Study of recollection of drawings based on labels
Based on your description I was able to find the following:

-Klatzky, R.L. &amp; Rafnel, K. (1976).Labeling effects on memory for nonsense pictures. Memory &amp; Cognition, 4(6), 717-720. (there is a pdf version on researchgate.net, I couldn't upload it here)

-Bower, G.H., Karlin, M.B., &amp; Dueck, A. (1975). Comprehension and memory for pictures. Memory and Cognition, 3(2), 216-220. (pdf here)

However, the design and results of those studies are a bit different from what you describe. Labeling facilitated free recall (reproduction) better than no labeling when someone was presented with droodles (images with no meaning). Also, in the Klatzky and Rafnel study, it was shown that meaningful labels contributed to significantly better free recall of images than meaningless labels. So I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but you can take a look.