Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left and looking to right; the sitter is wearing a gown and a cap; his hair is long. Features in a very fine pattern of hatching strokes in brown and sanguine, heavily reinforced with gouache, over a thin yellowish carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash with the lights in gouache; the collar and robe in opaque washes, hatched and shaded in darker colour and with the lights in gouache; background in dark grey wash; on vellum put down on pasteboard.

Frame: Adapted from a seventeenth-century gold locket to resemble a sixteenth-century jewel, the back of polished brown moss agate resembling a rocky landscape, set in straight sides deeply channeled and turning over into a deep bezel, which holds the flat glass by its bevelled edges; the hanger of reversed D-section, bifurcating at the base into two symmetrical supports which are soldered to the top of the locket; suspension lugs are crudely soldered to the sides and base of the locket (one missing, the rest damaged and all the pendants missing); within, across the top of the miniature, a 'label' in white enamel with gold thistle heads at each end, lettered in gold: Sr. Ed. DENNY BANNERET 1524