[Barefoot shrimping girl on the shore showing shrimps to a stout man. Smock race with spectators. Men digging and hauling vegetables in a field while young women carry baskets on their heads] [graphic].

"Three scenes, one above the other: top: on the shore, a shrimping girl, barefoot and very décolleté, with net and basket, showing shrimps on a plate to a stout man who examines them through an eyeglass, three other girls shrimping in the water at left, a Scottish officer and a young woman with a parasol walking off arm in arm to right, cliffs beyond; middle: a smock race, two women racing to right in the mid-distance, an excited crowd running behind them including a couple in a carriage, the men waving their hats, spectators standing and sitting on the grass in the foreground; below: digging in a field, at foreground right, two men digging for vegetables in the ground, another at left pushing a wheelbarrow with a basket full of vegetables, four shapely young women carrying other baskets on their heads, farm buildings beyond at right."--British Museum online catalogue