Similar in style to other late, thinly painted 'unfinished' oils from the Turner Bequest and elsewhere. Unlike many of this group it is not, however, based on a Liber Studiorum design, but Michael Kitson suggests that, like the Louvre and Port Sunlight pictures (Nos.620 and 621) it shows a view generalised from some place in the British Isles ('Nouvelles Précisions sur le "Paysage" de Turner du Musée du Louvre' in La Revue du Louvre XXI, 1971, pp.89-93). The painting was probably bought by Robert Durning Holt in the late 1870s but its earlier history is unknown (see Kitson ibid, p.90).