Study for <i>Here Comes the Bride, 1759</i>
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This sheet with a sketch of George Washington in 1759 and notes about weather in Virginia in December, 1818, demonstrates some of the care Ferris took over his historical pictures. He researched the subjects meticulously. This sketch shows a Washington very similar to the one in Ferris’s painting <i>Here Comes the Bride, 1759</i>, circa 1930.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Presidents
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.16562.06
label: catalog number
content: 16562.06
label: accession number
content: 119780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (sheet material)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (image material)
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 16 cm x 13 cm; 6 5/16 in x 5 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: mount: 26 cm x 19 cm; 10 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in