1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.745, CCXLIV 77, as ‘Room, with fire burning, and two figures–one, a man in black on couch; the other, a lady in blue seated reading’.
1914
Isaac J. Williams, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Welsh Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., exhibition catalogue, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 1914, no.125 as ‘Room, with Fire burning and two Figures–one a man in black on a couch; the other, a lady in blue, seated’.
1949
Douglas Cooper, William Turner 1775–1851, Paris 1949, pl.51.
1975
Andrew Wilton, Turner in the British Museum: Drawings and Watercolours, exhibition catalogue, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London 1975, pp.25, 94 no.143 as ‘Petworth: A woman in blue seated reading to a lame man lying on a sofa in a room with a fire’.
1975
Gerald Wilkinson, Turner’s Colour Sketches 1820–34, London 1975, p.56 reproduced.
1983
Lindsay Stainton and Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: Dibujos y acuarelas del Museo Británico, exhibition catalogue, Museo del Prado, Madrid 1983, no.56, p.73 reproduced.
1986
Haruki Yaegashi, Martin Butlin, Evelyn Joll and others, Turner Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo 1986, no.91 reproduced as ‘Petworth: A Woman reading to a Man lying on a Sofa’.
1989
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner at Petworth: Painter and Patron, London 1989, pp.61, 69, 70 note 1, 146, 147, 210 pl.60.
1990
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner: Les Années Egremont: Chefs d’oeuvre inédits, trans. Tamara Préaud, Paris 1990, pl.60.
2002
Christopher Rowell, Ian Warrell and David Blayney Brown, Turner at Petworth, exhibition catalogue, Petworth House, Petworth 2002, pp.164, 167 fig.159, 195 under no.72.
