Portrait of a girl, half-length, facing front. Features softly hatched and stippled in brown and sanguine, with much shadowing in blue, with red for the lips, black in the eyes and white highlights; on a warm creamy carnation; hair in pale brown wash, hatched over in darker colour with highlighted curls in grey; dress in pale blue wash, modelled in darker colour with gummy black, especially for the jewel on which the lights are in white; chemise in pale brown wash, modelled in grey and white; the background in solid dark grey wash, hatched with grey gouache to right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: An oval frame, turned ebony of bolection moulding with additional grooves at the outer and inner edges; the inner ring possibly made separately; the convex glass set in a rebate; a plain brass ring for the hanger, with traces of original gilding, held by a pin driven through the wood at the top. The fruitwood backboard incised with various concentric ovals of different axes; inscribed on an old label attached to the paper covering of the backboard: Miss Dudley/North.