Portrait of Electa Kinney Ferris
Portrait of Electa Kinney Ferris
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- Description
- Stephen Ferris made this pencil portrait of his mother from memory in 1890. She had died in 1848 near Yorkville, Illinois, after the birth of her fourteenth child, when Ferris was a boy of thirteen. Contrary to a contemporary biography’s claim that he was orphaned at ten, Ferris belonged to a large family which became even larger with his father’s remarriage. As a boy Ferris lived with a maternal uncle who offered him a chance to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from the age of seventeen.
- Object Name
- drawing
- drawing
- Other Terms
- drawing; Pencil
- date made
- 1898
- original artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- graphite (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 10 cm x 9 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 9/16 in
- sheet: 23.5 cm x 16.5 cm; 9 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in
- ID Number
- GA.16646
- catalog number
- 16646
- accession number
- 119780
- Credit Line
- Mrs. J. L. Gerome Ferris
- subject
- Portraits
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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