An atmospheric aerial perspective view, looking north-west towards London, as if from a balloon above a point just east of the Royal Observatory, which appears at the bottom left corner. A sailing ship is under tow upstream by a tug, off the Royal Naval College, with Thames barges and other craft visible in the river as it snakes round into Deptford Reach. From left to right on the Greenwich side appear the towers of St Alfege and St Mary's Churches, the latter demolished in 1936, the Queen's House and present NMM buildings (then the Royal Hospital School) with the drill ship 'Fame' on the central axis of the parade ground to the north, and the houses east of Park Row.

On close examination, the representation of the Royal Naval College and the former Dreadnought Hospital to its west on Romney Road is somewhat incohate, with these very separate buildings rolled together and leaving an open area (which does not exist) between them and King William Walk (north): the Pepys Building complex by the pier and the Royal Naval College West Gate are also missing here. Beyond this space on the riverfront can be seen the bulk of the now-vanished Ship Hotel and the houses behind, where the 'Cutty Sark' now stands (since 1954). The cupola of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel (1902) is visible to the left of the hotel. The print is signed in pencil by the artist, lower left, below the image. This is one of a number of Wyllie prints acquired from Lott and Gerrish in 1982, to strengthen the NMM holding. It relates very closely to a large oil painting, dated 1924 and now called 'View from Greenwich Park', held in the Greenwich Heritage Centre. This was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1924 with the title 'The flowing river winds past Palace, Park, and the homes of toiling millions'. It is listed in the appendix of Wyllie’s works shown at the RA in 'We Were One' (his biography, by his wife Marion, 1935), as presented to the Borough of Greenwich by him: see PAF1305.