Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no 477) as 'Study for a Nocturne'.

Books on Whistler

• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 14-15, repr. f.p. 14.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Spink, Nesta, Whistler: The Later Years, University of Michigan Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, 1978 (checklist, cat. no. 42).
• Whistler: Themes and Variations, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA; Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Stanford University Museum of Art, CA, 1978 (cat. no. 14) as 'Study for a Nocturne' (repr. p. 24).