The daughter of Lady Townshend is shown in relief facing to the left. She is dressed in a short-sleeved pink dress edged with lace with a green sash and a white cap with pink and green flowers. Her light brown hair is twisted in ringlets falling to her shoulders.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes.