The present view may have been drawn from the dunes near the village of Bloemendaal looking south-west over the bleaching fields towards Haarlem. Mr. Wim Post has kindly suggested that the drawing could be dated before 1636, the year the church at Bloemendaal was built, as it does not appear in the view. The buildings at the left may be the Huis Aelbertsberg, also called the Huis te Bloemendaal. The Saint Bavo or Grote Kerk in Haarlem cannot be seen as it is situated slightly further to the east. The drawing may be compared to the painted and drawn views by Jacob van Ruisdael of the same subject including the Grote Kerk as seen from a slightly more south-eastern viewpoint (H.R. Hoetink, F.J. Duparc, Jacob van Ruisdael 1628/29-1682, exhib. cat., Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1981-82, nos. 44-5 and 88-91).
A Waterloo drawing very comparable to the present lot is in the Albertina, Vienna (M. Bisanz-Prakken, Die Landschaft im Jahrhundert Rembrandts, Niederländische Zeichnungen des 17. Jahrhunderts aus der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina, exhib. cat., Albertina, Vienna, 1993, pp. 120-1, no. 66).
A number of other panoramic topographical landscapes by Waterloo, some drawn in the neighbourhood of Haarlem, have survived. Of these an extensive view of Noordwijk with Leiden in the distance was sold in these Rooms, 14 November 1988, lot 101. Another such view of Noordwijk is in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, A. Kraayenga, Hollandse Panorama's uit de 17de-19de eeuw, tekeningen en prenten uit de collectie van Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 1984, no. 11, inv.no. P12. A panoramic view of the dunes with Haarlem beyond is at New Haven, Yale University Art Bulletin 33, 1971, p. 42, illustrated