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. 272) as 'Pink and Opal: Harbour'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 12) as 'Pink and opal – Harbour'.
• Annual Exhibition of Sketches, Pictures & Photography: A Loan Collection of Pictures by Mr Whistler ..., Dublin Sketching Club, Dublin, 1884 (cat. no. 241) as 'Pink and opal – Harbour'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Messrs Dowdeswell's Gallery', Morning Post, London, 24 May 1884, p. 5.

Journals 1855-1905

• None.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Collecting Whistler', in Paula Lunder et al., The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, MA, 2013, pp. 109-143, at pp. 116-17 as 'Blue and Opal: Herring Fleet'..
• McCann, Justin (ed.), Whistler and the World: The Lunder Collection of James McNeill Whistler at the Colby College of Art, New York, 2015.
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner, A Fragile Modernism. Whistler and his Impressionist Followers, London and New Haven, 2007, p. 28.

Books, General

• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Collecting Whistler' in Hannah Blunt, Sharon Corwin, Elizabeth Finch, Lauren Lessing and Elizabeth Spear, The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2013, pp. 108-143, at p. 116, repr. p. 117.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

• Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 86.

SALE:

• Sotheby's, New York, 28 November 2007 (lot 53) as 'Blue and Opal: Herring Fleet'. [sic]

Journals 1906-Present

• None.

Websites

• Colby College Museum of Art website at http://www.colby.edu.
• 'The City Review article on the Fall 2007 American Paintings', online at http://www.thecityreview.com/f07samp.html.

Unpublished

• None.

Other

• None.