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

 

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

Composition

Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Shutters of the Peacock Room with peacock decoration, Freer Gallery of Art
Shutters of the Peacock Room with peacock decoration, Freer Gallery of Art
The Rich Peacock and the Poor Peacock, mural on south wall of the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
The Rich Peacock and the Poor Peacock, mural on south wall of the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

A memory sketch of Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room [YMSM 178]'

Technique

It is on similar paper to Sketches of 'The Gold Scab' [M.1602].

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret