Arthur Negus Fuller (1879-1945) employed a formula used by landscape painters in composing this scene. The brightly-lit distant vantage point appears behind a darkened middle ground, in this case a wooded area, to create a beguiling effect. Arthur was the youngest son of George and Agnes (Higginson) Fuller of Deerfield, Massachusetts. In 1915, he purchased the Little Brown House and studio barn on Albany Road in Deerfield and that same year, began printing monotypes. In 1919, he bought a printing press with his brother, Henry, for their shared Boston studio and in 1920, they bought a second press for their studio at the Little Brown House. Arthur’s first intaglio etchings date from this time. Intaglio, or colored, etchings are printed with a single pass through the press. Fuller accomplished this by first inking the lines on the copper plate, wiping off the excess, then lightly daubing ink where he wanted color, using the tip of a twisted cloth. Consequently, each intaglio print in an edition is slightly different from the next.