A sea port: palatial buildings on the left, ships on the right, and people on the shore in the centre. Engraving by J.Ph. Le Bas and Petit after Claude Lorraine.

Supposed (by Le Bas?) to show "the ancient port of Messina", possibly owing to Louis XIV's support for Messina's secession from Spain. Left foreground, a man seated on a chest plays a guitar to a woman, while two other string instruments are placed to one side; to right of them, a pedlar sells a clay pipe to another man. Centre, two men fighting, watched by two (Spanish?) men, one of whom draws his sword. Right, barrels being brought ashore in a rowing boat from a French ship in the harbour. A clock on the left gives the time as 7 o'clock, interpreted by the Louvre as sunset rather than dawn