Most of John Glover's Tasmanian paintings are of the immediate surroundings of his properties in Hobart, at Bagdad and on the Nile River at Patterdale; At Moulting Lagoon is one of only two known works which depict the island's east coast. It presents the view southward from the head of Moulting Lagoon looking past Great Swanport down Great Oyster Bay. The Freycinet Peninsula with Mt Freycinet's distinctive profile is visible at the left, in the centre the coast retreats in a series of successively paleing and blueing promontories towards Cape Bougainville, while on the right the landscape rises in a series of hills to Mt Ponsonby and Mt Cartwright.

Panorama of Australian Paintings 1818 -1968, Xavier College 1968, cat. no. 6 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, on loan 1997 -2001 Annual Collectors' Exhibition 2001, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart December 2002, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Leonard Joel, Melbourne, November 1975, lot 244 Don Cornes, Sydney 1975 private collection, Melbourne