1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.596, CXCV 177c, as ‘177. Glass balls, partly filled with water’.
1980
Judy Egerton [and Clifford Ellis], ‘JMWT PP’: A Selection of Drawings Made by Turner to Illustrate his Royal Academy Lectures as Professor of Perspective, exhibition pamphlet, Tate Gallery, London 1980, p.[6].
1992
Maurice Davies, Turner as Professor: The Artist and Linear Perspective, Tate Gallery, London 1992, p.53, reproduced in colour fig.53.
1998
Jonathan Miller, Mirror Image: Jonathan Miller on Reflection, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery, London 1998, p.29 reproduced in colour.
1994
Maurice William Davies, ‘J.M.W. Turner’s Approach to Perspective in His Royal Academy Lectures of 1811’, unpublished Ph.D thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, London 1994, p.265.