Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1876 Collection: British Museum, London Accession Number: 1958,0208.3-36 Medium: pen and dark brown ink Support: cream laid paper with watermark "WHATMAN" Size: 245 x 198 mm (9 5/8 x 7 13/16") Signature: none Inscription: r: engraved heading '30, Lombard Street, London, E.C.'; BRITISH MUSEUM
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MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 579) as 'Peacock designs (a) feathers on panel; (b) plan of ceiling; (c) feathers on panels; (d) feathers on panels and ceiling coffers'.
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).
Monographs
Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 216-17, repr. fig. 5.26.
Books on Whistler
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, repr.f.p.104 as "Sketch of Detail of Peacock Room" and "Sketch of Stairway at
Leyland's House" in poss. Estate of Mrs.Leyland, and f.p.105 as "Sketches of Peacock Room" in poss.
Mrs.J.C.Gardner (sic), side d, repr.f.p.104 as "Sketch of Detail of Peacock Room " in poss. Estate
of Mrs.Leyland (sic).
Catalogues 1906-Present
EXHIBITION:
Young, Andrew McLaren, James McNeill Whistler: An Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works, Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the English-Speaking Union of the United States, London and New York, 1960 (cat. no. 114d) as 'Five Designs for Aubrey House'.
Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, repr. p. 66, fig. 159.