The treatment of this drawing is particularly close to that of the Landscape with Cart, Figures and Ruins, in the Pierpont Morgan Library (Hayes, op.cit., no.356). Both are typical of a group of works in which Gainsborough sought to achieve the weight of oil paintings (see Hayes, op.cit., pp.23, 43, 130). In 1772 he exhibited ten such landscapes, 'in imitation of oil painting', at the Royal Academy, nos.98 and 99