The only confirmed two-person portrait in the ink drawing collection — and among the most compositionally ambitious of all the ink portraits. Two faces occupy the composition simultaneously: a woman at left-center, her face seen nearly frontally with both eyes looking outward, her bangs cut straight across the forehead; and a smaller face at right, seen in slight three-quarter view, the expression one of quiet observation.
Between and in front of the two faces, at the lower center of the composition, a hand — large, specific, the fingers spread or gesturing — is the most physically present element. This hand belongs to one of the figures or to a third person partially off-frame; its relationship to the two faces is not resolved. The hand is drawn with Sidney's characteristic finger-by-finger attention, each digit individually indicated, the thumb visible at the left, the knuckles broadly described.
The spatial relationship between the two figures is ambiguous: they are close together, possibly shoulder to shoulder, the larger face at left and the smaller at right suggesting either a foreground-background relationship or simply two people placed side by side. The composition does not describe space clearly — the two faces exist in the same compressed picture field without clear spatial recession.
The hand in the foreground is the composition's most unexpected element: a gesture or an action inserted into what would otherwise be a straightforward double portrait.