Portrait of a Moor
date: label: date made
content: 1876
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: The 1876 Centennial Exposition brought people and exhibits from around the world to Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. Stephen Ferris, a resident of the city, visited the site on August 7 and recorded in pencil the face of this man, whom he called <i>Maure</i> [Moor]. The man may have been one of the workers associated with an exhibit from Tunisia or Morocco. Ferris was very interested in North African subject matter at this time, due to his fondness for the works of Mariano Fortuny.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16664
label: catalog number
content: GA*16664
label: accession number
content: 119,780
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: 8.5 cm x 8.5 cm; 3 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 15 cm x 11 cm; 5 7/8 in x 4 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: carrier: 28.5 cm x 22 cm; 11 1/4 in x 8 11/16 in