A large pencil portrait-figure drawing of unusual completeness — a figure seen in profile from the right, the face carefully described, the hair gathered in a high top-knot, and at the lower composition a hand specifically drawn. The top-knot hair arrangement at the crown — loose loops gathered upward — is the most casually elegant hairstyle in the figure drawings, the hair pinned up rather than coiled.
The profile face is described with the most sustained tonal attention in any pencil figure drawing: the brow shadow, the eye socket, the cheek's slight modeling — the face has real three-dimensionality. The ear at the left — full Cothran attention — is the most specifically described element after the face itself.
The ear in profile is this portrait's technical achievement: the outer helix, the antihelix, the earlobe — all the structures of the ear correctly placed in the profile view. This ear is as attentively observed as any ear in the portrait collection.
At the lower composition, the hand — resting on a surface or in the lap — is described with individual finger marks. The nails are indicated on several fingers. This is a hand given sustained specific attention, connecting the portrait to the figure drawing tradition of the hand as character.