Evelyn Hope; He Would be a Soldier
date: label: date made
content: fourth quarter of nineteenth century
name: label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Copper plate with images on both sides. On one side is the etched image of a dead woman with a grieving man beside her, a scene from Robert Browning's poem, Evelyn Hope: Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! /Sit and watch by her side an hour
label: Description (Brief)
content: Plate signed lower R: S. J. Ferris.There are no impressions in the collection.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Another image etched on the verso shows a boy in military uniform and pose, Title below image: He Would Be A Soldier/ Published by A. Day, No. 139 [Race] Street. Philadelp'a.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: poetry
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Military
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ferris Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14398
label: accession number
content: 94830
label: catalog number
content: 14398
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Plate, printing
label: Object Name
content: plate, printing
label: Object Type
content: intaglio printing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: plate: 43 cm x 33 cm; 16 15/16 in x 13 in