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Take Your Son Sir! (1851-6) is an unfinished painting by Ford Madox Brown which depicts a woman showing her newborn son to its father. She is offering her baby towards the viewer of the painting who is implicitly equated with the father – seen in the mirror behind opening his arms to receive the baby. The mirror also forms a halo behind the mother’s head and the pattern on the wallpaper suggests the starry heavens.
