This unusual view depicts the area where the Suzhou Creek joins the Huangpu River. The two-storey building on the right across the river is the English Consulate, built in 1849 in an area of over one hundred acres. Next to it is the Shanghai Custom House with the premises of Jardine Matheson and Co. to it's left. The next large building is the three-storeyed premises of Augustine Heard and Co. which also served as the Russian Consulate. To the left along the shore of the Bund are more buildings belonging to foreign companies. The scarlet walls of the Chinese Custom House can be be seen in the distance. At the centre of the picture is the tower of Trinity Church which was built a few hundred yards inland

A slightly larger version of this picture was exhibited in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Gateways to China, 1987, no. 41