Portrait of a woman, turned slightly to left, facing to front and looking to right; the sitter is wearing a pearl earring in her left ear. Features directly hatched and softly stippled in brown and sanguine, shaded with blue and heightened with white, with added gum in the shadows, on a pale carnation ground; hair washed and hatched in browns with gouache lights and added gum heightening; dress and landscape background washed and hatched in opaque colours, with very slight touches of gold in the landscape and at the visible ear-ring; plain opaque brown background to the right and a landscape and sky background, in opaque washes of green, grey, blue, yellow and white, to the left; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Nineteenth- or twentieth-century silver-gilt locket with convex back and rounded sides, the shallowly convex glass held in a bezel by its bevelled edge; the hanger of teardrop form made from wire of triangular section, bifurcating and turning back into reversed loops on each side of the hanger before going into diminishing spirals of seven turns. A label of the ]oseph Collection inscribed: <i>26/ Thomas Flatman/portrait of his Wife.</i>