1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.519, CLXXVI 74, as ‘Town and harbour of Ancona’.
1984
Cecilia Powell, ‘Turner on Classic Ground: His Visits to Central and Southern Italy and Related Paintings and Drawings’, unpublished Ph.D thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 1984, pp.92, 407, as ‘Ancona from the mole’, 466 notes 109 and 111, pl.22, as ‘Ancona from the sea’.
1987
Cecilia Powell, Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence, New Haven and London 1987, pp.25, 202 note 45, pl.20, as ‘Ancona from the sea’.
1997
James Hamilton, Turner: A Life, London 1997, pp.198, 325 note 13.