This original watercolor on paper features traffic on the River Humber in the City of Hull. Hull or Kingston upon Hull, is a port city in East Yorkshire, England. The painting is highly detailed with ships crossing the river in the busy waters of the port. The main vessel is a steam sail ship of the Royal Navy. Two other Royal Naval vessels join this one in the river- a large ship of the line in the right background and a small sailing craft in the left foreground with several sailors aboard. In the lower right, a small rowboat carries five men bundled up for the windy weather on the water.

This is a great watercolor view of England’s historical naval port.