Portrait, head and shoulders, to front; the sitter is wearing a dress decorated with beads and has her hair about her shoulders. Features in brown and sanguine, hatched with long diagonal strokes with blue-grey and white, and heavily impasted, some touches of white and of gum in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched over in darker colour and with the lights in pale gouache, also over the carnation; dress in blue wash, modelled with darker colour and with the lights in white; chemise in a pale grey wash, modelled in white; pearls in white over grey; background a plain brown wash; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Seventeenth-century gold locket, the convex back set into straight sides with a Single narrow channel, flaring out to the bezel, which holds a convex flat-backed glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of D-section, channelled down the middle, and bifurcating into diminishing spirals of flat wire of three turns. Inscribed in black paint, inside the case: 5 - 3 -.