Object Details
- original artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- Description
- In 1881 Stephen Ferris and his son, Gerome, sailed to Spain aboard the S. S.Washington to visit places associated with Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny. During the journey, Stephen Ferris, a portrait artist by profession, claimed he had sketched everyone on board. Although many of these drawings had been pronounced “excellent,” he discarded all but this one in pencil of Srta. Delores Arrojo de Mexico, “a Mexican Indian girl, a real picturesque subject which I intend to paint sometime with fruit and flowers and a good size in oil then etch it.” We do not know whether Ferris ever etched or painted her.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1881-05-16
- 1881
- ID Number
- GA.16685
- catalog number
- GA*16685
- accession number
- 119,780
- Object Name
- drawing
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- graphite (part material)
- watercolor (part material)
- Measurements
- image: 15 cm x 10.5 cm; 5 7/8 in x 4 1/8 in
- sheet: 18 cm x 12.5 cm; 7 1/16 in x 4 15/16 in
- place made
- Gibraltar: Gibraltar
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Technology
- Portraits
- Record ID
- nmah_1344405
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-b509-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
