This graphite sketchbook page captures Maurice Prendergast's characteristic interest in architectural subjects and leisure spaces, depicting the Granite Shore Hotel in Rockport with loose, gestural linework. The drawing demonstrates Prendergast's practice of rapid notation, recording the building's forms and spatial relationships in a abbreviated style typical of his working sketches. As a page from his sketchbook, it reveals the artist's process of visual documentation and his attention to the geometric structures that would inform his later, more elaborately composed paintings.