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. 204), plate 134, as 'Nocturne: Black and Gold – Rag Shop, Chelsea'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 58) as 'Nocturne, black and gold – No. 6, Rag Shop, Chelsea'.
• 2nd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, 1899 (cat. no. 134) as 'Nocturne in Brown and Gold – Chelsea Rags'.
• 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. 90) as 'Nocturne, Chelsea Rags'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., ' "Notes" – "Harmonies" – "Nocturnes" ', Sunday Times, London, 18 May 1884.
• Anon., 'International Art Exhibition', The Globe, London, 9 May 1899, p. 5.
• Anon., 'International Art at Knightsbridge', Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 9 May 1899, p. 8.
• Anon., 'International Society', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 10 May 1899, pp. 1-2.

Journals 1855-1905

• None.

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 (cat. no. 436), p. 221.
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, p. 282, repr. p. 284.
• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, p. 68, repr. p. 69.
• Holden, Donald, Whistler Landscapes and Seascapes, New York, 1969, p. 48, repr. p. 14.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 224.
• Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 377, 416-17.
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner, A Fragile Modernism. Whistler and his Impressionist Followers, London and New Haven, 2007, p. 29.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 82), p. 162.
• Spencer, Robin (ed.), Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989), repr. pl. 59, p. 188.
• Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, p. 192, repr. p. 78.
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 64, repr. f.p. 64.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 67-68, repr. drawing f.p. 68.

Books, General

• Cowan, John J., From 1846-1932, Edinburgh, 1933, p. 172.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 414 (cat. no. 442), repr.

EXHIBITION:

• Inaugural Loan Exhibition, Kirkcaldy Art Gallery, Kirkcaldy, 1925.
• Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 119).
• Shades of Significance, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA 1993-1996.
• Chikashi Kitazaki, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Ueno, Japan, 2002, pp. 220-21 (cat. no. 69), repr.
• Wolohojian, Stephan, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2003, pp. 488-89 (cat. no. 216), repr.
• Wolohojian, Stephan, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; National Gallery, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003-2004, pp. 472-73 (cat. no. 216).
• Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, pp. 16, 60-61, 94 (not in exhibition).
• For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 2004.

Journals 1906-Present

• None.

Websites

• Fogg Art Museum website at http://www.harvardartmuseums.org.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 363).

Other

• Siewert, John, 'Whistler’s Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject', PhD thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994.