Catalogues Raisonnés
-
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 749) as 'The Little Riva; in opal'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Possibly
Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 3) as 'The Little Riva; in opal'.
Newspapers 1855-1905
- Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels', Daily News, London, 31 January 1881, p. 2.
- Anon., 'Venice Pastels, Daily Telegraph, London, 5 February 1881.
- Anon., 'Art: Venice Pastels', The Observer, London, 6 February 1881, supplement p. 1.
Journals 1855-1905
- Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Pastels', Athenaeum, no. 2780, 5 February 1881, p. 206.
-
Country Gentleman, 5 February 1881.
Books on Whistler
-
Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 80-81, repr. pl. 87.
-
Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 53.
Books, General
-
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1989, p. 32.
-
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, revised edition, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2003, p. 35.
Catalogues 1906-Present
-
MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1984 (cat. no. 63).
-
Denker, Eric, Whistler and his circle in Venice, London, 2003 (cat. no. 73).
Websites
- Lauren Rogers Museum of Art database online at https://lrma.pastperfectonline.com.
Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret