Farther back are brick walls, the remains of a sluice, which are connected by planks.

A man with a dog crosses to the left bank which is thickly planted with trees.

In the middle distance is a man in a flat-bottomed boat on the sunlit water.

In the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, London, 1892 catalogue, No.

"[1] This painting was documented in earlier estate sale catalogs of Pieter Locquet and Jan Gildemeester and Hofstede de Groot therefore listed it also as #16, though at the time he didn't know it was the same painting as his #174.