A large horizontal pencil figure drawing of quiet formal elegance — a figure seated with one leg extended, the body turned so the arm reaches forward toward the extended foot. The hand at the center of the composition — reaching toward the foot — is the most specifically described element: individual fingers, the wrist, the palm, the entire hand drawn with the sustained attention Sidney reserved for hands that are doing something.
The bun at the upper right is drawn with the characteristic coil marks — a compact, well-defined bun at the crown, the concentric circles briefly but clearly indicated. This is another instance of the spiral vocabulary in observed hair.
The body from shoulder to hip is described with clean pencil contour, the back's curve following the forward reach. The extended leg descends from the hip to the lower left, the foot at the lower left edge described with individual toe marks.
The composition creates a long diagonal from the bun at the upper right to the foot at the lower left, the reaching hand at the center connecting the two. The body describes a graceful arc along this diagonal.