Portrait of Elizabeth Moran Ferris
date: label: date made
content: 1878
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: Stephen Ferris drew this pencil portrait of his wife, Elizabeth Anastasia Moran Ferris, in 1878. Ferris probably met Elizabeth through his friendship with her brothers, artists Thomas and Peter Moran. The couple married in 1862. Their son, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, a history painter and etcher, was born in 1863 and their daughter, May Electa Ferris, a landscape painter and etcher, in 1871.
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.16649
label: catalog number
content: GA*16649
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: 15 cm x 12.5 cm; 5 7/8 in x 4 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 24 cm x 18 cm; 9 7/16 in x 7 1/16 in