Medium weight linen canvas. Relined. Original tacking margins retained at time of lining. Warm grey ground extends over tacking edges. Visual examination and sampling by Anne Baxter, 1982, who noted: Oil on primed, lined and stretched canvas. Simple, closed weave flax fibre 16 x 17 threads. Warm grey ground. Cusps on all four sides indicate that the painting was primed on a loom the same size as the stretcher or possibly on the stretcher itself. The painting was done in two stages, with red earth paint clearly visible directly in the ground delineating the townscape, while the figures were drawn in on top of the painting of the landscape. The blue pigment of the sky, which is sketchy, was found to be indigo or a similar organic dye.