The Peacock Room
Product Description
A Cultural Biography
By Linda Merrill
This gorgeously illustrated book tells the history of the Peacock Room, decorated by James McNeill Whistler for wealthy London shipowner Frederick Leyland and currently on display at the Freer Gallery of Art. The history offers fascinating insights into nineteenth-century British culture/taste, patronage, attitudes toward Asian art, origins of art nouveau, and the relation to American culture.
Copublished with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. .
Hardcover: 408 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (November 10, 1998)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 12.7" x 10.2" x 1.4"
By Linda Merrill
This gorgeously illustrated book tells the history of the Peacock Room, decorated by James McNeill Whistler for wealthy London shipowner Frederick Leyland and currently on display at the Freer Gallery of Art. The history offers fascinating insights into nineteenth-century British culture/taste, patronage, attitudes toward Asian art, origins of art nouveau, and the relation to American culture.
Copublished with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. .
Hardcover: 408 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (November 10, 1998)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 12.7" x 10.2" x 1.4"
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