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

 


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

Composition

Three Peacock Shutters, New York Public Library
Three Peacock Shutters, New York Public Library
Shutters in Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Shutters in Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

The composition closely matches the finished designs of the shutters of the Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room [YMSM 178].

Conservation History

The paper has an uneven edge along the bottom, where the notepaper was torn in half, the other half being Fighting Peacocks [M.0581].

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