Rhymer's Glen was an area of picturesque woodland much loved by Sir Walter Scott on his Abbotsford estate. The author's walking stick is included beside the bench. Turner visited Abbotsford in August 1831 as part of his preparations for the ambitious project to illustrate Robert Cadell's edition of Scott's 'Works'. Scott died the following year when Turner was in France and it has been suggested that this vignette is in part Turner's tribute to the continued influence of Scott's writing on his own perceptions of landscape. It was engraved as the title vignette for volume XXI of Cadell's 'Works of Sir Walter Scott'.