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Woman Carrying a Baby is by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720 to 1778.  The drawing measures 6 4/5" high by 3 9/10" wide.

It incorporates both ink pen and brush with ink.  The picture on the left below is my finished drawing with a photocopy of the original to its left.  On the right is my work in progress.  After drawing with the pen and before applying the brush and ink, which I had never done before, I decided to make a copy.  I don't know what I would have done with it because a botched job would have meant starting from scratch, but I wanted to capture it for my own good.

I like the way he portrays the face of the child and the mood of the drawing as a whole.