An extensive coastal landscape with a procession of figures in the foreground and buildings on the water (recto); Study of a crouching man, his profile and a foot (verso)

Two similarly swiftly rendered landscapes from the Ellesmere Collection dating to the artist's last years are in the British Museum, London (inv. 1972,0722.13; D. Benati, The Drawings of Annibale Carracci, exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1999, no. 95, ill.) and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (inv. C1973/2303). Annibale suffered from illness as early as 1605, which made it impossible for him to undertake new projects. Only a few works are known from the last years of his life apart from some etchings and remarkably suggestive drawings – fewer lines and a vaster, more rhythmic treatment of receding planes and distant space.