A frontal ink portrait in the small format — a face framed by a voluminous curly hair mass, the most exuberantly organic of the ink portrait crowns. The hair rises above the forehead in a flowing organic form — no structured pompadour geometry, no architectural roll, just the natural volume of curly hair described with a single sweeping outer contour and a few interior arcs indicating the mass's layering. Below the hairline a brow-level horizontal mark divides the hair territory from the face territory, and below it the face is drawn with the circular iris eyes, the nose, the slightly parted lips. The face has an openness and directness matched by the hair's natural generosity.
The outer contour of the hair is the most organic of any hair description in the ink portrait series: the cloud-like rounded forms at the crown, the falling sections at the sides with their loose loops, all drawn as one flowing line rather than as structured architecture. This naturalness — the hair simply as hair, unconstrained by styling — contrasts with the pompadours, rolls, and caps of the earlier portraits and gives this face a different quality of person: someone whose hair is its natural self.
What appears to be a brief initials mark or artist stamp at the lower right of the portrait — small crossed or angular marks — may be Sidney's monogram or a casual mark made after completing the drawing. If it is a signature mark, it would be the only signed small-format ink portrait in the batch. The detail warrants closer examination when the physical work is available.