1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.520 as ‘Do. [Buildings on hill.] “The first bit of Claude” (probably distant view of Loreto).’.
1966
Lawrence Gowing, Turner: Imagination and Reality, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1966, p.16.
1969
Graham Reynolds, Turner, London 1969, p.110.
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.119.
1974
A. [‘Fred’] H.G. Bachrach, Turner and Rotterdam: 1817 – 1825 – 1841, Netherlands [circa 1974], p.18 note 14.
1977
Gerald Wilkinson, Turner Sketches 1789–1820, London 1977, p.[158].
1982
Evelyn Joll and Martin Butlin, L’opera completa di Turner 1793–1829, Classici dell’arte, Milan 1982, pp.5, [120] under no.331.
1983
Michael Kitson, ‘Turner and Claude’, Turner Studies, vol.2, no.2, Winter 1983, p.11 note 45.
1982
Andrew Wilton, Turner Abroad: France; Italy; Germany; Switzerland, London 1982, p.25.
1984
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.185 under no.331.
1984
Cecilia Powell, ‘Turner on Classic Ground: His Visits to Central and Southern Italy and Related Paintings and Drawings’, unpublished Ph.D thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 1984, pp.94 note 118, 96, 407, reproduced pl.26, as ‘Osimo from the road from Ancona, with the towers of the Palazzo Comunale and cathedral’.
1985
Jack Lindsay, Turner: The Man and His Art, London 1985, p.96.
1987
Cecilia Powell, Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence, New Haven and London 1987, p.[29], reproduced plate 23, as ‘The first bit of Claude’.
1987
Andrew Wilton, Turner in his Time, London 1987, p.122.
1989
Jeremy Robinson, The Light Eternal: A Study of J.M.W. Turner, Kidderminster 1989, p.37.
1990
Kathleen Nicholson, Turner’s Classical Landscapes: Myth and Meaning, Princeton 1990, p.245.
1997
James Hamilton, Turner: A Life, London 1997, p.148.
1991
Peter Galassi, Corot in Italy: Open-air Painting and the Classical-Lanscape Tradition, New Haven and London 1991, p.84.
1998
Richard P. Townsend, Andrew Wilton, David Blayney Brown and others, J.M.W. Turner: ‘That Greatest of Landscape Painters’: Watercolors from London Museums, exhibition catalogue, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa 1998, p.7.
2002
Ian Warrell, Blandine Chavanne and Michael Kitson, Turner et le Lorrain, exhibition catalogue, Musée des beaux-arts, Nancy 2002, no.40, pp.94 reproduced, 191, as ‘ “The first bit of Claude”; a view of Osimo on the road from Ancona (with views of Loreto and Campocavallo on the left-hand page)’.
2004
Christopher Wynne, J.M.W. Turner (Lifelines), Munich, London and New York 2004, p.34.
2006
Andrew Wilton, Turner in his Time, revised ed., London 2006, p.114.
2008
Nicola Moorby, ‘Un tesoro italiano: i taccuini di Turner’, in James Hamilton, Nicola Moorby, Christopher Baker and others, Turner e l’Italia, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara 2008, pp.100, 105 note 13.
2009
Nicola Moorby, ‘An Italian Treasury: Turner’s sketchbooks’, in James Hamilton, Nicola Moorby, Christopher Baker and others, Turner & Italy, exhibition catalogue, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2009, pp.113, 154 note 14.
