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

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M.1603
Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 91729533
Medium: crayon
Support: off-white paper with partial watermark ‘The Hanover / [star] Note Paper / WCSC ... / London’
Size: 227 x 178 mm (8 15/16 x 7")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: ‘Drawn by Whistler for Frank Miles’ in an unknown hand

Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks

Provenance

  • ca 1900: given by the artist to George Francis (Frank) Miles (1852-1894) .
  • 1950: bought by the Pennell Fund, Library of Congress, 25 January 1950 (500024).

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab' [M.1602] may have come from the same unidentified source.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret