Portrait of a woman, turned to left and looking to front, wearing a pearl necklace and earrings. Features in brown and sanguine, shaded in nearly even hatching strokes, with grey blended in, over a thick, pale carnation ground; hair washed in pale brown, hatched and lined in darker colour and highlighted in pale gouache; costume in washes of white and pale grey gouache, and the pearls in grey with highlights in white; background in dark brown wash, hatched in pale gouache to the right; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard (cut from a playing card).

Frame: Seventeenth-century oval gold locket, glazed front and back, the nearly flat glass held in bezels formed from the straight flat sides; soldered to the top (and formerly to the bottom) a flat curved loop of gold strip intended for threading with a ribbon. The compartment at the back contains a lock of hair. Engraved on every flat surface: Virtus post funera vivit Contemno gloriam Mundi Religione, Fide, Pudicita, Patientia, Prudentia, Constantia, et candore insignis Susanna Domina Dormer; /Coniunx Dilectissima, et Desideratissima Iohannis Dormer militis, et Baronetti, Per mortis ianuam [cael]estem Paradisum migravit : 24: die Fb. 1672 /31