A right-profile ink portrait dominated by an extraordinary hat or bonnet — a large rounded form that occupies the entire right side of the composition from the paper's top edge to below the back of the head, its volume dwarfing the face below. The hat is described with bold arcing lines: the outer edge of the rounded crown, the brim or lower edge, the interior of the form with brief marks indicating shadow. Below and to the left of the hat's mass, the face in right profile: a strongly characterized nose, the lips parted, the chin. At the throat a necklace is indicated with a brief mark. The ink is applied with the full bold confidence of the best small-format portraits.
The hat's volume relative to the face is the most extreme hat-to-face ratio in any portrait in the collection — not the flat caps of the flat-cap series (which sat low on the head), not the geometric caps of Works 1544–1547, but a true bonnet or large rounded hat that takes up as much compositional space as the face. The hat becomes the portrait's primary visual event, the face reading as the secondary element beneath the hat's dominance.
The strongly characterized profile face — the specific nose, the parted lips, the chin's particular form — gives this portrait a quality of person beneath the occasion. The hat signals a social event of some formality; the face beneath it is specific, unhurried, attending to its own moment. This pairing of monumental social accessory with individual human face recapitulates the hat series' recurring theme of the person within their public presentation.