Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right and looking to front, and wearing a pearl earring in right ear; a landscape in right background. Features hatched and stippled in brown, with grey, blue and red modelling; hair similarly worked in pale brown, lined with gummy darker colour and with pale gouache lights; on a smooth, peach-coloured carnation ground; dress in very pale brown and grey washes with thick white, modelled and shadowed with darker colour; landscape and sky washed and stippled in greens, blues and yellow; background to the left a solid grey wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Seventeenth-century oval gold locket, the convex back enamelled all over in opaque pale blue, and the sides with an openwork border of enamelled acanthus sprays repeated twelve times (one section missing); the sides have a right -angled rebate to take an enamelled front cover (now missing) and turn into a bezel, which holds the shallowly convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of D-section, enamelled on the outside in pale blue; at the bottom, a small loop for suspending a pearl.