Printed in gray tones on cream-white paper, we look down onto an open sketchbook illustrated with a pattern of stylized, interlocking lizards in this horizontal lithograph. A closed, hardback book, triangular placard, ten-sided dodecahedron, and metal vessel create a circuit around the edge of the drawing. Near the bottom corner of the drawing, one of the tessellated lizards morphs into an actual lizard. Six more crawl in a line along the book, placard, dodecahedron, and a gleaming vessel before the seventh morphs from an actual lizard back into the drawing. The lizard perched on the dodecahedron blows smoke out of its nostrils. Part of the book’s title is legible, “NATUURLIJK…I DIERKUN…”, and writing under the drawing in the sketchbook reads “driehoeksy…IA3 type 1.” The metal vessel holds small boxes, perhaps matchbooks. A much smaller but thick book with tiny printing lies open near the top right corner of the composition. A succulent plant in a round pot and a tag or miniature book titled “JOB,” which also has an elastic along one long side, are in the bottom left corner. A corked, straight-sided flask and short rocks glass are in the bottom right. The artist signed the lower left corner of the plate with his initials in blocky letters, “MCE” beneath text reading, “III-’43.” Also inscribed in pencil under the lower left margin is the text, “1ste staat MCEscher.”