Evangeline
date: label: date made
content: 1887
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Gerome Ferris signed and dated the pen and ink drawing of Evangeline, heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem of that name, for reproduction as a photo-engraving for an auction catalog. There is a penciled note below the image about Evangeline’s spindle to New York publisher Charles Klackner. The touches of white were meant to heighten the black and white contrast for reproduction.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: Mrs. J. L. Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16623
label: catalog number
content: 16623
label: accession number
content: 119780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 34 cm x 25 cm; 13 3/8 in x 9 13/16 in