A pencil portrait of a woman wearing glasses — the second spectacled portrait in the collection, the first being the blue-ink Man with Glasses (885). The glasses here are drawn differently: where 885 rendered them as bold rectangular frames, these are described more delicately — the frame contour visible at the temples, the lenses barely distinguishable from the face below, the overall effect of someone seen through their glasses rather than behind them.
The hair is the most described element: a large upswept mass gathered at the crown, with bangs falling straight across the forehead. The bangs are described with particular care — individual strands, the way they fall from the crown to the brow, their consistent horizontal direction. The upswept portion above is rendered more loosely.
The face below the bangs and behind the glasses looks downward — the gaze directed down and slightly to the left, the expression absorbed. The nose is carefully described, the lips suggested.
The collar at the neck is indicated in light marks. The shoulders and upper body below are barely present.
The downward gaze and the glasses together give this portrait a specific social context — a reader, a scholar, someone habitually engaged with a page rather than with the people around her.