Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1679) as 'r.: The Forge; v.: Smiths, Ajaccio'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Copley Society (ed.), Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels & Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 161) as 'The Forge'.

Books, General

• Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, no. 158.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 214, 220.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by James McNeill Whistler lent by Mr. Richard Canfield Buffalo, 1911 (cat. no. 33), repr. p. 44.
• Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by J. McN. Whistler, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1914 (cat. no. 35).
• [Exhibition], Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1983.
• Tedeschi, Martha, and Britt Salvesen, Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, Chicago, 1998.

Websites

• Library of Congress website at loc.gov.
• Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, online website (G. 490).
• Etching Flaming Forge in the collection of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow at collections.gla.ac.uk.