It was painted in the early 1620s, and is currently housed at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.

The painting is a view of Bracciano, a small town today part of the Italian region of Lazio (in Bril's day within the Papal States), 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of Rome.

Bril completed this work during his stay in Italy, where he probably arrived in 1582,[4] and went on to become "perhaps the most popular painter of landscapes in Rome in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

"[5] In the foreground, an armed carriage drawn by six horses and followed by two dogs is travelling to a castle commanding a small town.

[2][3] The Roy and Marjory Edwards Bequest Fund and the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation acquired the painting in 2007.