Looking along a low shoreline, with an embankment on the right and patches of mud running out to the left where a kaag is ashore. A withy pole beyond marks the low-water line. A house is half-concealed behind scrub on the shore with another boat just in front. Ships are pictured at anchor in the distance. The drawing is pencilled on the back for tracing and is one of a group of twelve drawings of shore scenes or distant views of the Dutch coastline in pen and brown ink (PAE5158, PAE5159, PAE5160, PAE5161, PAE5162, PAE5163, PAE5164, PAE5165, PAE5166, PAE5167, PAE5168, PAE5169). It is likely from the appearance of the ships in all these works that they were made in the 1650s. They were probably done in connection with the elder van de Velde's earliest pen-paintings, since he probably did not need such sketches later, and had passed as by several different artists until re-attributed by Sir Bruce Ingram.