An old woman with a rosary at her waist raises her arm towards a middle-aged man bowed over in a high-backed chair set by a table on which can be seen a set of writing things. Behind him rises a strange unidentified object and the setting is a tent, which the old woman is on the point of leaving. The subject could just possibly be Queen Margaret cursing the Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, in Shakespeare's Richard III, Act I, scene iii, but in the play other people are present and the setting is a room in the royal palace. A possible alternative is the appearance of Lady Anne in Richard II's tent on the eve of the battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III, Act V, Scene iii.

Stylistically this drawing is close to certain works of the 1760s and early 1770s such as Caius Marius and the Cimbrian Soldier (S. 1731), Two Men in Beds (S. 1733), and Perseus and the Graeae (S. 405 and 405a), cf. also S. 435, 438, 427, 418