Portrait, head and shoulders, to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls. Features in free, wiry hatches of brown and sanguine, with some blue-grey and pale gouache heightening, on a pale creamy carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, hatched in darker colour with some touches of gouache; dress a blue wash, modelled in darker colour and heightened with white; the necklace in grey with white highlights; the background a plain brown wash formerly enclosed in a gold margin; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century silver-gilt oval locket, the convex back and rounded sides curving round to the bezel, then turned over the convex glass; the hanger of elongated tear-drop form of D-section, made from two wires soldered together and bifurcating into tapering spirals of five turns. Cf also Cat. Nos 65, 80 and 94, all re-framed by the Josephs.