A left-facing profile portrait of a man in a jacket and tie — one of the most formally complete clothed portrait profiles in the sketchbook sequence. The face is drawn with clean, confident single-line marks: the forehead's straight line down to the brow, the slightly prominent nose, the lips closed and firm, the chin strong. The eye in profile is placed correctly with a single mark for the lid and brow.
The ear is drawn with the sequence's characteristic structural attention: helix, antihelix, tragus — the ear's architecture mapped correctly, every cartilage element in its proper relationship. The jacket below is given with real specificity: lapels, a collar, a tie visible in the open collar, and at the lower right a hand or fist just visible — the figure's body only barely present below the face.
The side-part hair is described with a few parallel marks and a clean hairline, the short back-and-sides of a mid-century male grooming style. The whole portrait reads as a specific person at a specific time — a man who dressed for something, drawn by Sidney who observed the detail of the tie and the jacket with the same care he gave the features.
In the tradition of formal male profiles — the Set Jaw (1317), the man with the necktie (1381) — this portrait brings those elements together most completely: the clean profile, the dressed clothing, the ear's specificity, the whole reading as a finished observation rather than a quick study.