Escher described the genesis of this work: “I was walking over a little bridge in the woods [near my home] at Baarn, and there it was, right before my eyes. I simply had to make a print of it! The title emerged directly from the scene itself. I returned home and started straightaway on the drawing. Escher’s title for this tranquil and mysterious late autumn landscape offers insight into the way he looked at the world around him, particularly the way that the reflective and transparent surface of the water serves as an interface between the other two worlds above and below it.