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

 

M.0989
The walls of the Peacock Room

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Accession Number: P27w14
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream laid paper, watermark 'ORIGINAL/ TURKEY MILL/ KENT', f.s.
Size: 7 x 8 15/16" (178 x 227 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

The walls of the Peacock Room

Composition

The walls of the Peacock Room, I. S. Gardner Museum
The walls of the Peacock Room, I. S. Gardner Museum
N.E. corner of the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
N.E. corner of the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

This is a memory drawing, not a preliminary study for Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room [YMSM 178].

Hadley considered the drawings were made in preparation for the decoration, but this is unlikely. 1

Notes:

1: Hadley 1968 [more] , pp. 37-41, no. 18.

Last updated: 10th May 2021 by Margaret