1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.1162, CCCLIII 6, as ‘Burning blubber’.
1972
Kenneth Clark, Michael Kitson, John Gage and others, La Peinture romantique anglaise et les Préraphaélites, exhibition catalogue, Petit Palais, Paris 1972, p.[190] under no.276.
1974
Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy, London 1974, p.146 under no.524.
1975
Graham Reynolds, Turner 1775–1851: zhivopis', risunok, akvarel', exhibition catalogue, Hermitage Museum, Leningrad 1975, p.43 under no.65.
1984
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.261 under no.414, 271 under no.426.
1985
Barry Venning, ‘Turner’s Whaling Subjects’, The Burlington Magazine, vol.127, February 1985, p.75, p.[81] fig.13.
1845
Robert Upstone, Turner: The Final Years: Watercolours 1840–1851, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1993, reproduced in colour p.30, p.59 no.52, as ‘Whalers Boiling Blubber’, c.1845, reproduced.
1998
James Hamilton, Turner and the Scientists, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1998, p.140 no.91, as ‘Burning Blubber’, mid 1840s, fig.113 (colour).
1845
David Blayney Brown, Turner in the Tate Collection, London 2002, p.162, pl.116 (colour), as ‘Whalers (Boiling Blubber)’, c.1845.
1845
Alison Hokanson in Thomas P. Campbell and Hokanson, Turner’s Whaling Pictures, exhibition catalogue (reprinted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol.73, no.4, Spring 2016), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2016, p.[36] fig.35 (colour), as ‘Whalers Boiling Blubber’, c.1845, p.37.
