1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.596, CXCV 179, as ‘Colour diagram’.
1966
Lawrence Gowing, Turner: Imagination and Reality, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1966, pp.23 reproduced, 61.
1969
John Gage, Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth, London 1969, pp.114–16, 251 n.199.
1973
Gerard Finley, ‘Turner’s Colour and Optics’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol.36, 1973, p.390, pl.65c.
1974
Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1974, p.181.
1980
Judy Egerton [and Clifford Ellis], ‘JMWT PP’: A Selection of Drawings Made by Turner to Illustrate his Royal Academy Lectures as Professor of Perspective, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1980, p.[6].
1994
Maurice Davies, ‘J.M.W. Turner’s Approach to Perspective in His Royal Academy Lectures of 1811’, unpublished Ph.D thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art 1994, p.285, BB ff.66–67.
1990
Martin Kemp, The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, New Haven and London 1990, p.301.
2004
Andrea Fredericksen, Vanishing Point: The Perspective Drawings of J.M.W. Turner, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2004, p.30, pl.20 (colour).