J. Mayne, 'John Constable's sketches and studies', in Antiques Review, no. 1, December 1950, pp. 21–23, reproduced pl. 1;
L. Parris and I. Fleming-Williams, Constable. Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate exh. cat., London 1976, p. 108, under no. 165;
R. Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, Milan 1979, p. 111, no. 253, reproduced;
G. Reynolds, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, 2 vols, New Haven and London 1984, text vol., pp. 28 and 30, no. 19.3, plates vol., reproduced pl. 70;
L. Parris and I. Fleming-Williams, 'Book Review of The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXXVII, no. 984, March 1985, p. 167;
C. Rhyne, 'Constable's first two six-foot landscapes', in Studies in the History of Art, vol. 24, 1990, p. 124, reproduced fig. 17;
J. Hayes, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art. Systematic Catalogues: British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries, Washington 1992, p. 33, reproduced fig. 5 (as 'Willy Lott's House and Thatched boat Shelter and Barn');
A. Lyles (ed.), Constable. The Great Landscapes, exh. cat., Tate, London 2006, p. 134 (as a sketch for the painting at the Frick).