Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 782) as 'The Staircase; note in red'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 35) as 'The Staircase; note in red'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Pastels at the Fine Art Society', The Standard, London, 31 January 1881, p. 2.
• Anon., 'Venice Pastels, Daily Telegraph, London, 5 February 1881.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Venice, or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite', Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Books on Whistler

• Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 171 (cat. no. 90).
• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000pp. 146-48, repr. pl. 182, old photograph of the staircase repr. pl. 183.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 262, pl. 252.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.174a-b as 'The Staircase: Note in Red'.