Portrait of a man, turned slightly to right, looking to front and wearing armour and a neckcloth of patterned. Features strongly hatched in long strokes of brown and sanguine, with dark blue for the eyes and touches of white for the highlights, on a very pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash hatched with darker colour and heightened with gouache, over the carnation; armour in pale grey wash worked over with dark grey and black, and with white heightening; the studs in gold; cravat in pale brown wash modelled in white; background a brown wash, hatched with darker colour and lightened slightly with grey gouache to right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Seventeenth-century oval gold locket with convex back, the sides chanelled and flaring out to the bezel, which holds the slightly convex glass by its rounded edges; the hanger of D-section, grooved down the middle and bifurcating into flat wires which turn back on themselves into single loops before beginning diminishing spirals of five turns; engraved on the back with a symmetrical arrangement of acanthus and other leaf ornament, issuing from an engraved triangle at the base of the hanger; inscribed inside with paint: 13 -4, (1) and packed out with cut-up playing cards.