Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, facing front and wearing a pearl earring in her right ear. Features in fine hatches of brown and sanguine, with red in the lips, on a thick pale carnation ground; the hair washed and hatched in brown with gouache lights; costume in transparent blue wash with the lights in white; background washed and hatched in greys; on vellum put down on very heavily sized pasteboard.

Frame: Nineteenth-century oval silver-gilt locket, the back nearly flat and forming an arris above the narrow grooved side, which holds the convex glass in a bezel; the hanger of D-section with a deep central channel, flanked by two diminishing spirals of six turns which begin in a pair of reversed loops overhanging the back of the locket.