1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.70, XXXIV 27, as ‘Egglestone Abbey, near Barnard Castle. The engraving published December, 1822, in Whitaker’s “Richmondshire” was based on this drawing’.
1924
Herbert E. Wroot, ‘Turner in Yorkshire, His Wanderings and Sketches’, Thoresby Society Miscellanea, Vol. XXVI, 1924, p.229.
1990
Peter Bower, Turner’s Papers: A Study of the Manufacture, Selection and Use of his Drawing Papers 1787– 1820, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1990, p.98.
1996
David Hill, Turner in the North: A Tour through Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, the Scottish Borders, the Lake District, Lancashire and Lincolnshire in the Year 1797, New Haven and London 1996, pp.46, 191, pl.62.