A tiny ink botanical study on the same 5.25 by 6.5 format as Work 1580 — clearly from the same session, the same pen, the same paper. A single plant stem rises from below the composition's center, bearing a fan of leaves or fronds at the top: multiple long narrow leaves or grass blades radiating from a central point, the outermost ones curving outward and down. Below the leafed top, two nodes on the stem each carry a single narrow leaf. The stem continues below the second node as two thin parallel lines that curve to the right and disappear at the lower right edge.
The plant study is the only pure botanical nature drawing in the collection — not a landscape (Work 1491) where plants appear as part of a larger scenic composition, but a single specimen studied in isolation. The ink line applied to the plant's structure shows the same observational attentiveness that Sidney brings to the human figure: the leaves' specific attachment points on the stem, the way the outermost leaves curve back, the parallel lines of the stem's lower extension. This is observational drawing of the non-human world with the same commitment as the figure drawings.
The twin pairing of this plant study with the candles-in-barrel still life (1580) on identical paper suggests they were drawn in the same outdoor setting, perhaps a garden, perhaps a yard where a barrel of candles stood near a plant or pot. The two tiny works together constitute a miniature plein-air session — Sidney with a pen and two small sheets of paper, observing whatever was immediately before him.