Portrait of a man, half-length, turned to left, looking to front and wearing a neckcloth and long wig; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features freely hatched in brown and sanguine, with grey-blue shadowing, black for the eyes and touches of white, on a pale carnation ground; hair in washes of grey gouache and brown heightened with ochre; cravat in white shaded with grey and brown; robe in brown wash, modelled with darker colour and with the lights in ochre; background a solid dark brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.