| Description | Informal portrait of an elderly woman sitting slightly turned to her right and looking straight at the camera and holding a book in her lap. She is wearing a dark dress with a leaf pattern from the knees to the hem, long puff sleeves, stand collar, white shawl, brooch with chain and medal [also worn in MLP/9/3/9/1]and bonnet. she is seated in front of a walled formal herbaceous border which is in bloom. |