Black chalk, grey wash, 155 x 300 mm. A 30 mm wide strip of paper added on the right. Some brown stains. Laid down. Numbered in the lower right corner 2060 (Sparre) and 29 (struck out). Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

An attribution to Aert van der Neer of this previously anonymous drawing appears in the 1790 inventory, in a marginal note. However, the drawing has little in common with known works by him. This is a sober rendering of a place, with none of Van der Neer’s concern for light effects. Possible attributions range from Beerstraten to Waterloo. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 264]