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Features in long, sloping hatches of brown and sanguine, with shadowing in blue-grey and black, with touches of white in the eyes, on a yellowish carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and lined with darker colour and with the lights in opaque pale brown and grey; cravat in white over grey wash; robe in dark grey wash with black and white heightening; background to the left an opaque dark brown wash and to the right a sky in opaque blue, ochre and grey washes; a rudimentary landscape with a tree in off-white lower right; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. \n\n<u>Frame:</u> Seventeenth-century oval gold locket, the back convex and the sides with a broad channel flaring to the bezel, which holds the slightly convex bevelled glass; the hanger of D- section, deeply channelled in the centre, bifurcating into diminishing spirals of flat wire of three turns; engraved on the back below the hanger with scroll ornament. 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