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. 226), plate 143, as 'Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl'.

Authored by Whistler

• The World, 17 May 1882 , republished in Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, pp. 72-73.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 67) as 'Scherzo in Blue – "The Blue Girl" '.
• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 31).

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Bradford Observer, Bradford, 1 May 1882, pp. 3-4, at p. 4.
• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', The Era, London, 5 May 1882, p. 7.
• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', St James's Gazette, London, 6 May 1882, p. 6.
• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', The Era, London, 13 May 1882, p. 3.
• Anon., ‘Notes – Harmonies – Nocturnes’, Sunday Times, London, 24 May 1884.
• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Exhibition', Globe, London, 20 May 1884, p. 6.
• Anon. ['Cigarette'], 'Whistles', The Topical Times, London, 24 May 1884.
• 'M.C.S.' [Malcolm Charles Salaman], Kensington News, London, 29 May 1884.
• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery.-II', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 6 June 1882, p. 4.
• Anon., 'Art Notes', Liverpool Mercury, Liverpool, 3 July 1884, p. 6.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', The Builder, London, 24 May 1884.
• Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', The Graphic, London, 24 May 1884, p. 3.
• Godwin, E. W., 'To Art Students: Letter No. 9', British Architect, vol. 22, 11 July 1884, p. 13.
• Anon., Whitehall Review, London, 29 June 1884.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 44.
• Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, pp. 116-17.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 303-05.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, repr. f.p. 300 as 'Portrait of Miss Maud Waller. The Blue Girl (destroyed).'
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 76).
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, p. 30.

Books, General

• Baron, Wendy, Sickert, London, 1973, watercolour by Sickert, pp. 13, 298.
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, pp. 195, 284.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

• Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, PP. 14-16 (not in exhibition), repr. fig. 11.

SALE:

• Christie's, South Kensington, 14 July 2016 (lot 47, W. R. Sickert, 'Whistler's Studio').

Journals 1906-Present

• Sickert, ‘Where Paul and I differ’, Art News, No. 14, 10 February 1910, p. 113.
• Sickert, Walter, 'L'Affaire Greaves', New Age, 15 June 1911, pp. 159-60, at p. 160.

Websites

• W. R. Sickert watercolour: Christie's, South Kensington, 14 July 2016 (lot 47), website at https://www.christies.com.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 140).

Other

• None.