In the left foreground, five figures walking up the shore to the right; a weyschuit and another vessel hauled well up the shore near an embankment. Several vessels are lying beyond a pier in the centre middle-distance. A ship and other vessels lying becalmed out in the stream on the left. A village in the right distance.

This is pencil and wash drawing by the Elder with the initials ‘WVV’ in brown ink.