1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.351, CXXIII 174a, as ‘Verses’.
1990
Robert Upstone, ‘Picture Note 1: Portsmouth Harbour: The Entry of the French Prizes’, Turner Studies, vol.10, no.1, Summer 1990, p.54.
1990
Andrew Wilton and Rosalind Mallord Turner, Painting and Poetry: Turner’s ‘Verse Book’ and his Work of 1804–1812, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1990, p.175.
1995
Judy Egerton, ‘Part II: J.M.W. Turner, RA’ in Egerton, Martin Wyld and Ashok Roy, Making & Meaning: Turner: The Fighting Temeraire, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery, London 1995, p.70.
2005
Jan Piggott, ‘“A Sea of Blood”: Turner and Napoleon: The 2005 Kurt Pantzer Memorial Lecture, Part II’, Turner Society News, no.101, December 2005, p.7.