In the left foreground, a lee bow view of a yacht close-hauled on the port tack under mainsail, foresail and jib. In the background, a ship with flag at the main, dead before the wind under clewed courses and topsails lowered on the cap.

This is a pencil drawing by the Younger, signed in brown ink ‘W.V.VJ.’ It is inscribed with an ‘L’ (light) in the sky.