A striking CDV figure study titled "The Talking Hand" by A. Walker, with the reverse bearing the imprint of Wm. Barraclough, Photographist, Otley, presents a standing male figure in three-quarter length beside a small pedestal table, his right arm extended with his hand forming the head and face of a ventriloquist figure on the tabletop. The man stands in pure profile facing right, wearing a dark frock coat and trousers, his left arm at his side, the composition spare and deliberately staged against a plain light backdrop with a patterned floor visible.

The title The Talking Hand, printed on the front mount, indicates this is a commercial novelty of the performer and his props captured in a performance tableau.

The reverse bears the Wm. Barraclough, Photographist, Otley imprint with the notation Negatives Kept and dealer code 4/5/13 / LOGIHZ / Eb.