Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, to front, his hair long and wearing a cravat tied in a bow. Features firmly hatched in brown and sanguine, with touches of white in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; the hair in brown wash, lined and hatched with darker colour and with pale gouache for the lights; cravat in grey wash modelled in white; the robe in brown washes with the lights in gold; background to the left a brown wash, and to the right a sky and landscape in opaque washes; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Modern gilt-brass, flat front, formed by bending the flat strip sides over to make a rebate for the glass; the sides pierced by three pin-holes for securing the slightly convex backplate; the hanger of D-section, channelled down the middle and bifurcating into reverse turns before beginning diminishing spirals of three turns.