Portrait, head and shoulders, looking to front, of a woman wearing a pearl necklace, earrings and a veil. Features in very delicate grey stipple and hatch with some sanguine in the nostrils, lips and eyes, the eyes in blue/black with white lights and touches of gum, on a pale carnation ground; hair in strokes and hatches of brown, grey and ochre over a pale wash; costume in pale grey wash with white lights and darker grey modelling strokes; the chain in black; touches of gold in the dress and in the jewellery; pearls in silver over white; diamond in silver lined with black; rubies and emeralds in coloured resin over silver; background a crimson curtain flooded wet-in-wet; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard (a playing card).

Frame: Nineteenth-century silver locket, gilded outside, the back convex, the sides of symmetrical section of two steps between a narrow torus moulding sloping into the bezel, which holds a shallow convex bevelled glass. The hanger is a small round circular loop of D-section.