Designed brass frame, bonafide painting, coloured studio solo portrait, full-length shot image of a woman, mother of Visalakshi, wearing silk saree, tight necklace (atigai), bangles, ear studds with matal (chain shaped jewel used to hook in the hair from the ear ring studd), bulakku (worn on the columella, skin in the center of the nose separating either sides of the nostril), holding a book in her real right hand, placing her left hand on a chair, facing the camera. Plain background. M. Doss and Bros, Madras is printed on the mount.