It's a sketch for an engraving from the series entitled "Four landscapes" (Opus VII). It had been sold on auction at the Börner salon in Leipzig, in 1924. Afterwards it joined the Leo Smoschewer's collection. In 1939 the engraving was sequestrated as a Jewish property and then it reached the Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste in Wroclaw, where it was registered in the inventory under the No. 27783. Since 1946 the engraving has been stored in the National Museum of Warsaw.

Wertvolle Handzeichnungen alter und neuerer Meister des XV. bis XIX. Jahrhunderts: Dabei die bekannte Handzeichnungssammlung von Geheimrat A. Köster, Versteigerung C.G. Börner, Leipzig, 13.11.1924, No. 226

Anna Kozak, Mistrzowie rysunku niemieckiego. Ze zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie, Warszawa 1991, p. 106

Cykle graficzne maxa Klingera, Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Poznań 1993, p. 101

• Dr. Hans-Joachim Hinz