This is one of a group of perhaps sixty-eight Wilson was commissioned to make by Lord Dartmouth during his visit to Rome in 1753, of which twenty-five survive. They are perhaps the most important group of Wilson's drawings in existence. This drawing, may be a design made up of a number of elements, probably taken from buildings and fountains in the Villa Borghese, or it may be an actual view. The fountain too may be a real one, but it has not been possible to identify it with certainty today, and it may well have been destroyed