A left-facing profile portrait in ink — the face rendered with the sketchbook series' characteristic confident single-line contour, the hair long and loosely wavy, falling past the shoulder. The profile itself is strongly featured: the brow low and slightly heavy, the nose prominent and well-described, the chin defined. An older woman, or a woman of substantial presence.
The ink line achieves something exceptional in the hair's treatment: long, sweeping strokes follow the hair from the crown downward, the waves described with just enough marks to establish movement without overworking the surface. The outer silhouette of the hair forms a large rounded mass to the left of the face, the hair's volume given as much compositional weight as the face itself.
The eye in profile is drawn with a small careful mark — the lid's arc and the pupil's circle, the brow above it a single emphatic stroke. The lips are closed, the expression neutral and absorbed, looking into a private distance. Below the face the neck and shoulder are indicated with a few brief lines before the composition dissolves.
Among the profile portraits in the ink sketchbook sequence — The Bob (1357), The Feathered Profile (1334) — this is the most broadly stated, the hair's loose waves and the strong features giving the face a quality of weight and duration that the lighter, more delicate profiles do not have.