This nice peacock with swooping tail feathers is pictured on the steps to the studio at Penkill in Ayrshire. It's a characteristic typical watercolour from 1875 by Alice Boyd, laird of Penkill, which is now with the National Galleries of Scotland. Boyd was a rather tentative artist, given to nervous over-working, which is this case makes the fussy foliage effective against the diagonal lines.
