A pierhead painting depicting a port near broadside view, taken from just ahead of the beam, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Chusan (1852) under way off a coast. She is shown under steam with most of her sails set but the fore course and fore topgallant are furled and the main topgallant is shortened. A museum copy transparency of a photographic print in the P & O Collection.