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

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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

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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

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, and may have drawn this from memory.

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