Portrait of a woman, half-length, almost right profile, looking to front and wearing a headdress. Features boldly hatched in brown and sanguine with touches of darker colour, black and grey gouache, and red for the lips; hair in pale brown wash, lined with darker colour and the lights in grey gouache; all on a very pale off-white carnation ground; background a solid dark grey wash, lightened slightly to the right; the costume unpainted; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table- book.