A group of figures are arranged dramatically outside a small cottage in a densely wooded landscape. To the right, a man in knee breeches and a frock coat sits on the ground with his legs outstretched, clasping his hands to his breast and looking away from the center of the composition. At left, a woman reaches toward him over the body of a dead or unconscious man. Two young boys echo her gesture and a small girl cowers and covers her face. The image is printed on blue-tinted paper that has been closely trimmed and applied to cream laid paper within a printed frame.