A left-profile ink portrait of a woman with the most elaborately styled hair in the entire portrait series — a pompadour or roll at the crown, the hair swept up and over in a concentric-arc structure that rises above the head and swoops forward, each layer of the roll described with its own ink arc. Below the pompadour the hair descends to the left at the back, the loose section indicated with brief strokes. At the left ear a dangling earring hangs — described with a small mark at the lobe and a pendant form below. At the throat, below the face and above the clothed shoulder, a necklace with a pendant is indicated: a dark mark at the hollow of the throat, the pendant's shape briefly suggested.
The ink is applied with particular attention to the hair's architecture — the pompadour's concentric arcs building the roll's form with the same structural care given to the hat geometries of the cap portraits. This is the most marks devoted to hair arrangement in any single ink portrait: where most hair descriptions in the series are three or four broad strokes, the pompadour here requires eight or ten arcs of varying curvature to construct the structure's full form. The face below is strong and direct in left profile: the nose prominently described, the lips set, the eye briefly indicated.
The jewelry — earring and necklace pendant — makes this the most fully accessorized portrait in the collection, the two pieces of jewelry together constituting a significant social portrait element. Where the circular earring of Work 1505 was a single personal note, here the combination of pendant earring and necklace pendant frames the face with ornament above, beside, and below. The pompadour above and the jewelry below create a portrait in which the human face is embedded in a context of personal style that speaks clearly of a specific era, a specific social world, a specific person's choices about how to present themselves.