Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, a single stem of a flowering plant resembling a honeysuckle with pink blooms is painted against a plain paper ground. Two butterflies of the same type fly above it with reddish wings with marginal spots. The painting is achieved with washes and loose brush strokes hatched in darker tones for the detailing. The painting has an inner border of strips of an orangey-buff colour which have been cut back round the petals of the flower on the right hand side and the upper butterfly. There is a gold line with black rulings at its outer edge which are set on the ivory-coloured page. This has faded strips of paper of a similar colour to the inner border with a double line of black ruled lines on their inner edge. A beige strip of woven textile acts as a gutter for the binding.