List Of Sources

The references in date order and which works they mention

In this list the works are concerned with the early oils and a limited number of watercolour-drawings

Oils painted before the 1793 RA Exhibition
• Rochester Castle and the adjacent Grounds
• Rochester Castle with Fishermen Drawing Boats Ashore In A Gale of Wind
• Self Portrait Age Sixteen
• The rising squall, hot wells, from St. Vincent's rock, Bristol

Oils painted after the 1793 RA Exhibition
• Portrait of Thomas Naylor Esq., Mayor of Liverpool, 1795 [info]
• The Country Waggon, Snowdon - Early Morning
• Battle of the Nile, 1799

Watercolour-drawings 1793 and before
• The Pantheon, The Morning After The Fire
• View on the river Avon, near St. Vincent's rock, Bristol
• Gate of St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury

Watercolour-drawings 1794 and after
• Sheffield from Derbyshire Lane
• Ruins of Waltham Abbey, 1796

Date Order:

.....for books, biographical works etc. the earliest date of the publication, the first edition or earliest edition where the work is mentioned

.....for ledgers including factual listings like Redford and Graves - the date for which the reference is listed

Hobart Town Exhibition Catalogue 1845
The rising squall, hot wells, from St. Vincent's rock, Bristol; as 'Landscape'
The Country Waggon, Snowdon - Early Morning; as 'View of Snowdon, North Wales'

Peter Cunningham, 'Memoire' published 1852; preface to Burnet's 'Turner and his Works'
The rising squall, hot wells, from St. Vincent's rock, Bristol; as 'Rising Squall over St. Vincent's Rocks at Bristol'
View on the river Avon, near St. Vincent's rock, Bristol ; as 'The Avon, near St. Vincent's Rocks'
The Pantheon, The Morning After The Fire; as 'View of the Pantheon'
(Cunningham does not mention the Rochester pictures)

Miller, 'Turner and Girtin's Picturesque Views, Sixty Years Since' 1854
Rochester Castle and the adjacent Grounds; as 'View of Rochester'
Rochester Castle with Fishermen Drawing Boats Ashore In A Gale of Wind; Miller conflates this with 'View of Rochester' [info]
(Miller does not mention 'The Rising Squall' at all.)

1857; Nephew's Letter; The Nephew of Margaret Martha Douglas (daughter of the Rev. James Douglas)
Rochester Castle and the adjacent Grounds

1860; Christies sale catalogue
Rochester Castle and the adjacent Grounds; as 'Rochester Castle'

1862; Thornbury, 'The Life of JMW Turner RA' [revised 1877, reprint 1897]
The rising squall, hot wells, from St. Vincent's rock, Bristol; [1862(I), p257; 1877, p415; 1897, p415]
The Pantheon, The Morning After The Fire; as 'The Pantheon after the fire' [1862(I), p257; 1877, p415; 1897, p415]
Sheffield from Derbyshire Lane; [see work]; as (1862)'Sheffield'; 1877&1897'a picture'; [1862(I), p257; 1877, p415; 1897, p415]

Christies, 1864

The Art Journal 1864

Richard and Samuel Redgrave, 'A Century of Painters' 1866

Samuel Redgrave, 'A Dictionary of Artists' 1874

1878 'A Dictionary of Artists' 1874, Reprint

1878; Philippe Daryl 'The Picture Amateur's Handbook and Dictionary of Painters'
The rising squall, hot wells, from St. Vincent's rock, Bristol; p223

1879; Cosmo Monkhouse 'Turner' [reprint 1882]
The rising squall, hot wells, from St. Vincent's rock, Bristol; p34
View on the river Avon, near St. Vincent's rock, Bristol ; p34
The Pantheon, The Morning After The Fire; p34
Battle of the Nile; p49

George Redford 'Art Sales' 1888

1890 'A Century of Painters' 1866, Reprint