Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 776) as 'A Red Note'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 43) as 'A Red Note'.
• “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 38) as 'A Red Note – Venice'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• New York Herald, New York, 2 March 1889.
• New York Tribune, New York, 13 March 1889.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Wenice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite,' Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000.
• 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, drawing by Way f.p. 52.