Title: Maternity
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1784
Culture: American
Artist:  Benjamin West 
Artist bio: American, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738–1820 London
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Red chalk on thin off-white laid paper, mounted on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: 14 5/16 x 11 9/16 in. (36.4 x 29.4 cm)
Credit line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2002
Department: The American Wing
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Children, term: Mothers, term: Women, term: Nursing