Portrait miniature of a boy, turned to left and looking to front. Features in brown and sanguine, diagonally hatched with grey-blue and heavily impasted with gouache, with black in the eyes and white heightening, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and modelled in darker colour, also over the carnation; collar in thin pale grey wash worked over in white; costume in dark brown washes with pale purple modelling; background in dense dark brown wash; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Apparently altered from a seventeenth -century oval gold locket, the convex back fitted to a bezel formed from the flanges of a torus central moulding on the sides of the locket; the front bezel holds the flat glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of D-section with a central channel, bifurcating into diminishing spirals of flat wire of four turns.