1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.876, CCLXXIII 40, as ‘Island, from the sea: Staffa.’.
1969
John Gage, Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth, London 1969, pp.126, 253 note 247.
1972
Werner Haftmann, Andrew Wilton, Henning Bock and others, J.M.W. Turner: Gemälde Aquarelle, exhibition catalogue, Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1972, p.113 under cat.17.
1984
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.198 under cat.347.