Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1122) as 'Velarium'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Truth, London, 6 May 1886.
• St James Gazette, London, 1 December 1886.

Books on Whistler

• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 69.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 305.
• Bendix, Deanna Marohn, Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler, Washington and London, 1995, pp. 237-38, 242-43, 245-46, 262-64.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

• 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. 93).
• Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 100, 187 (cat. no. 112), repr. p. 100.
• James McNeill Whistler, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art 2014, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 2014 (no catalogue).

SALE:

• Sotheby's, London, 18 February 1974 (lot 49).

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.