1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.884, CCLXXVIII 1a, as ‘Study for a classical subject (?Hero and Leander.)’.
1975
Andrew Wilton, Turner in the British Museum: Drawings and Watercolours, exhibition catalogue, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London 1975, p.120 under no.189.
1984
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.221 under no.370.
1998
Judy Egerton, The British School, National Gallery Catalogues, London 1998, pp.298, 304 note 12.
1990
Kathleen Nicholson, Turner’s Classical Landscapes: Myth and Meaning, Princeton 1990, pp.197, 218, 256, 263 note 57.