J. Britton, Gallery of Cleveland House , London 1808, no. 242;
W.J. Ottley, Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures in London , London 1818, no. 128, described in vol. 3;
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné... , vol. VI, London 1835, pp. 381-82, no. 219;
A. Jameson, Companion to the Most Celebrated Galleries of Art in London , London 1844, pp. 77ff.;
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. 2, p. 51, no. 7 ("Much more carefully executed in the details, and far more harmonious in its delicate grey tone, than most of the larger sea-pieces by this master that I have seen");
F.T. Kugler and G.F. Waagen, Handbook of Painting. .., London 1860, p. 465;
Bridgewater House Catalogue , London 1903, no. 110;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné... , vol VII, London 1923, p. 13, no. 27;
Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures... of the Earl of Ellesmere at Bridgewater House, Cleveland Square, etc , London 1926, no. 134;
K. Zoege von Mantteufel, in U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler , vol. XXXV, Leipzig 1940, p. 204;
J. de Bruyn Kops, ‘De Amsterdamse verzamelaar Jan Gildemeester Jansz.', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum , 13, 1965, p. 114, note 54;
F.L. Fox, Great Ships , London 1980, p. 45, reproduced in colour;
M.S. Robinson, Van de Velde. A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and Younger Willem van de Velde , Greenwich 1990, vol. I, pp. 143-45, no. 75, reproduced;
G.S. Keyes, Mirror of Empire. Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century , exh. cat., Cambridge and Minneapolis 1990, pp. 174-76, no. 40, reproduced in colour p. 175 (also p. 261, under no. 40).
ENGRAVED
By T.C. Busky, 1812;
By William Young Ottley, 1818.