This pencil sketch from Maurice Prendergast's Italian Sketchbook captures a maritime scene with sailing vessels rendered in the artist's characteristically fluid, gestural line work. The drawing demonstrates Prendergast's ability to convey movement and atmospheric effect through economical pencil marks, suggesting the billowing sails and water with minimal but assured strokes. As a page from his Italian travel sketchbook, this work reflects the artist's practice of rapid notation during his journeys, preserving observations that would later inform his more finished paintings and color compositions.