A compositionally unusual drawing — two figure studies on a single large sheet, using two different media. In the upper portion, a torso and head silhouette in green pencil: barely described, the outline following the back and shoulder of a standing figure but leaving the interior entirely empty — just the shape, nothing more. In the lower portion, a smaller and more complete figure in blue pencil within a rectangular frame: a standing nude, fully described from head to foot, bent slightly forward, the head looking down.
The framed quality of the lower figure is compositionally deliberate — Sidney drew a rectangle first and the figure within it, creating a picture-within-a-picture. Within the frame, a second small form at the lower right: a dark crouched form, barely legible, that reads as either a figure or a large stone.
The two studies address different questions: the green upper figure asks about silhouette and edge, the blue lower figure asks about internal structure and volume. Together they are a self-directed lesson: the same subject approached through its outer boundary and through its inner description.
The green pencil is the only confirmed use of this medium in the figure drawings — all others are blue or red chalk. This unusual choice, whether deliberate or circumstantial, gives the upper silhouette a botanical quality — the figure as plant form, the outer edge as the only fact.