This pencil sketch from Maurice Prendergast's Italian Sketchbook captures a Venetian boat with the artist's characteristic attention to light and movement. The delicate graphite lines convey the essence of Venice's maritime character while demonstrating Prendergast's skill at capturing form and atmosphere through economical draftsmanship. As part of a larger sketchbook series, this work reflects the American Post-Impressionist painter's practice of gathering visual studies during his travels that would later inform his more finished compositions.