Object Details
- graphic artist
- Ferris, Stephen James
- Description
- Stephen James Ferris etched this self-portrait in October of 1880, probably as one of the prints exchanged by members of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers. Ferris was a founding member of the society, which formed earlier that year, three years after the establishment of the New York Etching Club, the first in the United States. Ferris had seen the etching process demonstrated in 1860 by John Sartain, an engraver. In 1875 Ferris produced one of his earliest etchings to be commercially published in the United States, a portrait of Mariano Fortuny (1838–1874).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Ferris Collection
- 1880
- ID Number
- GA.14388.02
- accession number
- 94830
- catalog number
- 14388
- Object Name
- etching
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 12.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 4 15/16 in x 3 3/4 in
- plate: 13.5 cm x 10 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 15/16 in
- sheet: 29 cm x 20.5 cm; 11 7/16 in x 8 1/16 in
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Related Publication
- Prints of Nature: Poetic Etchings of Mary Nimmo Moran
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Portraits
- Record ID
- nmah_1001661
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-0d2e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
