We look across the corner of a wooden table piled with books, playing cards, a pipe, matches, and a covered vessel out into an alley between two tall buildings in this square woodcut print. The scene is printed with black ink on cream-white paper. The corner of the table juts toward us, and we realize that the surface of the table seamlessly becomes the floor of the alleyway beyond. Closest to us, on the table, a pipe and two matches rest in a shallow bowl. A five of spades is face up on the pile of cards to our left, and the pipe, bowl, and cards are reflected in a vessel behind them. The vessel has ribbing or ridges around the sides and along the conical cover, radiating out from a ball-shaped handle. A box of matches sits next to the bowl, to our right. Four books are stacked in a pile to our right, against three taller standing books. Six more books, standing with their spine facing inward, are to our left. The farthest books on both sides rest against the side of the buildings that line the alley, as if the buildings were bookends. The buildings each have three or four stories lined with rectangular windows, some with shutters. There are a few retracted awnings, and lines of white laundry are strung between the buildings in the distance. The roofline of the building to our left nearly reaches the top edge of the paper, and the roof of the building to our right is cut off by that edge. People, tables, and goods, tiny in scale, line the shop openings along the bottom floors of the buildings. The numbers “3-‘37” appear in white against black in the lower left corner of the printed image, and the blocky letters “MCE” appear to the lower right. Pencil inscriptions in the margin beneath each corner of the printed image cannot be made out.