Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slighlty to left and looking to front; wearing a high collar and a sash. Features in brown, stippled softly over a thin yellowish carnation ground, with black and dark brown for the eyes and deeper shadows; the hair in brown washes, hatched with darker colour and with gouache lights; costume and landscape background in opaque washes; the costume ornament in metallic gold and silver; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Nineteenth-century copper-gilt rim of rounded section, the glass held in a rebate and the back held by a toothed rim; the whole fitted into an oval fruitwood frame stained black, which has straight sides and a front with a deep scotia moulding separated from an outer channel by a raised thread.