A woman in simple clothes, sitting outside a cottage, left foot raised on the front step, spooling thread, looking to the left at a young boy who passes holding a shallow platter, accompanied by three piglets, landscape with a church spire in the background.

inscribed on a label on the reverse " By Wm Huggins Date 1856" and further inscribed on another label "  Exchange Art Gallery  Oil Painting The Brown C../ William Hu…"

The sitter wears The Wurttemberg Order of The Crown and the  Order for the Grand Officer of the Légion d’Honneur