This pencil sketch from Maurice Prendergast's Italian Sketchbook demonstrates the artist's compositional interest in geometric abstraction through overlapping squares and rectangles. Created during or after his travels in Italy, the work reflects Prendergast's modernist approach to structuring picture space through interrelated geometric forms rather than representational subject matter. The drawing exemplifies the experimental drawings he produced in his sketchbooks, which served as laboratories for developing increasingly abstract formal relationships.