Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 727) as 'The Beggars – Winter'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITION:

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat no. 32) 'The Beggars – Winter'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 167) as 'Doorway'.

SALE:

• Sotheby's, London, 23 January 1893 (lots 113-130).

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Venice Pastels, Daily Telegraph, London, 5 February 1881.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon. [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 36-37, site repr. p. 37, fig. 17.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 38-39, 44-45, 99, repr. p. 38, pl. 39.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 265, pl. 257.

Websites

• Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, online website (etching. G.190).
• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.175a-b.