A large Italianate landscape of the kind exhibited by Turner from 'Bay of Baiae' onwards, but in this case perhaps not carried quite to the degree of finish he deemed necessary for an exhibited work of this character. It is probably the 'Scriptural subject . . . 7’ 10" z 4’ 10" listed as No.251 in the Schedule of the Turner Bequest and seems to show Christ and the Woman of Samaria by Jacob's Well (John IV, 6-7), set in a landscape with an Italian hill town similar to but not the same as Tivoli (see No.477). The composition, with the hill town on the left and the avenue of trees on the right, is particularly close to 'Palestrina', begun in Rome in 1828 as a companion to Lord Egremont's Claude of 'Jacob and Laban' and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1830 (Tate Gallery 6283). The composition, like that of 'Orvieto', is considerably more restrained than the earlier 'Bay of Baiæ' or such later examples as 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Italy' (R.A. 1832; Tate Gallery 516). Turner's second visit to Rome in 1828 may have produced a return to classical discipline, though to date this picture c.1830 on such grounds is perhaps rather foolhardy.