Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 151), plate 150, as 'Nocturne in Blue and Silver'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Probably II Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1878 (cat. no. 53) as 'Nocturne in Blue and Silver'.
• Blackburn, Henry, Grosvenor Notes, London, 1878, p. 20.
• Possibly Exposition Internationale de Peinture, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 1883 (cat. no. 5) as 'Nocturne en bleu et argent'.
• Possibly A Collection of Selected Works by Painters of the English, French & Dutch Schools, Goupil Gallery, London, 1898 (cat. no. 25) as 'Nocturne – Blue and Gold'
• 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. 38) as 'Arrangement in Grey and Gold, Nocturne, Battersea Bridge' [sic].

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery,' The Times, London, 2 May 1878, p. 7.
• Anon., 'Grosvenor Gallery', Sheffield Independent, Sheffield, 2 May 1878, p. 5.
• Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery,' Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Leeds, 14 May 1878, p. 6.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon, 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Magazine of Art, 1878, p. 51.
• 'Facetiae [The Newest Thing in Wall-Paper]', London Reader: Of Literature, Science, Art and General Information, vol. 32, January 1879, p. 238.
• Lostalot, Alfred de, 'Exposition internationale de peinture. Galerie Georges Petit', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 28, July 1883, pp. 77-80 , at p. 80.
• Twycross, Honora, 'Japanese Pictures', English Illustrated Magazine, vol. 18, September 1904, p. 529.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907.
• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, p. 40, repr. p. 41.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, repr. f.p. 162.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, pp. 161-67.
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner, A Fragile Modernism. Whistler and his Impressionist Followers, London and New Haven, 2007, pp. 11, 136.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 159 (cat. no. 67) as 'Nocturne in Grey and Gold, Battersea Bridge'.

Books, General

• Bindman, David, The History of British art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 85 (v.3), fig. 55.
• Marciari-Alexander, Julia, This other Eden, paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 164 (cat. no. 67).
• Prettejohn, Elizabeth, Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 176-79.
• Smith, Ann Y., Hidden in Plain Sight: The Whittemore Collection and the French Impressionists, Garnet Hill Publishing Co. and Mattatuck Historical Society, 2009, pp. 62-63, 73, 93, repr. p. 63.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Prints and Drawings from New England Collections, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1939, as 'Thames Nocturne' lent by the J. H. Whittemore Company.
• 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, p. 128 (cat. no. 52).
• The Grosvenor Gallery, a palace of art in Victorian England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1996, pp. 97, 199 (cat. no. 68), fig. 53, pl. 32.
• Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, pp. 4, 110-11 (cat. no. 6).
• Lochnan, Katharine, 'Turner, Whistler, Monet: an artistic dialogue', pp. 15-35, repr, p. 19, in Lochnan, Katharine A. (ed.), Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2004; Grand Palais, Paris, 2004-2005; Tate Britain, London, 2005 (cat. no. 48).
• Barringer, Timothy J., Art and music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 30-31, 34.
• Stoner, Joyce Hill, 'Materials for Immateriality', in Simpson, Marc, Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2008, pp. 91-109, at pp. 95-96, pl. 1, raking light image repr. p. 95, fig. 37.
• MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014, pp. 128, 174 (cat. no. 65).
• Ayako Ono, ホイッスラー展. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyōto, 2014, and Yokohama Museum of Art, 2014–2015 (cat. no. 124).
• Whistler in Paris, London and Venice, Yale University Art Gallery, 2015.
• Lochnan, Katharine, Roald Nasgaard and Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, (eds.), Mystical Landscapes From Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2016; Munich 2017, p. 174-75.

Journals 1906-Present

• Anon., 'Nocturne in Blue and Silver: Lagoon in Venice', ART News, vol. 44, 1 November 1945, p. 21, repr.
• Anon., 'Lagoon, Venice : Nocturne in Blue and Silver', ArtsCanada, vol. 28, October 1971, p. 18, repr.
• Anon., 'Nocturne in Blue and Silver, no. 1', Art Quarterly, vol. 10, 1947, p. 11.
• Alper, M. V., 'American Mythologies in Painting', Arts Magazine, vol. 46, Summer 1972, p. 50.
• Pilgrim, Dianne Hauserman, 'Revival of Pastels in Nineteenth Century America: The Society of Painters in Pastel', American Art Journal, vol. 10, November 1978, pp. 43-62.
• Hobbs, Susan, 'Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.', Magazine Antiques, vol. 120, November 1981, pp. 1194-202.
• Holden, Donald, 'James McNeill Whistler: Master of Limited Color', American Artist, vol. 37, April 1973, pp. 38-43.
• Ingram, Terry, 'A Win for Yale', ART News, February 1995, p. 33.
• Neve, Christopher, 'View of the River: James McNeill Whistler in London', Country Life, vol. 148, 10 December 1970, pp. 1122-23.
• Slifkin, Robert, 'James Whistler as the invisible man, anti-aestheticism and artistic vision', Oxford Art Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, March, 2006, p. 58, fig. 3.

Newspapers 1906-Present

• McDonald, John, 'A Feast of Mellon', Sydney Morning Herald, 9 May 1998, p. 14.

Websites

• Yale Center for British Art website at http://collections.britishart.yale.edu.
• Hill, Marian, frame manufacturers, picture restorers and repairers and mounters of drawings, 10 January 2015, attached to Henry John Murcott, http://mv.ancestry.co.uk (acc. 2016).

Other

• None.