Portrait of a man, turned to left, looking to front and wearing a neckcloth and a dark cloak. Features in long, free hatches of brown and sanguine, with touches of blue in the shadows and with some touches of white heightening, on a pale carnation ground; hair in pale brown washes, hatched with darker colour and the lights in gouache; collar in a pale grey wash heightened with white; costume in brown wash overlaid with black and the lights in grey; the sky in washes of blue, white and ochre; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame: Nineteenth-century gilt rim of V-section, the back closed by a toothed copper strip; the miniature set within an oval opening cut in a gilt inner frame, with finely cut lines around the oval and the spandrels filled with rough granular etching.