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. 205), plate 137, as 'Nocturne: Grey and Silver – Chelsea Embankment, Winter'.

Authored by Whistler

• Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 1).

Catalogues 1855-1905

• [Exhibition], Mr White's North British Galleries, Glasgow, 1879, Mr White's North British Galleries, Gordon Street, Glasgow (catalogue untraced).
• Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 1) as 'Nocturne. Grey and Silver – Chelsea Embankment – Winter'.
• VI. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1892.
• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 61) as 'Nocturne – Grey and Silver – Chelsea Embankment'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 73) as 'Nocturne en gris et argent. Le quai de Chelsea. – (Nocturne. Grey and Silver. Chelsea Embankment.)'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Megilp', [review], Bailie, Glasgow, vol. 13, 22 January 1879, p. 11.
• Anon., 'Megilp', [review], Bailie, Glasgow, vol. 13, 29 January 1879, p. 11.
• Anon., [Glasgow Fine Art Institute], Glasgow Evening Citizen, Glasgow, 1 February 1879, p. 3.
• Anon., 'The Glasgow Fine Art Institute, Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 3 February 1879, p. 4.
• Anon., 'Institute of Fine Arts', North British Daily Mail, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 3 February 1879, p. 5.
• Anon., 'The Glasgow Fine Art Institute, Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 3 February 1879, p. 4.
• Anon., 'Lawrie's Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings', North British Daily Mail, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 8 February 1879, p. 4.
• Anon., 'Institute of Fine Arts', North British Daily Mail, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 24 February 1879, p. 5.
• Anon., 'The Fine Art Institute. Fourth Notice', Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 17 March 1879, p. 4.
• Anon., Dundee Advertiser, Dundee, 6 March 1893, p. 2.

Journals 1855-1905

• Halkett, George R., Notes to the Eighteenth Exhibition of the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1879, pp. 54-55.
• Wedmore, Frederick, Four Masters of Etching, 1883, p. 28, reprinted in exh. cat., London, Goupil, 1892 (cat. no. 1).
• 'Art, Literature', The Artist, vol. 13, 1 April 1892, p. 122.
• MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, 'Mr Whistler’s Paintings in Oil', The Art Journal, 1893, pp. 88-93, repr. p. 88.
• Matsuki, Bunkio (ed.), 'Whistler Memorial Exhibition', Lotus, vol. 1, no. 1, (Special Holiday Number in Memoriam: James A. McNeill Whistler), December 1903, pp. 7-9, at p. 9.

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. 61), p. 166.
• Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, p. 122.
• Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington, DC, and London, 1995, p. 181, fig. 47.
• Singer, Hans Wolfgang, James Mc.N. [sic] Whistler, Die Kunst, Berlin, vol. 19, 1905 , p. 82.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 64.

Books, General

• Fowle, Frances, Impressionism and Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2008, pp. 50-51, fg. 59.
• Nicholson, William and Andrew Nicholson, William Nicholson, painter: paintings, woodcuts, writings, photographs, London, 1996.
• Sharpe, William Chapman, New York Nocturne: The City after Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, Princeton, N.J., p. 92, fig. 2.5.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 15 (02.143).
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 126, 293, plate 30.

EXHIBITION:

• Inaugural Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, 1912 (cat. no. 106).
• Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003.
• 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 (cat. no. 68).

Journals 1906-Present

• Abbott, K. (ed.) and Whistler, Anna McNeill, 'The Lady of the Portrait, Letters of Whistler’s Mother', Atlantic Monthly, vol. 136, 1925, pp. 310-28, at p. 324.
• Hayward, Mary E., 'The Influence of the Classical Oriental Tradition', Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 14, no. 2, Summer 1979, pp. 107-42, repr. fig. 6.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.143a-b.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 62) 'Nocturne, grey and silver: Chelsea Embankment / Nocturne, grey and silver: Chelsea Embankment, winter'.

Other

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