The small damage and repair to this apparently unique impression at the upper right (as described above and as illustrated by Dube) appears to have been done by the artist. The vertical lines in this area must be a result of a small section of paper being compacted concertina fashion during the printing process and the artist must have flattened the section prior to the application of the various washes. The manner in which the colours fit so precisely into some of the black areas of the compositoin (e.g. the light blue wash in the sky at the top) suggest that they must have been applied to a still damp impression, the oily black ink of the woodcut repelling the more watery colour washes in most areas except where densely applied with resultant pools.

The 'Sandberge' are a range of hills in Engadine, Switzerland. There is a related painting in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (D. E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968, no. 506, illustrated).