Portrait of Gerome Ferris
date: label: date made
content: Christmas, 1894
label: date made
content: 1894
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: Stephen Ferris drew this pencil portrait of his son Gerome as a Christmas present for his new daughter-in-law, Annette Ryder Ferris, in 1894. Gerome and Annette were married in May of that year.
label: Description
content: In 1927 Gerome Ferris made the first donation to the Smithsonian of prints, drawings, and photographs that he and his father had collected, and his widow made a second donation in 1932.
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.16656
label: catalog number
content: GA*16656
label: accession number
content: 119780
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: 26.5 cm x 18.5 cm; 10 7/16 in x 7 5/16 in