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The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography  
Author: Linda Merrill
ISBN: 0300076118
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
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 relation to American culture.Copublished with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. .




The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography

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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 relation to American culture. Copublished with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. .

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The Atlantic Monthly

The book is illustrated generously...

     



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