Winter landscape in Essex; foreground, a man with three horses in a field with two chickens; middleground, a hedgerow with ash trees, a pollarded willow? tree, fence posts and an open thatched barn with a cart; background, thatched farm buildings and a distant flat horizon. Sky is lightly worked. Etched in fine detail with retroussage on the ash trees. Detail in the extreme left and right margins is left in outline