1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.189, LXXII 51a.
1961
Alexander J. Finberg, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Second Edition, Revised, with a Supplement, by Hilda F. Finberg, revised ed., Oxford 1961, pp.86–7.
1969
John Gage, Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth, London 1969, p.61.
1976
John Walker, Joseph Mallord William Turner, New York 1976, p.21.
1983
Jerrold Ziff, ‘Turner et les grands maîtres’, in J.M.W. Turner, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 1983, p.29.
1987
Andrew Wilton, Turner in his Time, London 1987, pp.63–4.
1990
David Blayney Brown, The Art of J.M.W. Turner, London 1990, pp.58–9.
1997
Anthony Bailey, Standing in the Sun: A Life of J.M.W. Turner, London 1997, p.68.
2003
Ian Warrell, David Laven and others, Turner and Venice, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2003, p.54.