Portrait of Grandma Moran
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
name: label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
notes: label: Description
content: Gerome Ferris thought enough of this etching, <i>Grandma Moran</i>, of his maternal grandmother, Mary Higson Moran, that he exhibited it in 1880 at the annual show of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was enrolled as a student. He made the print in 1879 after an 1876 pencil sketch by his father, Stephen Ferris, who had taught him to etch.
label: Description
content: Mary Moran was the mother of artists Peter, Edward, John, and Thomas Moran, brothers of Elizabeth Moran Ferris.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14435.01
label: accession number
content: 94830
label: catalog number
content: 14435.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 10.5 cm x 8 cm; 4 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 13.5 cm x 10 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 28 cm x 22 cm; 11 in x 8 11/16 in