A left-profile ink portrait of a woman — the face in clean left profile, the nose slightly upturned, the lips softly described, the eye with a heavy and specifically rendered set of lashes projecting downward from the upper lid. The hair is swept back from the forehead and waves to the right in the manner of a mid-century set, the strands indicated with loose arcing marks that suggest the hair's volume without fixing each strand. Below the face the clothed bust is indicated with hatching marks at the collar and shoulder zone. The ink on the warm ochre paper reads with the rich warmth characteristic of the best works in this series.
The eyelash treatment here echoes Work 1443 [The Ink Profile, Eyelashed] from earlier in the portrait sequence — the individually rendered lashes as the drawing's signature detail, the face otherwise spare. But where 1443's eyelashes were rendered with extreme delicacy on cream paper, here the lashes are broader, drawn with the same bold ink used throughout the ochre-paper portrait series. The result is a different quality of the same observation: still specific, still attentive to the lash as a zone of physical individuality, but less precious and more assertive.
The clothed bust below the face — with the collar's hatching marks suggesting a garment's texture — connects this portrait to the social-portrait mode of the cap series and the shirt portrait of Work 1477. The woman is in her world, wearing her clothes; the portrait records not just the face but its social context. Among all the female profiles in the ink portrait series (1443, 1444, 1494, 1503, 1506, 1508), this one offers the fullest combination of facial specificity and social presence.