Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1876 Collection: New York Public Library Accession Number: MEZAP Medium: pen and dark brown ink Support: cream laid paper Size: 112 x 177 mm, folded (4 3/8 x 6 15/16") Signature: butterfly in central panel Inscription: none
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 580) as 'Three Peacock Shutters'.
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (room, cat. no. 178).
Journals 1855-1905
Anon., 'Notes and News', The Academy, vol. 10, no. 226, 2 September 1876, p. 249.
Monographs
Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 218, repr. fig. 5.27.
Catalogues 1906-Present
Reff, Theodore, and Allen Staley (eds), From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World, Columbia University, New York, 1971 (cat. no. 25), "Two Sketches of the Peacock Room ", repr. pl. 64.
Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 32, 186 (cat. no. 106) repr. p. 32.