Recently re-attributed to Wright of Derby, the present picture is after the works of the same title executed by Richard Wilson in the 1760s. Arguably Wilson's most popular composition, he and his studio are known to have produced at least twenty versions of the picture, examples are in the Toledo Museum of Art and the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass. (see D.H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, The Landscape of Reaction, London, Tate Gallery, 1982, nos. 103 & 104) Wright executed a number of Wilsonian landscapes in the 1780s and 1790s (eg. Lake Nemi, Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, Conn.). The key difference in the present picture over the Wilson originals is the omission of a group of figures in the right-hand foreground.