A Dutch flagship coming to anchor flying the flag of a rear-admiral and a green and white jack of Rotterdam. To the left is a two-decker coming to the wind close to the shore before anchoring. The anchor is clearly visible and about to be dropped. The ship has four guns showing on the lower deck, while the ports further forward are closed. She flies a flag at the mizzen mast and a pendant at the fore which signifies a rear-admiral of either the second or van squadron. She also flies a green and white nine-striped jack.

In the right foreground is a fishing pink in the wind with another one further to the right. Beyond and in the distance on the right is a pierhead with two men silhouetted on it. In the left background a ship can be seen under reduced sail with more ships under sail in the distance. In the right foreground there is a barrel on which there is the artist’s monogram. Two porpoises are clearly visible in the foreground on the right.

This is probably a good 19th-century copy from a version no longer known, done for a Rotterdam customer. The prime version from which John Boydell published a well-known print (in reverse) in 1765 has a 'triple-prince' red, white and blue jack on both ships shown (not the green and white of Rotterdam), and that in the foreground may have been intended as the 'Utrecht' when under the command of Cornelis Evertsen the Younger in 1665.