In ink and in pencil. Two of the caricatures are accompanied by verses with the titles, "W---m G---g's life indoors and out" and are signed "G.R.G", [Lindow Grove, Alderley Edge, Cheshire?]. Gissing's two brothers, William and Algernon, are the subjects of two of the caricatures; Gissing is himself the subject of the third. The sketch is a copy from Doré's Don Quixote.