An engraving of a view of the daily activity at the port of Amsterdam after a drawing from life ("vivrum delin") made by Dirk de Jong in 1780. In the center, the three-masted ship of the line, 'Holland,' passes through Amsterdam's harbor buoyed on a ship camel. The ship camel was an external flotation device that was fitted to the two sides of a ship's hull to increase buoyancy and allow the ship to float in a reduced draught to pass shallow waterways. It was invented by the Dutch in the 1960s to allow large ships to pass through the shallow waters of Pampus in the Zuiderzee.
The title and publication information of the print is in Dutch and French in the bottom margin and is divided by an insignia of the Dutch coat of arms.
