A large ink portrait with the most specifically described garment in the ink portrait series — a woman wearing a horizontally striped blouse or top, the stripes described with multiple parallel horizontal marks across the chest and shoulders. This is the third striped garment in the portrait collection, after the charcoal portrait (929) and the earlier ink portraits, and the most thoroughly described: each stripe individually rendered, the weight and texture of the fabric suggested through the mark variation.
The face above the striped garment is drawn with characteristic economy: the hair in a large smooth mass, the face seen in three-quarter view with the gaze directed slightly outward. The eyes are described with the brow and lash marks of Sidney's most practiced ink portrait vocabulary; the nose and lips follow in brief confident marks.
The neck below the face transitions to the striped garment with a collar mark. The arms on either side are broadly described — the left arm visible with sleeve stripes continuing down it, the right arm more briefly indicated.
The striped blouse gives this portrait its social and temporal specificity: a woman in a casual, fashionable garment, drawn in a public or social setting, the stripes recording a detail of her appearance that she herself chose and that Sidney preserved.