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

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Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876
Collection: British Museum, London
Accession Number: 1958,0208.3-36
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream laid paper with watermark "WHATMAN"
Size: 245 x 198 mm (9 5/8 x 7 13/16")
Signature: none
Inscription: r: engraved heading '30, Lombard Street, London, E.C.'; BRITISH MUSEUM stamp

The Peacock designs ... date from 1876, when Whistler was working on Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room [YMSM 178] for Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892).

Peacock designs; (a) feathers on panel; (b) plan of ceiling, British Museum
Peacock designs; (a) feathers on panel; (b) plan of ceiling, British Museum
Peacock designs; (c) feathers on panels; (d) feathers on panels and ceiling coffers, British Museum
Peacock designs; (c) feathers on panels; (d) feathers on panels and ceiling coffers, British Museum

The drawings are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 579).

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