Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left, looking to front, wearing a long wig and neckcloth tied in a bow. Features in short hatches of very gummy dark brown and sanguine, with touches of black and white heightening in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash with gummy dark brown hatching and some lights in pale gouache, also over the carnation; cravat in pale grey wash, modelled in pale grey and black and with the lights in white; costume in brown washes, modelled in very gummy dark brown; background in brown wash hatched with darker colour, darkening to the right of the head; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Nineteenth-century silver-gilt locket, convex back and with sides with multiple step moulding sloping into a push-fit rim with a bezel, which holds the flat glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of square section, channelled down the middle.