Like the etching “From Åsgårdstrand” (inv. no. B 1956/2004,b) published in Gustav Schiefler’s 1907 catalog raisonné, this sheet is also one of the rare pure landscape depictions in Edvard Munch’s prints. It was created for Hermann Struck’s handbook, “The Art of Etching”, which was published by Paul Cassirer in Berlin in 1908. Highly sought-after, it went through four further editions by 1923. In addition to Munch’s sheet, four further prints by Max Liebermann, Paul Baum, Anders Zorn and Hermann Struck himself were included. It is said that the etching, which was based on the painting “Early Spring in Åsgårdstrand” from 1905, was the first work that Munch produced when he was a patient in Dr. Jacobson’s clinic in Copenhagen after his collapse. Struck wrote to him at the end of September 1908 asking for a contribution to his book and thanked him on October 20 for receiving the plate, which was printed in the Pan-Presse in Berlin.