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Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room

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Artist/Creator (1)	Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American (active in England and France)
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, designer, painter
Artist/Creator (2)	Jeckyll, Thomas (1827-1881)
Artist/Creator (2).Nationality	British
Artist/Creator (2).Role	artist, designer
Title/Caption	Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room
Variant Title/Caption	Peacock Room , (The)
Larger Work/Entity	Home of Frederick Richards Leyland
Site/Creative Center	London (England)
Date of Work	1876-1877
Description of View	View of north and east walls showing Whistler's painting 'The Princess from the Land of Porcelain'
Notes	The Peacock Room was originally the dining room in the London home of Frederick Richards Leyland. It was purchased after Leyland's death by the American collector Charles Lang Freer, dismantled in 1904 and moved to Freer's home in Detroit. After Freer's death it was reinstalled in the Freer Gallery of Art. [See museum online entry, http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/singleObject.cfm?ObjectNumber=F1904.61 ]
Technique/Process	interior design, painting, gilding
Materials/Medium	oil paint and gold leaf on canvas, leather, and wood
Dimensions	Ht: 421.6 cm W: 613.4 cm D: 1026.2 cm
Century	19th Century
Location.Current Site/City & Country	Washington, D.C. (United States)
Location.Current Repository	Freer Gallery of Art
Repository Notes	Gift of Charles Lang Freer F1904.61
Related Persons	Artist/Creator (1) also appears as James Abbott MacNeil Whistler; James Abbott McNeil Whistler; James Abbott Mcneill Whistler and James A. McNeill Whistler. Frederick Richards Leyland (1831�1892), British shipowner from Liverpool, collector of Chinese porcelain. Charles Lang Freer (1854�1919) American art patron and collector
Subject	Art, American Art, British Architecture, British Painting, American Interior design Ceramics, Chinese Ceramics, Qing Dining rooms Animals Birds Peafowl Peacocks Figures, female
Collection Title	Decorative arts, furnishings and equipment (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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