The Little Nurseling, Take Him to Thy Love

Ferdinand Joubert, after George Elgar Hicks

National Gallery of Art

The image depicts four figures in a drawing. In the center, there is a Native American man standing upright, holding a long spear in one hand and resting his other hand on the head of a child next to him. He is wearing traditional attire, including a feathered headdress and a cloth draped over his shoulder. Beside him, on the left, is a man in colonial-style clothing, bending slightly forward with one arm extended towards the Native American man. Kneeling beside the colonial man is a young girl holding onto his leg, dressed in a long, modest dress. Another child stands to the right of the Native American man, looking downwards. The background features a simple, pastoral setting with lines indicating trees or foliage, a wooden structure on the right, and a picket fence that recedes into the distance.