As Girtin and Bell point out this is an idealised landscape with both Italian and English features. The hills in the left foreground with the circular fortified towers, together with the distant hills on the left, are close to those in Cozen's View near Velletri, signed and dated 1780 (Bell and Girtin no. 97, repr. Walker's Galleries, 26th Exhibition of English Watercolours, 1930, no. 40), and to two drawings done near Velletri in the Beckford Sketchbooks (vol. I no. 32 verso, and vol. V no. 24). On the other hand the thatched cottage on the right and the adjacent tree look English.

Another version of this watercolour by Cozens was sold in these Rooms from the N.D. Newall collection, 13 December 1979, lot 24, repr. in colour