Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1098) as 'r.: Tête d'homme barbu; v.: Head of a woman'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 72 or 73) as 'Portrait'.
• Possibly Retrospective Exhibition, College for Working Men and Women, London, 1889 (no cat. nos).
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 172) as 'Tête d'homme barbu'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• The Evening News, London, 14 May 1889.

Journals 1855-1905

• Charles de Kay, 'Whistler. The head of the Impressionists', Art Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886, pp. 1-3, at p. 2.

Websites

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