Portrait, head and shoulders, to front and wearing a ruff. Features in long, soft hatches of pale brown shaded with grey and darker brown; dark brown and black in the eyes and facial hair; red for the lips and a white highlight in the right eye; painted directly over the vellum without a carnation ground; ruff in thick white wash, shaded and modelled in grey, with some impasted white heightening; coat in gummy black wash with some grey for the details; background in solid blue wash, shaded in dark grey-black hatches left and right; on vellum put down on pasteboard (a playing card, parts of three clubs).

Frame: Nineteenth-century circular silver-gilt locket, with convex back and the sides deeply grooved, curving in a broad rolled edge to the bezel, which holds a convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of D-section, with a central channel, of tear-drop form, dividing into diminishing spirals of three turns. Packed out with part of a nineteenth-century goldsmith's trade card (no name).