Object Details
- graphic artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- Description
- Stephen James Ferris etched an undated portrait of his daughter, May, in the costume of a bull fighter, and dedicated this impression to her. May Electa Ferris was born in 1871, eight years after her brother, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. Like her father and brother, she was an artist. She learned to etch from her father and became known as an etcher and landscape painter, exhibiting in the 1880s and 1890s. Her paintings were reproduced as calendar artwork into the 1920s under her married name, May Ferris Smith.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
- c. 1890
- ID Number
- GA.14405.01
- accession number
- 94830
- catalog number
- 14405.01
- Object Name
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 17.5 cm x 11 cm; 6 7/8 in x 4 5/16 in
- plate: 20 cm x 16 cm; 7 7/8 in x 6 5/16 in
- sheet: 43.5 cm x 30 cm; 17 1/8 in x 11 13/16 in
- place presumably made
- Spain
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1001702
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-b801-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
