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

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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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