Printed in brown ink. It is not clear to what the "Bracquemond portfolio" in the inscription refers. Most likely it is Keppel referring to his own "Bracquemond portfolio," the contents and whereabouts of which is unknown. However, in the Lucas letters, there is a April 16, 1896 letter from Keppel to Samuel Putnam Avery in which he discusses Lucas' interest in two proofs of two plates by Corot, which Keppel writes he had printed “for the first time ‘in their lives’” by “a first class printer who charged [him] a first class price.” Could he perhaps be referring to this print (and 1996.48.14724), even though it had been printed and published earlier? The "first class printer" could be referring to Bracquemond, who assisted in the printing of this plate when it was published for the Société des Aqua-fortistes and acted as the technical adviser for the printing of several other Corot plates. Melot makes a correction to earlier cataloguer's dates and states "the dates of 1866 and 1865 given respectively by Delteil and Beraldi are to be corrected since this plate was the first contribution of Corot to the Société des Aquafortistes, who published it as no. 38 in their eighth selection, April 1, 1863."