Object Details
- original artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Mrs. J. L. Gerome Ferris
- 1898
- ID Number
- GA.16646
- catalog number
- 16646
- accession number
- 119780
- Object Name
- drawing
- drawing
- Other Terms
- drawing; Pencil
- 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
- 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
- Portraits
- Record ID
- nmah_818391
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-461a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
