Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, turned to front and looking to left. Features stippled in pale grey and sanguine with brown, yellow and blue, and with green-blue in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and stippled with darker colour and with some gouache lights, over the carnation; chemise in white and grey over an off-white wash; dress in transparent blue washes with some black shadow; background a brown wash, hatched and darkened to left, lightening to the right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century copper-gilt locket; the back convex, the sides with two channels separated by a bead rising to the bezel, which holds the nearly flat glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger, which is soldered awkwardly to the top of the locket, is a ring of D-section set on a short-waisted column and has a pointed knop on the top. When acquired, the miniature was said to be in 'a brass frame'.