Portrait of a man, to front and wearing a neckcloth and long wig. Features drawn with long strokes of sanguine, shaded with a little blue and grey-brown, and blended with a pale carnation ground; hair washed and hatched in pale yellowish-brown with grey and white heightening; collar in grey heightened with white, the tie in pale ultramarine shaded with darker colour; costume washed and hatched in mixed transparent and opaque grey and black; the shirt in white washes; the background in black wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: A recently made double-sided silver locket, with shallowly convex glass set in strip sides which curve to the bezels; the hanger of the rectangular section grooved down the middle and flanked by tapering spirals in flat wire of six turns.