Portrait, to right and looking to front, and wearing armour; a landscape in right background. Features hatched in sanguine and brown, with blue heavily stippled into the shadows, all on bare on grounded vellum; hair, collar, armour and landscape background all in heavily gummed transparent washes of appropriate colour, most of the lights coming from the vellum, but with some touches of white and other pale gouache touches for the higher lights; the Order in gouache; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Nineteenth-century silver-gilt locket, the convex back soldered to straight sides of flat wire (not securely joined at the base) tilted inward to hold the convex glass by its polished curved edge in a bezel; the hanger of D-section, channelled down the middle and dividing and turning back at the base of the loop into flat tapering spirals of three turns.