A large ink portrait of an older man, seen nearly frontally with the head tilted slightly forward and the gaze directed downward — giving the impression of someone reading, working, or lost in thought. The face is the most fully tonal in the ink portrait group: the shadow under the brow and around the eyes built from multiple lighter marks that approach a wash-like quality.
The hair — what there is of it — is sparse at the crown and visible at the sides, drawn with brief marks indicating thin hair over the scalp. Below the hair, the brow is prominent: a single heavy horizontal mark establishing the brow ridge's weight above the eyes.
The collar and jacket below are described with the loose, gestural marks characteristic of this ink series. At the right sleeve, partial stripes on the arm — suggesting a striped garment — connect this to the other striped-garment portraits in the series.
The overall impression is of a man at work or at rest, unaware of being drawn or comfortable enough with being drawn to ignore it. The slight heaviness of the downward head, the absorbed gaze, the aged face — this is someone whose life is visible in the drawing of them.