Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 774) as 'The Zattere; harmony in blue and brown'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 4) as 'The Zattere; harmony in blue and brown'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
• 'Mr Whistler's Venice Pastels', Pan, 5 February 1881.
• 'Mr. Whistler's 'Venice Pastels', The Queen, 12 February 1881, p. 171.
• Godwin, E. W., 'With Whistler's Critics', British Architect, 25 February 1991, pp. 98-99.

Books on Whistler

• Getscher, Robert Harold, James Abbott McNeill Whistler Pastels, New York, 1991, p. 74, repr. p. 75.
• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 76, repr. pl. 78, view repr. pl. 78.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 49-50, 52, repr. pl. 55, photograph by Archivio Filippi repr. pl. 56.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Books, General

• Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy, An American Point of View: The Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago, 2002, pp. 104, 108, 206, repr. pp. 105, 206.
• Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy, Un regard transatlantique. La collection d'art américain de Daniel J. Terra, Chicago, 2002, pp. 104, 108, 206, repr. pp. 105, 206.
• Bourguignon, Katherine M., and Peter John Brownlee (eds), Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook, Chicago, 2018, p. 128, repr. p. 128.
• Cleveland, David A, A History of American Tonalism: 1880-1920, Manchester, Vermont, 2010, p. 140, repr. fig. 3.68, p. 140.
• Stratis, Harriet K. and Britt Salvesen (eds), The Broad Spectrum: Studies in the Materials, Techniques, and Conservation of Color on Paper, London, 2002, p. 38, repr. fig. 1.27, p. 38.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Pastels, Etchings and Lithographs by Whistler, Kennedy & Co., New York, 1914 (cat. no. 63) as 'Little Riva, Venice'.
• Whistler Pastels and Water Colours, Carroll Carstairs, New York, 1938 (cat. no. 4).
• Trois Siècles d'Art aux Etats-Unis, Musée de Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1938 (cat. no. 180).
• White, Nelson C., James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 51) as 'Little Riva'.
• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, American Master Drawings and Watercolors, American Federation for the Arts, New York, 1976-1977 (as The Little Riva in Opal) p. 226, repr. fig. 184, p. 225 as 'The Little Riva, in Opal'.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1984 (cat. no. 81).
• Atkinson, D. Scott et al., A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art, Terry A. Neff (ed.). Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1987, repr. pl. T-33, p. 142.
• An American Revelation: The Daniel J. Terra Collection, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1988.
• Regard sur James Abbott McNeill Whistler (James Abbott McNeill Whistler at a Glance), Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, France, 1994.
• Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 112), repr. p. 191.
• American Treasures: Chase, Whistler, and the Prendergasts, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1996-1997.
• The Decorative Form: The Aesthetic Movement, Arts & Crafts and the Asian Influence in American Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1999.
• Rivières et rivages: les artistes américains, 1850–1900 (Waves and Waterways: American Perspectives, 1850-1900), Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, France, 2000.
• Collection Cameo, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, July 2003.
• Harris, Neil et al., L'art américain: Identités d'une nation, Veerle Thielemans and Matthias Waschek (eds), Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, and Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2005, p. 95, repr. p. 97.

Journals 1906-Present

• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Whistler on Exhibition', Magazine Antiques, vol. 147, June 1995, pp. 863-73, at p. 869, repr. pl. XI, p. 870.

Websites

• Terra Foundation for American Art website at https://collection.terraamericanart.org.