Fish and birds are printed with opaque black on cream-white paper in this square woodcut. A bird, perhaps a duck, flies at the top center facing our right in profile. The wings and feathers on its body are carved in detail. The next row down has two birds, then three, four, and three again. In each row down, the details of the birds get more simplified until the lowest row with recognizable birds are black forms with white outlines. At the very bottom, a fish swims facing right in profile. Above it is a row of two fish, then three, four, and three again. The details of the scale, fins, and face also become simplified as the rows move up, until the simplest form of the bird meets the simplest form of the fish in the same row. In the top half, the birds are shown as black against white, and in the bottom half the fish are white against black. The transition between water and sky also happens where the animals meet. The scene is framed at the edges by horizontal black lines. The artist signed his initials, “MCE,” with conjoined blocky letters and “6-‘38” under the lowest fish. He also signed the print in graphite under the lower left corner, “MCEscher” and inscribed the lower right with “eigen druk.”