A View of an Italianate Fortress, a road in the foreground

Closely comparable to the artist's drawings of similar subject, handling and format in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, dated to Breenbergh's late Roman period of 1639, M. Roethlisberger, Bartholomäus Breenbergh. Handzeichnungen, Berlin, 1969, p. 46, nos. 144 and 145, both illustrated, and to the drawings in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, M. Schapelhouman, P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: artists born between 1580 and 1600, Amsterdam London, 1998, nos. 79-82, illustrated.