1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.744, CCXLIV 29, as ‘The student’.
1970
Lord Egremont and Kenneth Clark, Turner at Petworth: An Exhibition Arranged by the National Trust of Drawings of Petworth by J.M.W. Turner R.A. 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Petworth House, Petworth 1970.
1975
Andrew Wilton, Turner in the British Museum: Drawings and Watercolours, exhibition catalogue, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London 1975, pp.25, 88 no.131 reproduced as ‘Petworth: A man seated at a table in a study, examining a book’.
1979
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.164 pl.179, 165.
1982
Guy Weelan, J.M.W. Turner, trans. I. Mark Paris, New York 1982, p.78, pl.88.
1983
Lindsay Stainton and Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: Dibujos y acuarelas del Museo Británico, exhibition catalogue, Museo del Prado, Madrid 1983, no.53 reproduced.
1989
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner at Petworth: Painter and Patron, London 1989, pp.61, 70 note 1, 145, 146, 198 pl.48.
1990
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner: Les Années Egremont: Chefs d’oeuvre inédits, trans. Tamara Préaud, Paris 1990, pl.48.
1991
Ian Warrell, Turner: The Fourth Decade: Watercolours 1820–1830, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1991, p.61 under nos.66 and 67.
2006
Sam Smiles, The Turner Book, Essential Artists, London [Tate Publishing] 2006, p.177, 178 fig.100 [reversed].
2002
Christopher Rowell, Ian Warrell and David Blayney Brown, Turner at Petworth, exhibition catalogue, Petworth House, Petworth 2002, pp.151 fig.143, 153, 195 under no.65.
2009
David Solkin (ed.), Turner and the Masters, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2009, pp.174 under nos.64 and 65, 177 under nos.64 and 65, 230 note 5.
