Girl Holding Lamb
date: label: Date made
content: 1887
name: label: original artist
content: Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
notes: label: Description
content: Gerome Ferris etched this print after French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s (1825–1905)<i> New Born Lamb</i>, painted in 1873. Ferris’s print appeared in the catalog for the 1887 New York auction of the A. T. Stewart collection, as a reproductive etching advertising the painting for sale.
label: Description
content: Gerome Ferris had studied with Bouguereau in Paris in 1884 at the Académie Julian, a co-ed art school with no entrance exams and low fees. An academic-style painter, Bouguereau’s work was highly regarded in his day.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Sheep
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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.14560
label: catalog number
content: 14560
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 20 cm x 10.5 cm; 7 7/8 in x 4 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 22.5 cm x 17.5 cm; 8 7/8 in x 6 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 31.5 cm x 25.5 cm; 12 3/8 in x 10 1/16 in