1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.552, as ‘Do. [Temple at Pæstum]; also “Porta della Lavinda” (?).’.
1983
Cecilia Powell, ‘Turner’s Vignettes and the Making of Rogers’s “Italy”, Turner Studies, Summer 1983, vol.3, no.1, p.8.
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Powell, ‘Turner on Classic Ground: His Visits to Central and Southern Italy and Related Paintings and Drawings’, unpublished Ph.D thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 1984, pp.190 note 91, 425, 535–6 note 26, as ‘The Temple of Ceres; also a sketch of the Siren’s Gate at Paestum’.
1987
Cecilia Powell, Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence, New Haven and London 1987, p.83 note 71.
1993
Dr Jan Piggott, Turner’s Vignettes, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1993, p.82 under no.7.