A watercolour view of the Pheasantry at Callenberg, with the Veste Coburg in the distance.

Brückner was from a family of theatrical stage designers and painters. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert acquired a substantial corpus of watercolours by Brückner and his father Heinrich depicting the landscapes and sights in and around Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the duchy of Prince Albert's family. Max Brückner's works tend to be bolder and more painterly in technique than those of his father.

The Queen and Prince Consort visited Coburg twice, in 1845 and 1860, and the Queen then returned on a number of occasions following Albert's death in 1861. This drawing is likely datable to the Royal visit of 1860, as the castle of the Veste Coburg in the distance shows the alterations that had been completed by 1858. The Pheasantry, decorated with antlers, survives in an altered form.

Together, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert mounted many of their watercolour views of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in three albums, and a survivng typescript list of their contents is presumed to accurately reflect their arrangement. These albums were dismantled around 1930 and many of the watercolours rearranged in the new, topographical, Souvenir Albums. The first of the albums, from which this watercolour derives, seems to have largely contained watercolours related to the visit of the Royal couple in 1845 with a few works, such as this one, from a later date.