This graphite sketchbook drawing by Maurice Prendergast captures a modest residential structure with its surrounding fenced garden in Rockport, rendered with the artist's characteristic attention to compositional balance and spatial relationships. The work demonstrates Prendergast's practice of sketching architectural and landscape subjects during his travels, which served as preliminary studies for his more finished paintings. The delicate graphite marks suggest the artist's analytical approach to capturing form and structure while maintaining the spontaneity inherent to working in a sketchbook format.