Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 804) as 'From the Steps of the Piazzetta'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 39) as 'From the Steps of the Piazetta'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Venice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite', Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.
• 'Venice in Pastel', St James's Gazette, 9 February 1881, p. 13.

Books on Whistler

• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.