When the Argus newspaper reviewed this picture, it wrote: 'M. Von Guérard's strength lies in his airy distances, and in his masterly treatment of mountain scenery. It may sound like a paradox to say so, but he is at once the most literal and most poetic translator of mountain scenery. He studies it with the eye of a poet, and he depicts it with the hand of a conscientious artist'.

This was the first work by von Guérard to enter an Australian public collection.