A pair of ducks by a lotus pond

Two ducks stand together at the water's edge, a green-headed mallard with a chestnut breast and blue-and-white wing markings beside a plain brown female, both rendered with yellow-orange bills and legs. Behind them, pale grey lotus leaves and seed pods rise in soft, muted silhouette against a light grey ground, with rounded stones at lower right and pale reeds along the water's edge. Kobayashi Kiyochika, "A pair of ducks by a lotus pond," 1879, color woodblock print, oban.