The image is a sketch of a group of people. In the center, there is an adult male and female, with the man wearing a tall top hat and a buttoned-up coat, and the woman wearing a bonnet and an elegant dress, holding a child. Other adults and children around them are also dressed in formal attire. Some figures appear in jovial poses, with activities like standing or chatting. The background shows an impressionistic natural setting with trees and leaves.
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Papa, Carry Me—Take Me Up in Your Arms

William Glackens (American, 1870 - 1938)

c. 1904

Medium
graphite, brush and black ink, and charcoal on wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
image (irregular): 30.16 × 23.18 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/8 in.) ; sheet: 32.39 × 25.4 cm (12 3/4 × 10 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. William J. Glackens, wife of the artist, 1943)
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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