Seventeenth-Century Ship
Seventeenth-Century Ship
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- Description
- Gerome Ferris’s unsigned pencil sketch of a ship under full sail with pennant jauntily flying in the breeze may be related to his circa 1930 painting Henry Morgan’s Knight of the Double Cross, 1670 where there is a similar ship.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- drawing
- date made
- ca 1920s
- original artist
- Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
- Physical Description
- graphite (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- sheet: 22.5 cm x 14 cm; 8 7/8 in x 5 1/2 in
- ID Number
- 1985.0650.008
- accession number
- 1985.0650
- catalog number
- 85.0650.008
- subject
- Ships
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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