A portrait drawing of Frances, Countess of Surrey (1517-1577) on pink prepared paper. She is shown half-length facing to the front. She wears an English hood with one lappet raised, and she has a yellow girdle around her waist. The drawing is almost entirely in black and coloured chalks with white heightening her eyes and tiny strokes of black ink to indicate her eyelashes.

The drawing is inscribed with colour and textile notes in Holbein's hand: on her dress he has written rosa felbet (pink velvet), felbet (velvet), schwarz (black) and perhaps also rot (red). An eighteenth-century inscription (a copy of a mid-sixteenth-century original) at top left identifies the sitter as 'The Lady Surry'.

Her dress has been inscribed by the artist: rosa felbet (pink velvet), flebet (velvet), schwarz (black) and (?) rot (red). Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: The Lady Surry.

Frances, Countess of Surrey was the wife of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford. This portraitwas probably intended as a pair with one of her husband (RCIN 912215).