A watercolour depicting eleven children harvesting grapes, with baskets, a barrel and a goat, against a black background.

This work is a copy of the left-hand side of an engraving by the Master I.B., which reproduces a design reputed to be by Raphael. It was given by Ludwig Grüner, Art Advisor to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, to the Queen as a gift, possibly as a means of introducing Consoni's work to her. Grüner and Consoni collaborated on a number of artistic projects when they both lived in Rome in the late 1830s, and Consoni was later commissioned to produce designs for several interior decoration schemes in the new East Wing of Buckingham Palace (in the 1850s) and for the royal mausoleum at Frogmore erected in memory of Prince Albert during the next decade. Both of these endeavours were superintended by Grüner.

Prince Albert had a deep interest in Raphael, and in 1853 commenced a scholarly project to assemble a corpus of reproductions (first prints, and then utilising the new technology of photography) after all the known works by the artist. An impression of the print by Master I.B., of which this watercolour is a copy, is found in the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (RCIN 851916). Consoni had a well-established reputation as one of the greatest emulators of Raphael in the nineteenth century, which would have made his work particularly attractive to Albert and Victoria.