Oval miniature on ivory in brown gutta-percha frame: bust-length portrait of a man in his thirties or forties with tousled wavy brown hair with white highlights, dark blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, prominent nose and arched, thick brown eyebrows; cleanly shaven; slightly pursed lips; wears black jacket with long lapels, white shirt with high collar and white cravat around neck and chest; sitter is in an upright posture with shoulders back; eyes directed at viewer; set in a hazy gray-brown background; set in rectangular frame with molded vertical ridges; ivory set in deep caretto under flat glass lens fixed in ormolu frame; small circular hook at top center.