Perhumid cold lowlands, low hills and low ranges, comprising most of coastal and inland western Tasmania. Folding and subsequent erosion has resulted in rugged dissected inland ranges dominated by Precambrian and Cambrian rocks supporting oligotrophic acid peat soils or shallow organic horizons over deep mineral profiles. From 300 metres elevation a discontinuous coastal plain slopes westward to the ocean. Vegetation is a complex mosaic of rainforest (Nothofagus), buttongrass (Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus) moorlands and Eucalyptus nitida scrub. Principal land uses are conservation, mining and forestry.⁴

John Glover RBA (18 February 1767 – 9 December 1849) was an English-born artist. In later life he migrated to Van Diemen’s Land and became a pastoralist during the early colonial period. He has been dubbed "the father of Australian landscape painting." Glover decided to move to Australia, arriving in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) on his 64th birthday in 1831. He brought with him a strong reputation as a landscape painter. From April 1831 until early 1832 he lived in Hobart on a property named "Stanwell Hall", which can be seen in his work Hobart Town, taken from the garden where I lived. In 1832 he acquired one of the largest grants of land in Van Diemen's Land at the time at Mills Plains, Deddington. Glover is best known now for his paintings of the Tasmanian landscape. He gave a fresh treatment to the effects of the Australian sunlight on the native bushland by depicting it bright and clear, a definite departure from the darker "English country garden" paradigm. Note this example Patterdale Farm (circa 1840). His treatment of the local flora was also new because it was a more accurate depiction of the Australian trees and scrubland. Glover noted the "remarkable peculiarity of the trees" in Australia and observed that "however numerous, they rarely prevent your tracing through them the whole distant country".

This landscape is thought to be a composite painting using imagery from his British sketchbooks. During his time painting in Tasmania, Glover found there was demand for paintings that featured more European views.