Sketch of 'Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel' may date from about 1879. It has not been located but is known from a reproduction by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913). 1

Sketch of 'Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel', Way 1912

Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel, Tate

It is a memory sketch, or a drawing of, or a study for, Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel [YMSM 169], which dates from between 1875 and 1877; Whistler had access to the oil throughout the late 1870s and 1880s and it was exhibited frequently.

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 723).