Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 47), plate 29, as 'Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks'.

Authored by Whistler

• Goupil Gallery and James McNeill Whistler, Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces [portfolio of photographs published after the Goupil Gallery Exhibition, March-April 1892], London, 1892, repr. pl. 23.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 96th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1864 (cat. no. 593) as 'Die Lange Lizen – of the six marks'.
• Exhibited by Gambart, London, 1866.
• The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Royal Mining Engineering and Industrial Exhibition, Newcastle, 1887 (cat. no. 777).
• Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 5) as 'The Lange Leizen – of the six marks. Purple and Rose'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Royal Academy', The Realm, London, 4 May 1864.
• 'Exhibition of the Royal Academy', The Times, London, 5 May 1864, p. 8.
• Anon., The Daily Telegraph, London, 9 May 1864.
• Anon., 'Royal Academy Exhibition', The Daily Telegraph, London, 16 May 1864.
• Anon., 'Fine Arts', London Daily News, London, 17 May 1864, p. 2.
• Anon., [Royal Academy], The Realm, London, 4 June 1864.
• Anon.,'Mr Whistler's Works', Daily Graphic, London, 19 March 1892.
• Anon.,'The Whistler Exhibition', The Irish Times, Dublin, 24 March 1892.
• Anon.,'The Whistler Exhibition', Manchester Guardian, Manchester, 25 March 1892.

Journals 1855-1905

• Gilbert, William S., 'Our Critic among the Pictures', Fun, 14 May 1864, pp. 83-84. Online in The Victorian Web.
• Anon., The Athenaeum, London, 14 May 1864, pp. 682-83.
• Anon., The London Review, London, 21 May 1964.
• Anon., The Saturday Review, London, 28 May 1864.
• The Spectator, London, 18 June 1864.
• Rossetti, William Michael, Fine Art, Chiefly Contemporary: Notices Reprinted, with Revisions, London and Cambridge, 1867, pp. 273-74.
• 'Minor Exhibitions', The Athenaeum, London, 26 March 1892.
• Sickert, Walter Richard, 'Whistler To-day', The Fortnightly Review, vol. 57, new series, vol. 51, April 1892, pp. 543-47, at p. 545.
• Anon., ‘Дж. УистлерЪ [Dzh. Uistler]’, Мир искусства [Mir Iskusstva, 'World of Art'], vol. 9, 1903, pp. 61-68, repr. p. 68.
• Losee, William F., 'James McNeill Whistler, the Painter', Brush and Pencil, vol. 12, no. 5 (special Whistler number), August 1903, pp. 319-20, 323-31, 333, repr. p. 343.
• Bénédite, Léonce, 'Artistes Contemporains: Whistler', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 33, 1905, pp. 403-10, 496-511; vol. 34, 1905, pp. 142-58, 231-46, in vol. 34 at pp. 146, 148.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907 (cat. no. 492).
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 237, repr. p. 238.
• Duret, Théodore, trans. by Frank Rutter, Whistler, English edition, London, 1917, pp. 27-28.
• Fleming, Gordon, The Young Whistler 1834-66, London, Boston, Sydney, 1978, pp. 202-03, 226.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., (ed.) Whistler's Mother: An American Icon, Aldershot and Burlington, 2003, p. 25.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'East and West: Sources and Influences', in MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 58-61, figs. 57 and 58 (Chinese sleeve-band); see also pp. 95, 220.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Joanna Hiffernan and James Whistler: an Artistic Partnership' in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 15-31.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Joanna Dunn, and Joyce H. Townsend, 'Painting Joanna Hiffernan', in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 33-45.
• Merrill, Linda, A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in 'Whistler v. Ruskin', Washington and London, 1992, p. 25.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 121-22, 127, repr. f.p. 122; vol. 2, p. 127.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 135.
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner, A Fragile Modernism. Whistler and his Impressionist Followers, London and New Haven, 2007, p. 2.
• Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 59, 78-80, 82-85, 87-88, 90, 92-94, 123, 133, 533, 542, 618, 620-21.
• Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 83-86, 88-89, 126, 256, 266.
• Sutherland, Daniel E., and Georgia Toutziari, Whistler’s Mother: Portrait of an Extraordinary Life, New Haven and London, 2018.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 50.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 15).
• Taylor, Hilary, James McNeill Whistler, London, 1978, p. 26.
• Watanabe, Toshio, High Victorian Japonisme, Berne and New York, 1991, pp. 212, 236-38.

Books, General

• Du Maurier, Daphne, (ed.), The Young George du Maurier: A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67, London, 1951, p. 227.
• Lambourne, Lionel, Japonisme: cultural crossings between Japan and the West, Phaidon, 2005, p. 21.
• Maas, Jeremy, Prince of the Victorian Art World, London, 1975, p. 166.
• Ono, Ayako, Japonisme in Britain: Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan, London, 2003, pp. 60-65.
• Rossetti, William Michael, Fine Art, Chiefly Contemporary: Notices Reprinted, with Revisions, London and Cambridge, 1867, pp. 273-74.
• Watanabe, Toshio, High Victorian Japonisme, Berne and New York, 1991, p. 236.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Sewell, Darrel, Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections , Philadelphia, 1995, p. 283.

EXHIBITION:

• Escapists and Expatriates, Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, 1946.
• White, Nelson C., James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 26).
• Sweet, Frederick A. (ed.), Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1954 (cat. no. 99).
• Young, Andrew McLaren, James McNeill Whistler: An Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works, Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the English-Speaking Union of the United States, London and New York, 1960 (cat. no. 11).
• Paintings and Drawings by Victorian Artists in England, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1965 (cat. no. 163).
• Goodrich, Lloyd (ed.), Art of the United States, 1670-1966, New York, 1966 (cat. no. 291) as 'Lady of the Lange Lijsen'.
• From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World, Wildenstein, New York, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971 (cat. no. 15).
• Sweet, Frederick A. (ed.), James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 1968 (cat. no. 6).
• Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 22).
• Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, pp. 25, 56, 102-03, 160, 176 (cat. no. 2), repr.
• Posnanskaya, Anna, 'Through the Prism of a Nocturne: The Vogue for Japanese Style in Russia', in Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 118-127, at pp. 119-20, repr. p. 119.
• Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 25-26, 182 (cat. no. 2).
• Ono, Ayako (ed.), ホイッスラー展. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, Tokyo, 2014 (cat. no. 92), pp. 130-31, repr.

Journals 1906-Present

• Abbott, K. (ed.) and Whistler, Anna McNeill, 'The Lady of the Portrait, Letters of Whistler’s Mother', Atlantic Monthly, vol. 136, 1925, pp. 310-28, at p. 323.
• Grant, J. Kirby, 'Mr. John G. Johnson's Collection of Pictures in Philadelphia', Connoisseur, vol. 21, May 1908, p. 151, repr.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Whistler's Designs for a Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain', Connoisseur, vol. 198, August 1975, pp. 290-95, at p. 291.
• Sandberg, John, ' “Japonisme” and Whistler', The Burlington Magazine, vol. 106, November 1964, pp. 500-07, at p. 503.

Websites

• Philadelphia Museum of Art website at http://www.philamuseum.org.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 39) 'The lady of the lang lijsen' / The lange leizen of the six marks : Purple and rose'.

Other

• Goebel, Catherine Carter, Arrangement in Black and White: the Making of a Whistler Legend, PhD thesis, 2 vols, Evanston, Northwestern University, 1988.
• Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.