Discovery of Brazil

Composition in black and white. Predominance of straight lines and some shaded. It depicts that takes place on the deck of a ship. In the foreground, on the left, man climbing a rope in the center back another man, also climbing on a rope; beside her, crouching man holding a sort of box. In the background and bottom various groups of people. Several strings cut the composition diagonally above the top of the composition, seeing if two men climbing rope ladders.