Thumbnail Sketches of Market People, Southern Spain
date: label: date made
content: 1881
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Stephen Ferris remarked in an 1881 letter from southern Spain, “when arrived at Gib[ralter] we [Ferris and his son Gerome] were delighted with the Tangiers market people Arab merchants. . . .” Perhaps these rapidly caught, varied individuals in ink, pencil and watercolor on this signed sheet are from the streets of Gibraltar.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Gibraltar
label: Associated Place
content: Spain
topic: label: Subject
content: Donkeys
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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: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14538
label: catalog number
content: 14538
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
label: Object Type
content: Watercolor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (images material)
label: Physical Description
content: watercolor (images material)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (images material)
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 21.5 cm x 17.5 cm; 8 7/16 in x 6 7/8 in