This drawing is taken from one of my landscape books which follows a tradition of the 19th century in Europe, as for example represented by the works of Franz Kobell. All of my drawings are done on site,whereas in the 19th century it was a usual manner to design picturesque landscapes from fantasy. Local studies were mostly used as "material" for the later compositions. However after Claude Lorrain drawing and painting on site became more and more popular until the movement culminated in Impressionism in the late 19 th century.