Miniature painting depicting Christ, standing at the left of the scene, raising his hand as Mary Magdalen leans forward to touch him. The scene is set in a landscape. In the left background is a view of the hill of Calvary and crucifixes; at centre are two figures; on the right is Christ's tomb, in which are two seated figures. Features of Christ in brown and sanguine finely hatched and blended; features of Mary more summarily hatched in brown with touches of grey in the eyes; both over a pale carnation ground; hair of Christ in pale brown wash, lined and hatched in darker colour; dress in grey-brown wash, modelled in darker colour and the lights in pale grey; cloak in pale orange wash, modelled in darker colour and some lights taken out; dress of Mary in strokes of crimson wash over the bare vellum; shirt in pale orange wash modelled in darker colour and shaded in grey; cloak in dark blue modelled with darker colour and the lights in pale blue-grey; background, figures in middle distance etc., washed and hatched summarily in transparent and opaque colours, some very gummy; a brown marginal strip; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Ebony over oak with the inner part of the moulding gilt; the latter regilded in 1920.