A drawing of a fisherman wearing a smock and fur hat, lowering his net through a hole in the ice. A similarly attired man with a pole stands watching him on the left. Behind are two similar figures, one of whom sits on a rowing boat. In the background is a dike and two figures, with the town of Kampen visible in the distance.

Another similar drawing by Avercamp of a fisherman was at Sotheby's NY, 27 Jan 2021, lot 97.

906465-906513 amount to nearly one third of Avercamp's known drawings, and are the largest holding in one collection. They cover all categories of his drawings- studies of single figures, and groups, genre scenes and landscapes- and illustrate his considerable variety in finish and technique. In general the artist did not make preparatory drawings. They seem to have been made for their own sake, and some of the more finished coloured sheets were probably sold. The remainder served as a vocabulary of human behaviour as for the most part seen in the provincial town of Kampen.