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

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 178) as 'Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks'.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1603).

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Filthy Lucre: Painters, Patrons, and the Peacock Room , Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 2015 (no. cat. no.).

Websites

  • Library of Congress website at http://www.loc.gov.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret