Verso: Patches of colored fabric and thread. Printed label: Vuë Perspective de la Cathedrale de St. Paul a Londre. / Prospect der Dom=Kirche St. Paul, zu London. / Med. Folo. No. 47. / Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sac: Caes: Majestatis. / Georg Balthsar Probst, excud. A.V.
Men work in an outdoor studio on a gigantic wheeled contraption supported by a wood and rope sling in the center of the courtyard. At the back are racks for various pipes, and other tools and materials lie scattered about.
Two lower fountains and a bigger one in the center showing Neptune riding over the sea stand in openings of the richly decorated railing. The royal french coat of arms and chiffres "L", respectively, top the openings. A fragment of a framing strip, at right.
A Mediterranean port. A ship at middle distance, behind it, at right a lighthouse. In foreground several figures, most of them around a fountain at left. The fountain is decorated with two reclining dog figures. Behind it a ruined wall with a standing Egyptian male figure. In background, mountains.
An old couple in half-length. Man in foreground, left, looking straight to right. He wears a nightcap, holds a s tick in his left hand, gesticulates with his right hand. Woman at right, turned slightly to right, head to left, and is looking at the man.