Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 584) as 'Cartoon of rich and poor Peacocks'.
  • 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).

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Harmony in Blue and Gold. The Peacock Room, London, 1877.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Godwin, E. W., 'Notes on Mr. Whistler’s “Peacock Room” ', Daily Courier, Liverpool, 24 February 1877, pp. 118-19.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Notes and News', The Academy, vol. 10, no. 226, 2 September 1876, p. 249.
  • Anon., 'Mr J. A. McNeill Whistler's Decorative Work, the Peacock Room', Queen, 17 February 1877, p. 124.
  • Graves, Algernon, 'James Abbott McNeill Whistler', Printseller and Print Collector, vol. 1, August 1903, pp. 341-45.

Books on Whistler

  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 242-43.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 202-09.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 118).
  • Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 31) 'Entwurf zu Harmonie in Blau und Gold: The Peacock Room'.
  • MacDonald, M. F., Whistler Pastels, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, 1984, p. 32.
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 55-56, 65, repr. fig. 110 (not exhibited).
  • ホイスラー展. Whistler Exhibition in Japan, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Shizuoka, 1986 (cat. no. 48) repr. pp. 104-05.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Winter, John, and Elisabeth West FitzHugh, 'Some Technical Notes on Whistler’s “Peacock Room” ', Studies in Conservation, vol. 30, 1985, pp. 149-54, p. 153.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

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