Inscribed on the verso, in brown ink, at bottom, "Swaenvelt del"; upside down at bottom, "No ["o" in superscript] 48" (effaced). On the old mount, with Knapton code, in brown ink, in center, "T-[or F] 25"; at upper left, "1072" (crossed out in graphite in another hand and changed to "1657"); and at upper right, "3N / L83".
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 64, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, under no. 340.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 283.
Watermark: none.
This particular group of trees appears, in reverse, in the artist's print "Landscape with Venus and Adonis", no. 4 in a series dated 1654.
Knapton, George, 1698-1778, former owner.
Morrison, George, General, former owner.
Morrison, Georgina, former owner.
Hawley, Joseph Henry, Sir, 1813-1875, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.