Comparable to drawings of similar technique in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (M. Schapelhouman, P. Schatborn, Land & Water, Dutch drawings from the 17th Century in the Rijksmuseum Print Room, Zwolle/Amsterdam, 1987, pp. 56-7) and in the Fondation Custodia, Institut Néerlandais, Paris (C. van Hasselt, Dessins de Paysagistes Hollandais du XVIIe Siècle, Paris, 1968, nos. 148-9 , pls. 38-9). All these drawings show the influence of Claude Lorraine, whom Van Swanevelt knew when living in Rome between circa 1629 and 1641. Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann advanced an attribution to Bartholomeus Breenbergh in a letter of 1988