1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.935, CCXCI b 54, as ‘Sleeping nymph’.
1989
Ann Chumbley and Ian Warrell, Turner and the Human Figure: Studies of Contemporary Life, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1989, p.30 no.12, reproduced (as ‘Reclining Female Nude’. c.1834).
1997
Anthony Bailey, Standing in the Sun: A Life of J.M.W. Turner, London 1997, p.283, reproduced between pp.358 and 359 (as ‘Erotic sketch’. c.1834).
2003
Ian Warrell, ‘Exploring the “Dark Side”: Ruskin and the Problem of Turner’s Erotica’, with ‘A Checklist of Erotic Sketches in the Turner Bequest’, British Art Journal, vol.4, no.1, Spring 2003, p.28, pl.68 (colour), untitled.
2012
Ian Warrell, Turner’s Secret Sketches, London 2012, reproduced in colour, p.114, p.144, as ‘CCXCI b 55’, untitled.