This graphite drawing from Maurice Prendergast's sketchbook captures a leisurely coastal scene populated with figures enjoying the shoreline and surrounding landscape. The work demonstrates Prendergast's characteristic interest in capturing light, atmosphere, and the informal activities of people at leisure, rendered through loose, gestural graphite marks. The two-page composition showcases the artist's practice of using his sketchbooks as spaces for experimentation with figural groupings and spatial arrangements that would inform his later finished paintings.