Portrait of Abigail Dean
date: label: date made
content: 1875-08-05
label: date made
content: 1875
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: In 1875 on a visit to Rock Island, Illinois, Stephen Ferris sketched his niece Abigail (or Abbie) in pencil. Abbie was one of five siblings in the family of Ferris’s sister, Althea Ferris Dean. Abbie continued to live in Rock Island, remained single, and taught school. In one census, she was listed as a drawing teacher. Ferris himself taught for many years at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art and Design).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Portraits
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16684
label: catalog number
content: GA*16684
label: accession number
content: 119,780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 10 cm x 8 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 18 cm x 12 cm; 7 1/16 in x 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: support: 26 cm x 17 cm; 10 1/4 in x 6 11/16 in