Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left and looking to right; the sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls and earrings. Features in brown and sanguine, hatched diagonally in blue-grey, with some white, and heavily impasted; black in the eyes (slightly gummed) with white lights; all on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched with darker colour and with gouache lights, also over the carnation; dress in blue wash, modelled with darker colour and with white lights; bodice in pale grey wash, modelled and with the lights in white; background a brown wash sparsely hatched with darker colour; on vellum put down on card.

Frame: A recent copy in copper-gilt, based on the original locket which is preserved in an altered state on Cat. No. 104; convex back, torus moulded sides; the hanger of D-section wire, channelled, and bifurcating into diminishing spirals off our turns.