This drawing shows a close debt to Towne’s drawing style the viewpoint is similar to that of Towne’s panoramic view of Lausanne (FT384). Even so, it is clearly a copy after a 1774 etched view of Lausanne by Balthasar Anton Dunker, after Johann Ludwig Aberli (example in the British Museum, 1958,0712.547). It is the only dated example among three watercolours by Mackinnon now known. As in the other copy after Aberli by Mackinnon, it seems likely that his immediate source was a watercolour by Towne since it uses a palette characteristic of Towne's work and the treatment of foliage, foreground and some minor details in the landscape diverge from the etching (such as the absence of clouds, the general treatment of the snow-capped mountains on the horizon the far shore of the lake, and the size of the bushes at the extreme left of the view immediately in front of the garden wall).