A large blue pencil figure drawing of the most extreme forward-bending pose in the collection — the figure bent so deeply at the waist that the torso is nearly inverted, the head and upper body hanging down between the legs, the hair falling forward as a mass. The composition reads almost like a back-view figure that has turned upside down: the lower legs and feet dominate the upper portion of the paper, the head and hair are at the very bottom.
This extreme inversion creates a figure that tests the viewer's spatial orientation: the head is at the bottom, the feet at the top, the body a continuous curve connecting them. Sidney drew this with the same observational commitment he brought to all poses — the foot at the upper right with the characteristic toe-by-toe attention, the spine's extreme curve described with confident marks.
The hair falling forward at the bottom of the composition is the most visually specific element: a large mass of curly hair hanging down from the inverted head, each curl individually present in the marks, the hair's gravity obvious in its downward direction.
The blue pencil on white paper gives the extreme pose a clinical clarity — this is an anatomical study of what the human body can do, rendered in the blue that Sidney reserved for his most observationally rigorous life work.