Object Details
- depicted (sitter)
- Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
- original artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- Description
- Stephen Ferris sketched his sleeping four-year-old son Gerome in October 1867. He used this pencil drawing as a model for the sleeping child in his painting Grandma’s Spinning Wheel, also completed in 1867. At a later date, Gerome Ferris came across this sketch and noted in pencil: “I have seen no drawing better than this past or present JLGF," but, of course, he was the subject and possibly prejudiced
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1867
- 1867-10-24
- ID Number
- GA.16653
- catalog number
- GA*16653
- accession number
- 119780
- Object Name
- drawing
- Object Type
- Drawings
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- graphite (overall material)
- Measurements
- sheet: 16.5 cm x 11 cm; 6 1/2 in x 4 5/16 in
- support: 26 cm x 18 cm; 10 1/4 in x 7 1/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Family
- Children
- Record ID
- nmah_1345988
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-ad7c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
