1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.215 LXXXI 58 (as ‘“Our Landing at Calais. Nearly swampt.”’ 1800–5).
1981
A.G.H. Bachrach, ‘Turner, Ruysdael and the Dutch’, Turner Studies, vol.1, no.1, Summer 1981, pp.22, 30 note 11.
1985
Barry Venning, ‘A Macabre Connoisseurship: Turner, Byron and the Apprehension of Shipwreck Subjects in Early Nineteenth–Century England’, Art History, vol.8, no.3, September 1985, p.304.
1987
John Gage, J.M.W. Turner: ‘A Wonderful Range of Mind’, New Haven and London 1987, p.66.
2001
Ian Warrell, ‘Calais’ in Evelyn Joll, Martin Butlin and Luke Herrmann (eds.), The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 2001, pp.37–8.