Portrait of Gerome Ferris
date: label: date made
content: 1867
label: date made
content: 1867-10-24
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: Stephen Ferris sketched his sleeping four-year-old son Gerome in October 1867. He used this pencil drawing as a model for the sleeping child in his painting <i>Grandma’s Spinning Wheel</i>, also completed in 1867. At a later date, Gerome Ferris came across this sketch and noted in pencil: “I have seen no drawing better than this past or present JLGF," but, of course, he was the subject and possibly prejudiced
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Family
label: Subject
content: Children
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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.16653
label: catalog number
content: GA*16653
label: accession number
content: 119780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 16.5 cm x 11 cm; 6 1/2 in x 4 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: support: 26 cm x 18 cm; 10 1/4 in x 7 1/16 in