Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left and looking to front. Features in softly blended stipples of brown and sanguine with some dark grey and white highlights in the eyes, red for the lips, on a pale yellowish carnation ground; hair in short dark brown hatches over a pale brown wash, stippled at the hair-line; ruff in impasted white over pale brown, shaded with grey; ear-ring in metallic gold and silver; lace at the breast in very fine lines of white over the carnation ground; dress in black wash, modelled with greys, the jewelled decoration in brown and gold with embossed silver for the pearls; a gold marginal strip; background in red lake wash floated wet-in-wet; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Seventeenth-century oval gold locket, convex back, enamelled in translucent green champlevé enamel over punched gold; opaque white enamel flowers partly in relief, growing from gold stalks in an asymmetrical scrolling cosse de pois style; the sides enamelled in opaque black champlevé cosse de pois ornament in translucent green and opaque white on gold stalks; the hanger, a solid gold loop set transversely and enamelled on each side of a thread of gold in opaque black, flanked by two loops enamelled in opaque white surmounted by two smaller loops enamelled in opaque pale blue (mostly missing); on the reverse of the hanger a quatrefoil in translucent dark blue enamel, set centrally on the front loop with a table-cut diamond. The original lid of the locket is missing, its hinge filed off, and a modern push-fit glass provided.