Portrait of Phoebe Harard Ferris
date: label: date made
content: 1906-08-10
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Stephen Ferris appended a long note on this pencil drawing of his grandmother Phoebe Harard Ferris: “This from memory a Portrait of Phoebe Harard Ferris Grand Isle Vt my grandmother of Providence Rhode Island lived 1775/1845. I saw her last in 1844 in my 10th year. I made this in one hour sketch at Cape May Point N. J. August 10th 1906. For my granddaughter Elizabeth M. Ferris.” Elizabeth Ferris was the daughter of Ferris’s son Gerome and his wife Annette.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Cape May Point
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.16648
label: catalog number
content: 16648
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: 6.5 cm x 4 cm; 2 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 21.5 cm x 15 cm; 8 7/16 in x 5 7/8 in