A near view showing on the left a boat with Barbary pirates, one holding an ensign, one with sword and shield, one with a drum and two rowing. A boat crowded with Dutch or English is close alongside to starboard. A man standing up in the stern sheets is shown firing a musket.

This is an unsigned drawing by the Younger, in pen and brown ink with a grey wash. It is inscribed in a n early hand in brown ink ‘W.V.Velde.’