In a rocky landscape with dead tree trunks are two rag-clothed hermits. One is standing looking into a stream tumbling through rocks to the right; in the left middle distance a ramshackle hut is visible on a rise.

The work is one of four pictures by Cimaroli acquired by George III but the set is now incomplete; the fourth has long been missing from the Royal Collection. The three remaining works show a strong influence of Marco Ricci and, probably via him, there is some influence of Magnasco in this work.