From 24 June to 22 July 1814, Fohr stayed in Baden at the invitation of Hereditary Princess Wilhelmine of Hesse. During this time, he sketched the Black Forest region in pencil and pen, later turning them into colourful watercolours and compiling them into a Sketchbook of Baden's surroundings. This drawing is also based on a pen and ink drawing. On the rocky ridge in Gaggenau, a stately manor house towers above the river Murg, which was renamed Amalienberg by the entrepreneur Anton Rindenschwender in the 1780s after the visit of Baden's hereditary princess Amalie von Hessen-Darmstadt.