Richter lived in Italy from 1823-1826. In his memoirs, he later wrote about the artists' community in Rome and how they worked and travelled together. He spent the summer of 1826 in Olevano, where he probably also created the fine pen and brush drawing of a garden gate. Individual figure-, landscape- and architectural sketches on the reverse identify the drawing as a page from a sketchbook. Comparisons with two drawings by Reinhold and Nerly from 1822 and 1829/30 suggests that this is the gate to the archpriest's vineyard in Olevano.