Picture of black-work embroidered linen in silk and couched cord. With a bobbin lace border. With a design of a mourning shepherd in an oval medallion in the centre surrounded by emblems and mottoes in Latin, Italian and English. The outer border also has inscriptions which are linked by symbols.
The shepherd is portrayed in a melancholy attitude in a landscape flanked on both sides by a tree bearing a mixed selection of fruits. He has a small dog attached to a lead, and in his right hand is a shepherds crook which bears a purse. With his left hand he points to an open book on the ground at the foot of one of the trees, and in the lower branch there is a set of bagpipes. At his feet are flowers, a snail, several rabbits, ewes, two books, and two other objects.