Cemetery scene with a group of labourers, holding pickaxes and spades, standing in the background and a boy sitting in the branches of a tree on the left. A man with mutton chops, dressed in top hat and coat, stands behind a coffin. The coffin is surrounded by four men, dressed in traditional Chinese garments and with long queues (long hair braided in a tail), and has Chinese writing on its lid. One of the men is kneeling in front of the coffin and in the process of opening it with the help of a hammer. Another one assists him, whilst a third is holding a parasol and a fourth sits leaning against the tree. Two dogs are standing on the right.