M. D. Conway, Travels in South Kensington, London, 1882, p. 164.
L. and R. Ormond, Lord Leighton, London, 1975, p. 174, no. 420, as Female Cymbal Player.
C. Gere, Nineteenth-Century Decoration, London, 1989, pp. 18, 23, pl. 18, illustrated in the drawing of 44 Belgrave Square.
C. Dakers, Clouds, The Biography of a Country House, New Haven and London, 1993, p. 46, illustrated in the drawing of 44 Belgrave Square, opposite p. 47, as The Dance of the Cymbalists.
R. Ormond, 'Leighton and Mural Painting,' Apollo, London, February 1996, p. 55.
C. Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society, New Haven and London, 1999, p. 126, as The Cymbalists.
C. Willsdon, Mural painting in Britain 1840-1940: image and meaning, New York, 2000, p. 320, pl. 181, illustrated.
B. Bryant, 'The Grosvenor Gallery, Patronage and the Aesthetic Portrait,' The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement, 1860-1900, exh. cat., London, 2011, pp. 160, 163, fig. 143, illustrated in the drawing of 44 Belgrave Square, as The Dance of the Cymbalists.
C. Renton, Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power, New York, 2018, n.p., as The Cymbalists.