Portrait of a man, turned slightly to right, eyes to front and wearing a patterned lace neckcloth. Features boldly hatched in brown and sanguine, with blue-grey shadows and touches of white, black in the eyes and red in the lips, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, lined with darker colour, and with grey and pale brown gouache lights; cravat in pale brown wash, modelled in white, and the lights in white with touches of black; robe in brown wash, modelled in darker colour and red-brown; landscape and sky background in yellow, blue and grey-brown gouache; to the left a solid dark brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.