diff --git a/docs/reference/Image.rst b/docs/reference/Image.rst
index 1df9f10fd..c8bee1fb5 100644
--- a/docs/reference/Image.rst
+++ b/docs/reference/Image.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ functions, including functions to load images from files, and to create new
 images.
 
 To assist with type hints, ``ImageType`` has been added a simpler way to refer
-to the class within the module. ::
+to the class within the module. In the following example, the two type
+annotations are equivalent::
 
     from PIL import Image, ImageType
     im1: Image.Image = Image.new("RGB", (1, 1))