Baltimoreans frequently supported European artists who stayed for a time in Maryland. Ernst Fischer, who had trained in Dresden, Antwerp, and Paris, worked in Baltimore from the early 1840s through the mid-1850s. While here, he enjoyed the patronage of Dr. Thomas Edmondson (1808 – 1856), landed in a local newspaper as “a gentleman of liberal education and refined tastes [who] contributed with a generous hand and sound discriminating judgment to the advancement of Science and the Arts in this community.” Two years after Edmondson’s death, pictures from his estate, including 30 paintings by Fischer, were displayed at the Maryland Historical Society. This little sketch, set in the grounds of Harlem, Edmondson’s house west of the city, closely resembles a more finished work by Fischer, Country Life (A Baltimore Conversation Piece probably at ‘Harlem’). Here, close examination reveals the bust of Washington on a plinth above Dr. Edmondson. From Harlem, the doctor could enjoy a vista of Baltimore and the harbor beyond.