The Staffordshire potter Andrew Stevenson produced over twenty designs featuring American scenes, presumably for the American market. The view on this platter is based on an 1823 aquatint by John Hill after a watercolor by the Irish artist William Guy Wall. The foreground depicts Red Hook, Brooklyn. The windmill on the shore belonged to Anchor Gin located at the base of Joralemon Street. The distillery was owned by Hezekiah Pierrepont, grandson of James Pierpont, a founder of Yale University. Shortly before this scene was painted, Pierrepoint gave up the distillery business and began developing Brooklyn Heights.

Stevenson produced two versions of this view. The first, this example, is faithful to the original painting, although the landscape is slightly compacted to fit the shape of the platter. In the second version, the man standing in the foreground has a flatter hat, wears a knapsack, and rests his walking stick on his shoulder.