Watercolour. The horse is shown side-on facing left, with its head turned away from the viewer. The boy is seen from behind in half-profile with a conical soft-cloth cap in bright red, a cloak in dark blue, and holding an unidentified brownish package(?) along with horse's reins. The rest of the picture is uncoloured. The annotation to the right of the milkboy reads: "brown earthen jars". The `earthen jars' are shown attached behind the boy's legs below the back hem of his cloak. In the distance to the right of the annotation two other mounted figures are sketched in profile from the side, riding to the left, one nearly obscuring the other.