A fountain is in the right foreground. Water pours from a lion, standing in the cave, into a basin. Two women are laundering; another is waiting for her turn. A fourth one approaches on a donkey. Classical ruins in the foreground and the right middle distance. Mountainour landscape.
Landscape sketch showing a view of base of the American Falls portion of Niagara Falls. At left, water cascades vertically until it hits the water's surface and violently sends up a plume of whipping mist. In the foreground at lower right, a group of rugged boulders are washed over by the falling water. Below them, in the very lower right corner, a fragment of a rainbow is visible.
Trees and bushes stand in the first plane. Down below are hoses and the water. The coast line is shown again in the right background. Verso: In opposite direction.
Horizontal rectangle. Vista toward a huge warehouse in the back center. A steamer lies at its moorings in the right middle plane. Signed in the lower right corner: St. Louis 1887 / HRB.
A pavilion at the corner of a garden wall and a cross are shown in the first plane. A coast line and a lighthouse are beyind the center. Two sailing boats are in the background. Signature Ches Ransonnette, below at left.
Horizontal rectangle. Sand is in the foreground bordered at the back by a row of boulders. Ships and possibly a lighthouse are shown at left in the middle plane. A shoreline and possibly an island are in the background.
Closed gateway in the wall of a park. A big chain fastened upon stone pillars obstructs the approach. Between it and the gate two gentlemen or soldiers and a beggar. Four other beggars are sitting or lying and standing in the foreground.
Horizontal rectangle. A three-master stands upon the land, fastened by cords and logs. It is shown from the stern. Caption, below at left: Mantoloking/June 28/84.