Notes and Sketches for Here Comes the Bride, 1759
Notes and Sketches for Here Comes the Bride, 1759
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- Description (Brief)
- Gerome Ferris took pains with his historical paintings as this unsigned sheet about Washington’s marriage demonstrates. There are contemporary details of Martha Custis’s wedding gown and of what Washington would have worn with the comment, “Hair powdered (thank God for that).” Sometimes the researcher finds altogether too much information: Ferris noted, probably in some despair, “none of these agree.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- drawing
- date made
- 20th century
- original artist
- Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
- Physical Description
- paper (sheet material)
- graphite (image material)
- Measurements
- sheet: 25.5 cm x 20 cm; 10 1/16 in x 7 7/8 in
- ID Number
- GA.16562.10
- catalog number
- 16562.10
- accession number
- 119780
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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