The person portrayed is seated in an armchair, in her left hand she holds an open book. She wears a pin on her chest and a hood on her head. Behind her is a painting of a cemetery, presumably the cemetery near the Bergkerk in Zwolle. Below the painting are two family coats of arms, including that of the Van Pallandt family, and a coronet of graves. Portrait of an unknown old woman, print maker: Wilhelmus Cornelis Chimaer van Oudendorp, Netherlands, 1832 - 1873, paper, h 545 mm × w 426 mm