The drawing has been identified as a view of Kenilworth Castle, although apparently not on the basis of an inscription. Towne made two drawings of Kenilworth Castle on 28 August 1813 (FT757, FT758). Although no other visit to Kenilworth is known—and this drawing was certainly made ca. 1809–15—it is unlikely that it formed part of the 1813 sketchbook, as there is no record of it among drawings exhibited or sold by Walker’s Galleries, the purchaser of the sketchbook in August 1927. Stylistically it is more similar to drawings of the 1812–15 and 1815 sketchbooks, which are generally more slightly drawn and compositionally much less solid than the 1813 works. However, the drawing is not on paper from either of those sketchbooks. Its ownership by Bernard Milling in the mid-1940s strongly suggests that it was once the property of the Merivale family, and it is quite likely that this was the fifth late drawing or part of one of the sketchbooks among the “two small sketchbooks & five small drawings (late in date)” sold to Milling by Judith Merivale in 1945 for £50.