John Ruskin; recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), in 1871; Arthur Severn; purchased by the Whitworth Art Gallery from Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1925.
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London: Colnaghi's, 1967, English Drawings: A Loan Exhibition from the Whitworth Art Gallery ([London: Colnaghi's], [1967]), no. 21
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 138
[Nugent, Charles], From View to Vision: British Watercolours from Sandby to Turner in the Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester: Whitworth Art Gallery, 1993), no. 32, p. 125, p. 28
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Ruskin, John, ‘Notes By Mr. Ruskin ... on His Drawings by the Late J. M. W. Turner, R. A., [and] on His Own Handiwork Illustrative of Turner’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 13, no. 11 = XIII.419-420