Portrait, half-length, turned to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a patterned lace neckcloth. Features in firm hatches of brown and sanguine with some grey shadow and white heightening, thickly blended over a pale carnation ground; hair in brown washes, hatched in darker colour and heightened with gouache; robe in opaque blue, hatched with dark grey and the lights in white; white collar; on a dark gummy brown background; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.