Object Details
- graphic artist
- Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
- Description
- Given his father’s interest in North African subjects painted by artists like Mariano Fortuny, it is not surprising that the region inspired young Gerome Ferris’s 1877 etching Arab Snake Charmer. Fourteen-year-old Gerome learned to etch from his father. He later entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at the age of sixteen.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
- 1877
- ID Number
- GA.14438.03
- accession number
- 94830
- catalog number
- 14438.03
- Object Name
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 11.5 cm x 8.5 cm; 4 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in
- plate: 13 cm x 10.5 cm; 5 1/8 in x 4 1/8 in
- sheet: 28 cm x 19 cm; 11 in x 7 1/2 in
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Ferris Collection
- Communications
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- snake
- Record ID
- nmah_1001813
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-12f6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
