The image shows a sketch of two men. One man is standing with his hands in his pockets. He has an angular face, wears a top hat, a coat with tails, a waistcoat, and trousers. The other man is seated on a bench, partially facing the viewer. He has a rounded face with a beard and a mustache, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a jacket, trousers, and shoes. The background is minimalistic with faint outlines indicating landscape features like hills or fields and some sketchy foliage at the base. Handwritten identifiers are present around the image, likely names and a date.
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Mr. Way and Mr. Booth

James Wells Champney (American, 1843 - 1903)

1862

Medium
pen and black ink over graphite on paperboard
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
image (irregular): 15.56 × 15.24 cm (6 1/8 × 6 in.) ; sheet: 26.51 × 16.83 cm (10 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1959)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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