Portrait of Electa Kinney Ferris
date: label: date made
content: 1898
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: Stephen Ferris made this pencil portrait of his mother from memory in 1890. She had died in 1848 near Yorkville, Illinois, after the birth of her fourteenth child, when Ferris was a boy of thirteen. Contrary to a contemporary biography’s claim that he was orphaned at ten, Ferris belonged to a large family which became even larger with his father’s remarriage. As a boy Ferris lived with a maternal uncle who offered him a chance to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from the age of seventeen.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. J. L. Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16646
label: catalog number
content: 16646
label: accession number
content: 119780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pencil
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 10 cm x 9 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 23.5 cm x 16.5 cm; 9 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in