A standing male figurine, with knees sightly bent and the left arm extended with his hand curled forward as if around an object. Over the left arm is a strap which crosses over to the right hip of the body and is held in the right hand. A bag appears to be visible slightly below and behind the right hip, attached to the strap. The statue is classical in style.

A sketch model of David, one of three Old Testament figures proposed by Alfred Stevens for the decoration of the dome in St Paul’s Cathedral, London (it was intended to go in one of the niches around the Whispering Gallery beneath the great dome). Between 1862 and 1865, Stevens was commissioned to produce designs for the proposed redecoration of St Paul’s, a project that did not, in the end, come to fruition.