Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1876 Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow Accession Number: GLAHA 46070 Medium: pen and brown ink Support: double sheet of off-white laid paper, partial watermark 'Parkins / Royal F...', removed
from an album of press-cuttings Size: 319 x 203 mm (12 9/16 x 8") Signature: butterfly Inscription: none
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 582) as 'Sketches of the Peacock Room; (a) south wall and shutters; (b) roof and wall panelling; (c) pendant and cove; (d) fighting peacocks'.
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).
Books on Whistler
Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 242, fig. 6.8.
Websites
The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.