A circle filled with a pattern of interlocking fish with their mouths touching is printed with muted red, green, blue, orange, and black for this woodcut on cream-white paper. The fish mouths create three-pointed stars, and the fins fit together to create a dense design. Each fish has teardrop-shaped eyes with black pupils on white. A white stripe runs the length of each fish so that where the fins of one trio meet the mouths of another, a white asterisk form is made. The fish become smaller and then infinitesimal around the border. The artist inscribed the sheet under the printed image with “MCEscher XII-’59” to the lower left and “eigen druk” to the lower right. Another graphite inscription in the lower left corner of the sheet reads, “‘Circle-limit III’, colour-woodcut.”