This work depicts two coastlines. The upper image shows a coastline possibly in Zeeland, with two churches in the dunes on the left, which run away to a harbour in the far distance on the right. The lower image shows a coastline with two churches in the dunes in the centre and a beacon on the left.

This work 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.