This pencil sketch from Maurice Prendergast's Italian Sketchbook captures a gondola with two gondoliers rendered in loose, gestural lines characteristic of the American Post-Impressionist's observational drawing style. The work documents Prendergast's travel studies in Italy, where he sketched scenes from daily life that would inform his later paintings. The economical pencil work conveys movement and spatial depth while maintaining the spontaneity typical of working sketches made directly from observation.