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

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Fighting Peacocks

Composition


                    Fighting Peacocks, I.S. Gardner Museum
Fighting Peacocks, I.S. Gardner Museum

                    Panel of Fighting Peacocks in The  Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Panel of Fighting Peacocks in The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

A drawing, possibly from memory, of the large painting on the end wall of 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.

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