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

Composition

Fighting Peacocks, I.S. Gardner Museum
Fighting Peacocks, I.S. Gardner Museum
Panel of Fighting Peacocks in The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Panel of Fighting Peacocks in The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

A drawing, possibly from memory, of the large painting on the end wall of Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room [YMSM 178].

Hadley considered the drawings were made in preparation for the decoration, but this is unlikely. 1

Notes:

1: Hadley 1968 [more] , pp. 37-41, no. 18.

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