This watercolour is one of a group painted by William Leighton Leitch, who was probably suggested by Charlotte Canning, his pupil and the Queen's lady in waiting, as a suitable artist to invite to paint views of the scenery. Leitch later became Victoria’s own watercolour tutor for almost twenty years.

This watercolour was originally mounted in View Album II. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert compiled nine View Albums during their marriage. These albums contained watercolours and drawings documenting their life together and were arranged in chronological order. The albums were dismantled in the early twentieth century and rebound in new volumes both in a different arrangement and with additional items, but a written record of their original contents and arrangement still exists.