Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing and looking to front, and wearing a long wig and neckcloth of patterned lace. Features stippled in charcoal grey and sanguine, with touches of yellow and blue, and with some white heightening in and around the eyes, eyebrows and nose, on a pale carnation ground; hair washed in pale brown and stippled with dark grey and dark ochre, with some gouache lights, over the carnation; cravat in white and grey over an off-white wash; vest in plain black, robe in blue shadowed with black and pale blue; background a plain opaque dark brown; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Nineteenth-century rectangular gold locket with slightly convex back, push-fitting into a front which is enamelled in dark blue and which holds the shallowly convex glass in a bezel; within the outer frame there is a gold mount, ornamented with acanthus, with an oval opening for the miniature; the spandrels and borders worked in low relief with four joined motifs of foliar ornament on a hammered ground.