The copperplate was not in any of the major collections and is probably not anymore in existence.

This is one of the five prints in which Rembrandt combines a flat, typically Dutch countryside with mountains in the background. Gersaint considered this plate and the next one (B236) as being one plate. However, the perspectives of both prints are clearly different, so his assumption was probably incorrect.

The plate was originally called Het Stapeltje Riet op de Voorgrond (Bundle of reed in the foreground), but it was soon changed to Een Landschapje met een hoge Berg en een Visschertje aan het Water (Landscape with a high mountain and a fisherman by the water).

The two swans (or geese?) are well visible as are the cows in the meadow

The etching is considered as special by Bartsch and De Claussin.

All authors list two states.
In the 1st state (NH, WB, R625, NU) the left side of the meadow with the cows is still white.
In the 2nd state (NHD, WB, R626, NU) the left side of the meadow, around the grazing cows, is shaded with diagonal lines. Shading has been added to the belt of trees above the cows and to parts of the buildings. The outline of the right hand part of the belt of trees has been redrawn.

Of the 1st state only eight impressions are known, of which four on Japanese paper (in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, in the Ashmolean Museum, in the Lugt Collection and in the British Museum).

In the 2nd state: Foolscap; Posthorn with cm IR; Strasbourg lily (2 ed.). A total of four editions, printed in the early 1650’s (HD).

H 238, BB 50-A, G 227, M 238, Mz 161, RA 625-626, Cl 232, W 232, Bl 335, Du 232, CD 198
Wandelingen 1998, p. 319; Hinterding 2008, p. 443-446;