Portrait of Elizabeth Moran Ferris
- Description
- Stephen Ferris drew this pencil portrait of his wife, Elizabeth Anastasia Moran Ferris, in 1878. Ferris probably met Elizabeth through his friendship with her brothers, artists Thomas and Peter Moran. The couple married in 1862. Their son, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, a history painter and etcher, was born in 1863 and their daughter, May Electa Ferris, a landscape painter and etcher, in 1871.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- drawing
- date made
- 1878
- original artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- graphite (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 15 cm x 12.5 cm; 5 7/8 in x 4 15/16 in
- sheet: 24 cm x 18 cm; 9 7/16 in x 7 1/16 in
- ID Number
- GA*16649
- catalog number
- GA*16649
- accession number
- 119,780
- subject
- Art
- Communications
- Portraits
- Ferris Collection
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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