A large pencil figure drawing focused on the back of the head, the nape, and the upper back — a close-up study of the zone where hair meets body. The drawing is cropped to show only this transitional area: the hair falling on both sides of the head to the shoulders, the nape beneath, the upper back descending below.
The hair is the composition's most elaborated zone: long, falling in smooth parallel strokes on the right side, with shorter curling marks at the base of the neck where the hair meets the nape. The nape itself — that intimate zone at the back of the neck — is drawn with the specific attention Sidney brought to the body's most observed details: the slight shadow at the hairline, the transition from hair to skin.
This is a study in the beauty of a very specific and very ordinary zone of the body. The nape of the neck, seen this closely, has a sculptural quality: the curve between the skull and the spine, the softness where the hair ends. Sidney saw this and stayed with it.
The upper back below the nape is described in the most minimal marks — barely more than the outer contour establishing the shoulder's descent on each side.