File:Sketches of "The Gold Scab" LCCN91729523.jpg

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• Title from catalogue raisonné.
• 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.
• 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.
• Exhibited: "Filthy Lucre: Painters, Patrons, and the Peacock Room" at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., May - November 2015.