Wyllie sailed to Holland on several occasions. This rapidly made watercolour captures the spirit and scale of the Dutch countryside, illustrated by the narrow strip of land with windmills silhouetted between the brimming water and the vast dramatic sky. It may have been painted during Wyllie's third cruise on the Dutch waterways in 1888, after which the resulting watercolours were exhibited the same year at Robert Dunthorne's Rembrandt Gallery in an exhibition entitled 'Netherland Waterways'.