A female figure of fuller build seated on a low rectangular platform, both feet planted flat on the floor. The figure faces directly forward, the eyes engaged — not the neutral studio look but a gaze that has found the artist and stayed. This quality of mutual attention, the model actually looking back, is among the rarer things in the life drawing sequence.
The body is drawn with confident, somewhat heavier line — Sidney not idealizing the figure but rendering its actual weight and volume. The hatching in the torso and along the inner thigh builds genuine three-dimensionality, the shadow marks giving the seated body its mass rather than just its outline. The platform beneath provides clear geometric grounding, the figure utterly settled.
The hands are given their characteristic attention: one resting on the upper knee, the fingers individually indicated, the arm's curve from shoulder to hand complete and convincing. Both feet are drawn with toe specificity, the planted soles asserting the body's weight against the floor.
The combination of direct eye contact, physical groundedness, and confident non-idealizing line gives this drawing genuine presence. The fuller figure is rendered without self-consciousness — just what the artist saw, described as clearly as possible. Among the stronger seated studies in the 1300s group.