In its delicacy, combined with the use of the texture of the laid paper, this drawing resembles such early drawings as A Copse (detail repr. I. Fleming-Williams, Constable: Landscape Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1976, p.17 fig.8, as of 1799), though it may be a few years later. Nearly twenty years later Constable took up the theme again in the much more sophisticated Elm Trees in Old Hall Park, East Bergholt of 1817 (repr. Fleming-Williams, op.cit., pp.60-61 fig.43 and pl.22) and Trees on the Tow-Path at Flatford, also of 1817 (repr. Constable, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, June-September 1991 pp.436 no.281).