An Etching Society Outing
date: label: Date made
content: 1900
name: label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: This light-hearted etching by Stephen Ferris, the <i>Philadelphia Society of Etchers Outing in 1900</i>, recalls the sixth such event held by the Society on the Neshaminy River near Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Etching, eating, and games were the outing’s major activities.
label: Description
content: Ferris was a founding member of the Society, organized in 1880, and its first treasurer. Initially, it was an important source for information in the Philadelphia area about the newly revived technique of etching. The group met monthly during the summer for more than twenty years, offering occasions for its members to exchange prints.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
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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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: William C. Patterson. The Philadelphia Society of Etchers
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.14476
label: accession number
content: 94830
label: catalog number
content: 14476
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 18 cm x 12.5 cm; 7 1/16 in x 4 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 27.5 cm x 20 cm; 10 13/16 in x 7 7/8 in