This graphite sketchbook drawing captures a coastal landscape with Maurice Prendergast's characteristic attention to atmospheric effects and spatial recession. The work demonstrates the artist's practice of sketching directly from nature, with loose, gestural marks suggesting water, foliage, and distant landforms. As part of Prendergast's extensive sketchbook documentation of The Dells, this drawing served as a foundation for his later, more finished compositions in oil and watercolor.