A large portrait in green ink — the most chromatic of the ink portraits, and together with 889 (green chalk on brown) one of only two works where Sidney chose green as the drawing medium for a portrait. The subject is a child wearing a flat cap, the face seen in three-quarter view with wide eyes looking upward and to the right with the characteristic directness of a child who knows they are being drawn but is not quite sure what to make of it.
The green ink gives the portrait a botanical, fresh quality that neither black nor blue ink achieves — the line has an energy that reads as alive rather than inscribed. The hat is the compositional dominant: a wide flat cap rendered with close parallel stripes and a bold outer contour. Below it, the curly hair at the temple and around the ear connects to Sidney's abiding interest in curls as spiral marks.
The face below the hat is described with Sidney's most confident ink vocabulary: wide eyes with expressive brows, the nose and lips in brief marks, the ear fully described with the characteristic Cothran attention. The collar and body below are described with loose marks suggesting informal clothing.
At lower right, a small sprig-like plant mark — a brief botanical note that appears beneath the figure. Whether intentional as part of the composition or an exploratory mark from another session, its presence connects the portrait to the botanical vocabulary that runs through so many other works.