Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 195), plate 131, as 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Butterfly Cabinet.'

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Exposition Universelle, Champs de Mars, Paris, 1878, at William Watt's stand, 'Drawing Room Furniture. The Butterfly Cabinet and Fireplace ... Decorations in yellow and gold designed and painted by J. A. McV. [sic] Whistler'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon, 'Exhibits for the Paris Exhibition', The Building News, vol. 34, 22 March 1878, p. 287.
• 'Our Lithographic Illustrations. "Anglo-Japanese Furniture at Paris exhibition by E. W. Godwin, F.S.A." ', Building News and Engineering Journal, vol. 34, 14 June 1878, pp. 596, 603.
• G. W. S. [Smalley, George W.], 'A Harmony in Yellow and Gold', American Architect & Building News, vol. 4, no. 135, 27 July 1878, p. 36, first published as 'Household decoration ... Whistler's "Harmony in Yellow and Gold" ', New York Tribune, 6 July 1878, p. 2.
• Day, Lewis F., 'Notes on English Decorative Art in Paris. Part 3', British Architect and Northern Engineer, vol. 10, 12 July 1878, pp. 15-16.
• Anon., 'The Paris Universal exhibition V', Magazine of Art, September 1878, vol. 1, p. 116.
• Artist, vol. 3, 1882, p. 387.
• Anon., The Artist and Journal of Home Culture, 1 December 1882, p. 388.
• Smalley, Mrs Phoebe Garnaut, 'The Primrose Room' [?], The Lamp, March 1904.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Bendix, Deanna Marohn, Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler, Washington and London, 1995, pp. 97, 150, 156-57, 164-66, repr. fig. 58.
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 139-40.
• Koval, Anne, Whistler in his Time, London, 1994, p. 60, repr. pl. 57.
• Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 261.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 219-20.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, p. 158.
• Spencer, Robin (ed.), Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, p. 196,repr. pl. 66.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, repr. f.p. 100, as in Exposition Universelle, 1878.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, pp. 86-87, repr. f.p. 100.
• Taylor, Hilary, James McNeill Whistler, London, 1978, p. 85, repr. fig. 61.

Books, General

• Adams, Steven, The Arts and Crafts Movement, Baldock, 1987, p. 101.
• Aslin, Elizabeth, E. W. Godwin, Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1986, pp. 13-14, cat. no. 9, pl. 64.
• Banham, Joanna, Sally Macdonald, and Julian Porter, Victorian Interior Design, New York, 1991, pp. 115-16, 153.
• Farr, Dennis Larry Ashwell, English Art 1870-1940. The Oxford History of English Art, Oxford, 1978, pp. 141-42.
• Holt, Elizabeth Gilmore, The Expanding World of Art, 1874-1902, vol. 1, Universal Expositions and State-Sponsored Fine Arts Exhibitions, New Haven, 1988, p. 23.
• Lambourne, Lionel, The Aesthetic Movement, London, 1996, pp. 64-65, repr. p. 165.
• Lambourne, Lionel, Japonisme: cultural crossings between Japan and the West, London, 2005, p. 112.
• Paolini, Claudio, Alessandro Ponte, and Ornella Selvafolta, Il bello "ritrovato", Gusto, ambienti, mobili dell'Ottocento, Milan, 1990, pp. 354-58, 371.
• Soros, Susan, The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin, New Haven, 1999, pp. 205, 226, cat. no. 369, no. 139-a.
• Spencer, Robin, The Aesthetic Movement, London and New York, 1972, p. 60.
• Walker, John, James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1987, pp. 77-78.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Exhibition, Fine Art Society, London, 1972, p. 60.
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 66-67 (not exhibited).
• Calloway, Stephen, and Lynn Federle Orr (eds), The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011 (no catalogue number), repr. pl. 26.

Journals 1906-Present

• Aslin, Elizabeth, 'The Furniture Designs of E. W. Godwin', Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin, vol. 3, October 1967, pp. 145-54 (reprinted 1971, vol. 13, pp. 3-12), at pp. 151-53, drawings by Godwin repr. p. 153.
• Curry, David Park, 'Whistler and Decoration', Antiques, vol. 126, no. 5, November 1984, pp. 1186-99, at pp. 1196-97.
• Curry, David Park, ‘Total Control: Whistler at an Exhibition’, in: Ruth Fine (ed.), James McNeill Whistler: A Reexamination, Studies in the History of Art, vol. 19, Washington, DC, 1987, pp. 67-82, at p. 81, note 37.
• Kinchin, Juliet, ' "Harmony" or "agony" in yellow and gold?', Art Quarterly, Summer 2000, pp. 28-31.
• Lumley, John, 'The Pickford Wallers', in: John Herbert (ed.), Christie’s Review of the Season 1974, London, 1975, pp. 155-61, at pp. 159-60, repr. p. 155 in P. Waller's house ca 1908.
• Powell, Nicholas, 'Review', Apollo, vol. 124 (new series 295), September 1986, p. 226.
• Prince, Geraldine, 'The Peacock Painter', Scottish Portrait Magazine, October 1984, pp. 18-19.
• Watanabe, Toshio, 'Whistler and Japan. A lecture presented to the Society on 16th October 1990', The Japan Society Proceedings, vol. 117, Spring 1991, p. 19.

Newspapers 1906-Present

• Anon, 'Cabinet sold to university for 8,000 gns', Daily Telegraph, London, 5 October 1973.
• Norman, Geraldine, 'Price in the clouds for Whistler's butterflies', The Times, London, 5 October 1973.

Websites

On Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Butterfly Cabinet:

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/41302.

On the 'Cloud Cabinet':

• 'Cloud cabinet', Art and Design, National Museum of Scotland website at https://www.nms.ac.uk/cloudcabinet.
• The Art Fund website at http://www.artfund.org.

Unpublished

• Bromfield, David J., The Art of Japan in late nineteenth century Europe. Problems of Art Criticism and Theory, vol. 2, Ph.D, University of Leeds, 1977, p. 712.
• Soros, Susan Weber, Whistler as Collector, Interior Colorist and Decorator, Master's thesis, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1987, pp. 57-65, 142-44, repr. pl. 48, 49.

Other

• None.