A frontal ink portrait of a young man in a white t-shirt — the face broad and slightly heavy, the ears prominent on either side, the eyes meeting the viewer with a direct, uncomplicated gaze. The t-shirt below the face fills the lower half of the composition with clean white paper, the neckline drawn as a single curved line, the garment's bulk giving the figure its physical substance.
This portrait immediately invites comparison with Work 125 — the oil portrait Man in White T-Shirt, which the handoff document identifies as the only oil portrait in the collection and a likely self-portrait. Where that painting rendered the t-shirt subject in full color with oil's depth, this ink drawing makes the same subject in pure line. The white t-shirt as a recurring motif across the collection's span is worth noting.
The face is drawn with the sketchbook's characteristic confidence: the brow and eye area more described than the lower face, the nose placed correctly, the lips drawn with brief marks that suggest a closed, neutral expression. The hair is short, a few parallel marks at the crown indicating texture. The ears, prominent and carefully drawn, have their characteristic structural description.
In the sequence of male portraits — the Bald Man, the self-portraits, the bearded faces — this young man in his white t-shirt has a different quality: less weight, less age, more openness. A face that hasn't yet settled into its permanent expression. Sidney observed this too, and drew it.