The verso, drawn rapidly in pen, clearly preceeded the recto, in which the same bank, with mountains behind is considered in more elaborate detail. Perugino and a number of his associates were unquestionably interested in landscape motifs, but very few Umbrian drawings of such subjects survive. Similar banks appear in a number of compositions of the 1480s by Perugino and painters under his influence: perhaps the closest is that in the fresco of the Nativity by an assistant of Pinturiccio- who was presumably ultimately responsible for the design in the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican. A landscape drawing in the same technique as the recto, perhaps marginally later in date, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library