Outside the walls of a small riverside town, a procession of people, some with packaged goods, moves along the quay towards the boats in the right middle ground of the painting. Boats can be seen under sail in the distance. A favourite motif of Molenaer's scenes were near derelict, timber-boarded houses and outside such a house in the right foreground, a woman can be seen doing her washing. A man brings another basket of laundry from the house. A small boat is being pulled in to moor by a man in a green jacket. At centre left, four youths bathe naked at the edge of the river. Behind them is a boat carrying a group of more well-to-do passengers, including a man in a red cloak. In the foreground on the left some men unload goods from a moored boat.