1904
E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn eds., Library Edition: The Works of John Ruskin: Volume XIII: Turner: The Harbours of England; Catalogues and Notes, London 1904, p.630 no.451[c], as one of four ‘Companions to the foregoing’, i.e. no.450, ‘Four Sketches at and near York’.
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.423, CXLVI 32, as ‘Knaresborough. Page 31 [a mistake for the present page] is Exhibited Drawing, No.451c, N.G.’.
1974
Gerald Wilkinson, The Sketches of Turner, R.A. 1802–20: Genius of the Romantic, London 1974, p.150 reproduced.
1979
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.394, no.804.
1980
David Hill, Stanley Warburton, Mary Tussey and others, Turner in Yorkshire, exhibition catalogue, York City Art Gallery 1980, p.93 , no.147.