A maritime scene showing two strips of land jutting out into a river basin, at right angles to one-another, with one extending from the left edge of the composition and the second from the right lower corner. Across the horizon is a line of low land, which descends slightly to the right where a cottage stands beside a mill. In the foreground, a group of boats are moored to the right bank of land, three of them with sails set; a steam boat crowded with figures either positions itself to move alongside the boats or casts off from a wherry (a kind of barge). Behind the left bank of land, the square sail of another wherry can be seen. Gilt, moulded plaster, eighteenth-century frame.