Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 402) as 'Note in flesh-colour gold – The Golden Blossom'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 41) as 'Note in flesh-colour gold – The Golden Blossom'.
• “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 45) as 'Gold and Pink'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., New York Herald, New York, 2 March 1889.
• Anon., 'Etchings, Drawings, Pastels', New York Times, New York, 3 March 1889, p. 5.

Journals 1906-Present

• de Kay, Charles, 'Whistler. The head of the Impressionists', Art Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886, p. 2.
• 'Quatre etudes de James M. R.(sic) Whistler', La Revue Independente de Litterature d'Art, November 1886.

Newspapers 1906-Present

• The Times, London, 1 June 1915, p. 11.
• Anon., 'Art & Artists', The Observer, London, 6 June 1915.

Websites

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