Portrait of Gerome Ferris

Description:

Stephen Ferris sketched his sleeping four-year-old son Gerome in October 1867. He used this pencil drawing as a model for the sleeping child in his painting Grandma’s Spinning Wheel, also completed in 1867. At a later date, Gerome Ferris came across this sketch and noted in pencil: “I have seen no drawing better than this past or present JLGF," but, of course, he was the subject and possibly prejudiced

Date Made: 18671867-10-24

Depicted (Sitter): Ferris, Jean Leon GeromeOriginal Artist: Ferris, Stephen James

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Subject: FamilyChildren

Subject:

See more items in: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts, Ferris Collection, Communications, Art

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: GA.16653Catalog Number: GA*16653Accession Number: 119780

Object Name: drawingObject Type: Drawings

Physical Description: paper (overall material)graphite (overall material)Measurements: sheet: 16.5 cm x 11 cm; 6 1/2 in x 4 5/16 insupport: 26 cm x 18 cm; 10 1/4 in x 7 1/16 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-ad7c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1345988

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