Photo of Sketches,The Gold Scab,James McNeill Whistler,1900?,Humorous

Title: [Photo of Sketches of 'The Gold Scab']
Other Title: Gold scab sketch
Creator(s): Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist
Date Created/Published: [1900?]
Summary: Photo of Right half: pencil sketch of top half of a figure, pen and ink sketch of a single peacock feather. Left half: pen and ink drawing of a man (Frederick R. Leyland), feathered as a peacock, playing a grand piano.
Notes:
Formerly misidentified as a self-portrait of Whistler as a peacock playing the piano. The new identification is based on similarity to Whistler's painting 'The Gold Scab' at the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco.
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Signed with butterfly.
On front in pencil, lower left, in unknown hand: By J. Whistler ...
White laid paper, folded vertically at center watermark: The Hanover [star] Note Paper.
James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1602 (p. 576)
Purchase; Pennell Fund; 1950; (500024).
Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.
Subjects:
Leyland, Frederick Richards,--1831-1892.
Humorous pictures--1900.
Ink drawings--1900.
Portrait drawings--1900.
Bookmark /91729523/
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