Pen and brown ink, grey wash, 206 x 322 mm. Ruled framing lines in brown ink. Oil stain at the upper right. No watermark. Chain lines: 24 mm. Inscribed at the lower left, in pen and brown ink, JBo(th?), monogrammed. Inscribed in the upper right corner with a circle, a red triangle (mark of the Karlberg Collection) and N:o 7, in pen and brown ink. Inscribed on the verso, in pen and brown ink, Jan Bodt.

Although stylistically close to Both’s other two Italian landscapes (entries 88 and 89), there is a subtle difference: the pen strokes are more repetitive and prominent in relation to the wash, and the shading is less distinct and does not of itself create forms as in those two drawings. The inscription JBo(th) is rather clumsy and not quite convincing as a signature. Perhaps the drawing should be attributed to Jan Hackaert, who is sometimes confused with Both. Interestingly, another landscape drawing, also from the Karlberg Collection and inscribed with the name of Hackaert, is numbered N:o 6, while this is N:o 7.

Basically the same landscape is found in a drawing by Both in the British Museum, but some features are different and others have changed places. In the London drawing, the small waterfall on the left is crossed by a bridge with handrails. In the present one, the waterfall is in the same position, but there is an unintelligible scribble instead of the bridge. This points to this drawing being an imprecise copy. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 91]