1904
E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn (eds.), Library Edition: The Works of John Ruskin: Volume XIII: Turner: The Harbours of England; Catalogues and Notes, London 1904, pp.628 no.407, as one of ‘Five Studies’.
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.83, XXXVII 128, as ‘Study of cow’. c.1797.
1920
D[ugald] S[utherland] MacColl, National Gallery, Millbank: Catalogue: Turner Collection, London 1920, p.53.
1988
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: The ‘Wilson’ Sketchbook, London 1988, pp.35–6, reproduced in colour, p.[158].
1995
Ian Warrell, Through Switzerland with Turner: Ruskin’s First Selection from the Turner Bequest, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1995, p.30 note 112, fig.17, listing and reproducing this work among those framed together as National Gallery no.407.