Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 822) as 'Blue and silver – The lslands, Venice'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 50) as 'Blue and Silver – The Islands, Venice'.
• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 92).

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Gallery', The Daily News, London, 21 May 1884, p. 7.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 180, repr. pl. 236.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 57, 59, 99, 104-05, repr. pl. 111.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 267, pl. 261.
• Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 28 (cat. no. 1).

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.215a-c.