1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.575, as ‘Distant buildings; also – “Chara Claude. | The Sun in the centre and sky full of clouds, rather spotted and too strong for the whole. The upper part of the sky Blue, and the water too much so – in parts – two buildings are well color’d, one rather red and the other grey and brown shadows.” ’.
1965
Jerrold Ziff, ‘Copies of Claude’s Paintings in the Sketch Books of J.M.W. Turner’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, January 1965, p.56.
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Powell, ‘Turner on Classic Ground: His Visits to Central and Southern Italy and Related Paintings and Drawings’, unpublished Ph.D thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 1984, pp.151 note 1, 159.
1987
Cecilia Powell, Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence, New Haven and London 1987, pp.65, [67]–8, 203 note 1.