A close-up pencil drawing of a head bent forward — the composition focused on the crown of the head and the upper back, the bun described with multiple parallel marks building a striped, vertically layered form. This bun is described differently from the coiled spiral buns: the stripes are vertical, suggesting a bun wound in vertical layers rather than coiled concentrically. It is the most formally specific bun description in the collection after the spiral bun (1154).
The drawing reveals itself as a study of the bun and the upper back zone — a limited window of the figure, closely observed. Below the bun, the nape of the neck and the beginning of the shoulders are visible; above it, nothing.
The parallel marks that describe the bun are the most sustained and most patient marks in any close-up figure study — the texture of the wound hair built mark by mark, each layer of hair described in its direction and density.
This drawing, in a group of sessions that have repeatedly returned to the bun and the crown, is the most analytically attentive study of the specific structure of a bun that Sidney made.