Instead of focussing on the imposing Rhine Falls from the front view, in Dillis' work the natural spectacle of the raging spray in the right-hand middle ground becomes secondary. Dillis directs the viewer's gaze westwards into a little cove. He masterfully captures houses, vegetation and two anglers on the shore in front of the hut in the otherwise deserted depiction with a few free strokes of the pen. The gentle waves of the water are moulded and accentuated in bright blue. Dillis used the fluorescent hue, which could only be produced mechanically in 1805, several times in the watercolours of his early work.