Portrait of Thomas Moran
date: label: date made
content: 1876
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: In 1876 Stephen Ferris made several pencil studies, showing his brother-in-law, artist Thomas Moran. The two men had known each other before Ferris’s marriage to Moran’s sister, Elizabeth Anastasia Moran, in 1862. Ferris had arrived in Philadelphia in 1856 and was recorded in 1861 as sharing a studio with Thomas Moran and Samuel Sartain, whose father, John Sartain, demonstrated the technique of etching for Moran and Ferris.
label: Description
content: Thomas Moran’s etched work and that of his wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, is well represented in the NMAH Graphic Arts collection. A number of their prints came as gifts from the Ferris family.
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.16662
label: catalog number
content: GA*16662
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 7.5 cm; 3 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 15.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 6 1/8 in x 4 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: mount: 25 cm x 18.5 cm; 9 13/16 in x 7 5/16 in