ABBREVIATIONS
- C
- Spink, Nesta R., The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, gen. eds Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi, Chicago, 1998.
- ca
- circa (of about this date).
- F.A.S.
- The Fine Art Society, London.
- G
- Glasgow catalogue number (Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011, on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk).
- GUW
- The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. On-line edition, University of Glasgow. http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence
- I.S.S.P.G.
- International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers.
- K
- Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910.
- M
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995.
- mm
- millimetres.
- R.A.
- Royal Academy of Arts.
- R.B.A.
- Royal Society of British Artists.
- R.S.P.E.
- Royal Society of Painter Etchers.
- S.B.A.
- Society of British Artists.
- S.P.E.
- Society of Painter Etchers.
- W
- Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, 2nd ed., revised, London, 1899.
- XX
- Les Vingts.
- YMSM
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980.