"RF" FitzRoy [top right corner]

Drawing. The annotation in the top centre reads: "S.W. clear afternoon shown before sunset". The sky is blank; faint shading here and there suggests that the sun is shining from the right, ie the north-west. The horizon-line of flattish and sloping hills is annotated in the centre: "purplish but light". The midground is occupied by lower and flatter ground, with an indication of distant bushes on the surface especially to the centre right, above a vertical cliff face annotated in the left centre: "rock yellow clay or volute". The annotation to the left of this reads: "rather greener than the cliffs but great arcades of colours". In front of this backdrop, the river bends from the left foreground via the right midground and the centre midground back to its point of disappearance on the right, annotated in the centre: "very blue water". The annotation below and to the left of this reads: "not coloured in the bight". In the right centre of the midground, against the low rise of the far bank, are the three boats, the masted one leftmost and seen nearly head-on, the others seen side-on. The centre and right of the foreground consists of the rough ground of the nearside riverbank, in which occasional grasses or small bushes are growing; this area is annotated: "rich browns greys".