A view of two cutters chasing to the right as groups of men watch from a rocky bank on the right foreground. Two other men on the bank carry fish in baskets. Both cutters have gun ports on their broadside. The scene is in an oval within a rectangular border. The corners of the rectangle are filled in with a small grid pattern. This print is from a series of paintings after Kitchingman of a cutter from its construction until its wreck in a storm, which were then in the collection of Mr. Newton (Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol). The descriptive line, "From an Original Picture in the Possession of Mr. Newton," present in the same prints of the same series is missing. The collector, Arthur H. Clark, used this print from his collection to illustrate his book 'The History of Yachting, 1600-1815' (New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), 172. Clark describes the scene as an English revenue cutter chasing a smuggler.
