A portrait drawing of Frances, Countess of Surrey (1517-1577), wife of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and daughter of John, 15th Earl of Oxford. A half-length portrait facing to the front. She wears a yellow headdress, pendant and girdle. 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 de Vere married Henry Howard in 1532, and it is possible that these this drawing along with a companion piece of her husband (RCIN 912215) were made at that time, in preparation for painted portraits. This drawing includes notes in Holbein's hand to record the colours and materials worn by the Countess.