Minton & Boyle create a complex border of modulated brown tones featuring beading, scrollwork, flowers, and vines to set off a central view of exotic Dacca. In the scene, a traveler pauses outside the walls of an imposing estate overlooking the water.

The slight exoticism of Minton & Boyle's "Dacca" would be attributable to the artist's imagination. It was known at the time to have been located on the River Ganges and to have been a large manufacturing center for rare and fine muslins and silks.