920) , who gave it to Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) .

Peacock shutters, I.S. Gardner Museum
Peacock shutters, I.S. Gardner Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 991).

Last updated: 10th May 2021 by Margaret