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

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                    Peacock shutters, I.S. Gardner Museum
Peacock shutters, I.S. Gardner Museum

                    Shutters in the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Shutters 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, but may have had a photograph, or drawn the shutters from memory.

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