Portrait of a woman, half-length, to front and wearing a headdress; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features in soft brown hatches blended with blue and white, with black in the eyes and red in the lips, on a pale off-white carnation ground; hair washed in pale brown gouache over pale brown; head-dress in white and greenish brown; dress in a solid blue wash, with darker colour and white for the lights; mantle in grey gouache, lined in red and with the lights in pale pink hatches; lace at the breast in impasted white over grey; background in brown wash, darker to the left, pale to the right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.