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The artist James Sharples did this pastel portrait of Sarah Livingston Jay and her two youngest children, William and Sarah Louisa, in 1798. The rescue of two baby birds from a fallen bird’s nest serves as a metaphor for Mrs. Jay’s maternal love and protection of her two small children.