1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.558, as ‘General view of the Forum from the Via Sacra, showing the Capitol, the remains of the Temples of Saturn and Vespasian, the column of Phocas, Arch of Severus, &c.’.
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Powell, ‘Turner on Classic Ground: His Visits to Central and Southern Italy and Related Paintings and Drawings’, unpublished Ph.D thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London 1984, pp.116, 255, 256, 426, as ‘View of the Forum looking towards the Capitol and the Arch of Septimius Severus’.
1987
Cecilia Powell, Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence, New Haven and London 1987, pp.[42] note 17, 122 note 64.