Heo Ryeon (1809-1892), a painter of the late Joseon Period, became so engrossed in the Southern School of literati painting that he even changed his name to Heo Yu after Wang Wei (or Wang Yu by Korean reading Chinese characters) of Tang China, a forefather of the said school. In the left-hand margin of the painting, Heo Ryeon wrote a poem in a style of handwriting influenced by Kim Jeong-hui, a famous calligrapher of the Joseon Dynasty. The painting of oddly-shaped stone on the right made only in Indian ink portrays the rough texture of the objects.