A right-profile ink portrait — the most gestural in the batch, the hair described with looping, tangled, overlapping marks that give the crown a wild, animated quality. The hair rises and falls in arcs, the individual marks crossing and recrossing to build the mass's volume without settling into any orderly structure. Below the hair the face is in right profile: the forehead descending to the nose, the lips below, the chin and neck. At the throat, a bow tie is visible — the rectangular shape with its symmetrical wings indicating a formal accessory that places the subject in a social context of occasion or dress.
The bow tie is the small format's most socially specific accessory detail, connecting this portrait to the broader collection's interest in clothing as social identifier. A bow tie signals formality, occasion, even performance — it is worn to events, not to work. Its appearance in this quick gestural portrait suggests a subject observed in a social setting, the drawing made while the person attended to other matters.
The contrast between the hair's expressive wildness above and the bow tie's formal precision below is the drawing's primary formal tension. The hair says improvisation; the bow tie says structure. Between these two registers sits the profile face, briefly described with the nose's specific form and the lips in their characteristic placement. The portrait captures a person between their own energy and the social form they have assumed for the occasion.