On the left, a port bow view of a gaff-rigged dogger at anchor near the shore. In the centre middle-distance, a bezan-rigged boeier with a headsail boomed out and close on her starboard bow, a large boat crowded with people (inscribed ‘Klijner’, smaller). Another boat is pulling towards them in the right foreground. In the background, two ships are at anchor.

This is an unsigned pencil and wash drawing by the Elder.