Sketch of the Peacock Room

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Title

Sketch of the Peacock Room

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1898

Medium

Graphite (recto) on cream wove paper with printed text in black ink (verso)

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower left to lower right, below image, along margin, in dark brown-black ink by A. Ludovici: "Whistler's sketch of the Peacock Room. to give me an idea of it. done at Fracato's. [sic] 17th Dec - 1898 - / A. Ludovici"; inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "No 123 of London Catalogue -- page 122. / Lent by the artist Ludovici (1898)" (upside down); inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "FHO"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "a 50081"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "R. 10445"; inscribed verso, center top, in graphite: "lc / (illegible); inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: £110" (upside down)

Dimensions

18.8 × 17.8 cm (7 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Charles Deering Collection

Reference Number

1927.5883

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