Painting depicting a young Black woman wearing a dark blue frock coat and white gloves, reminiscent of 18th century colonialist attire, and a tiara. She fixes the viewer a defiant gaze: head tipped back and hands grasping her lapels. The painting is mounted on a larger panel of embossed floral wallpaper. Sections of the wallpaper's pattern have been painted and extended to overlap the portrait. The whole artwork is mounted in a thin gilt-effect frame.