The works he painted for the tourist trade fall into two broad classes: Swiss scenes, mainly of Lake Lucerne, and standard picturesque views of the Roman Campagna. The Butler Institute painting, however, partakes of both. Long called Landscape Near Rome, it was executed when he spent the summer around Lake Albano and in the Sabine mountains. A slightly smaller variant, with different figures in the foreground, was called View of Lake Albano when it passed through auction in 1984. Nevertheless, the landscape does not look like the scenery to the south and east of Rome.