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"How Golden Peacock to a dining room destroyed a longstanding friendship in Victorian Society."

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The peacock mural in James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, as seen in the 2022 exhibition “The Peacock Room Comes to America” (National Museum of Asian Art)
How Golden Peacocks on a Dining Room Wall Destroyed a Longstanding Friendship in Victorian Society
Paintings, sketches and correspondence shed light on the drama surrounding the famed “Peacock Room”
Alicia Ault
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