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

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M.0992
Fighting Peacocks

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Accession Number: P27w16
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream laid paper, partial watermark '[ORIG]INAL [TURK]EY MILL, [K]ENT'.
Size: 4 3/8 x 7 1/6" (112 x 179 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Fighting Peacocks

Whistler drew the Fighting Peacocks 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) .

Fighting Peacocks, I.S. Gardner Museum
Fighting Peacocks, I.S. Gardner Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 992).

Last updated: 10th May 2021 by Margaret