A starboard-broadside view of a Thames Peter boat, with her sail up, and what is probably a stern view of the same boat heeling slightly to port, set to the right of it. The broadside view shows two oar positions in the gunwale and the rudder, but no visible tiller. The drawing is presumably intended to record the appearance of the boat and its sprit rig since, though under sail, no-one is shown on board.

The Peter boat was a typical Thames fishing craft, of varying size, the larger ones being used from Greenwich (with whose local fishery they were especially associated) down to the Thames estuary. They had a wet fish-well in the centre, in which the catch could be kept alive until landed. Peter boats began to disappear when river pollution destroyed the Thames fishery in the later 19th century. Though well recorded in pictures, none survive, but the Museum has a good 19th-century model. Mounted with PAF0010 and bound with PAF0001–PAF0010, PAF0012–PAF0022.