Portrait of an Old Spanish Woman
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Ferris noted on the signed pencil sketch that he made it from memory of a photograph seen at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. The old woman died in 1875 at the purported age of 149. Her only means of support was said to have been an enormous grape vine, which covered 11 acres.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Wine
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.16692
label: catalog number
content: 16692
label: accession number
content: 119780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: graphite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 11.5 cm x 16 cm; 4 1/2 in x 6 5/16 in