[A woman swearing a child] [art original].

A pregnant woman holds a bible in one hand and rests her other hand on her protruding stomach while 'swearing a child' before a shocked looking magistrate. The alleged father(?) is kneeling beside the woman with clasped hands and his hat removed and resting on the floor. Completing the scene a clerk apperas to be loudly advising the magistrate and a solemn looking constable stands off to the side