Pen and ink, approx. 3.7 × 5.5 cm (image only).
The editors of the
Library Edition
describe the image as “a sketch of two old fishermen on the shore, of whom one is looking over the sea through a telescope”
(
Ruskin, Works, 2:341 n. 3).
The fisherman aims his telescope at a distant ship; the second fisherman, holding his nets, gazes at the first fisherman.