A watercolour and bodycolour drawing of a fully-rigged Venetian boat on calm water with other vessels and a harbour with a lighthouse in the background. Signed "Oswald W. Brierly / RWS".

Brierly worked for three members of the Royal family through his long career as a marine painter, and after his death his daughter recorded that the interest Queen Victoria had always taken in his work had been ‘one of the happiest memories that remained with him and cheered him to the very last’. This finished watercolour was presumably worked up from a sketch perhaps made during Brierly's trip to Trieste in 1868; he also visited Venice in 1874 and 1882.