S. J. Ferris Self-portrait
date: label: Date made
content: 1880
name: label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: Stephen James Ferris etched this self-portrait in October of 1880, probably as one of the prints exchanged by members of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers. Ferris was a founding member of the society, which formed earlier that year, three years after the establishment of the New York Etching Club, the first in the United States. Ferris had seen the etching process demonstrated in 1860 by John Sartain, an engraver. In 1875 Ferris produced one of his earliest etchings to be commercially published in the United States, a portrait of Mariano Fortuny (1838–1874).
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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Prints of Nature: Poetic Etchings of Mary Nimmo Moran
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ferris Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14388.02
label: accession number
content: 94830
label: catalog number
content: 14388
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 12.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 4 15/16 in x 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 13.5 cm x 10 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 29 cm x 20.5 cm; 11 7/16 in x 8 1/16 in