Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 580) as 'Three Peacock Shutters'.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (room, cat. no. 178).

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Notes and News', The Academy, vol. 10, no. 226, 2 September 1876, p. 249.

Monographs

• Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 218, repr. fig. 5.27.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Reff, Theodore, and Allen Staley (eds), From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World, Columbia University, New York, 1971 (cat. no. 25), "Two Sketches of the Peacock Room ", repr. pl. 64.
• Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 32, 186 (cat. no. 106) repr. p. 32.

Websites

• New York Public Library website.