This painting reveals Jenner’s application of English picturesque precepts to the Queensland coastline. Within the tranquil setting, men work from a raft — providing the foreground ‘interest’ — with a group on the right bagging oysters. To the left of the painting there is an Indigenous family group and in the left middle ground several more figures can be seen. Apart from the Friström brothers (Oscar and Edward Friström), few colonial painters in Brisbane featured Indigenous Australians. The various human groups are typical of the picturesque ideal, evoking a sense of man at ease in his landscape. Currigee was part of the Moreton Bay Oyster Company formed in 1874 and disbanded in the 1950s. In the nineteenth century it had a high profile, exporting oysters throughout Australia.