This was the first of Ginner’s paintings to be acquired by Tate. It was purchased by Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964) at the Goupil Gallery, London in 1922 and presented through the Contemporary Art Society two years later. The painting is a study in complex perspective, with few edges at right angles. It depicts the inner harbour, looking toward the sheds of a timber yard, of Porthleven, a fishing village on Mount’s Bay near the most southerly point of Cornwall, the Lizard where Ginner was painting in 1921/2. His sister, Ruby Ginner Dyer, lived at Boscastle on the north coast of Cornwall at the time.