Portrait of a Mexican Girl
date: label: date made
content: 1881-05-16
label: date made
content: 1881
name: label: original artist
content: Ferris, Stephen James
notes: label: Description
content: In 1881 Stephen Ferris and his son, Gerome, sailed to Spain aboard the S. S.<i>Washington</i> to visit places associated with Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny. During the journey, Stephen Ferris, a portrait artist by profession, claimed he had sketched everyone on board. Although many of these drawings had been pronounced “excellent,” he discarded all but this one in pencil of Srta. Delores Arrojo de Mexico, “a Mexican Indian girl, a real picturesque subject which I intend to paint sometime with fruit and flowers and a good size in oil then etch it.” We do not know whether Ferris ever etched or painted her.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Gibraltar: Gibraltar
topic: label: Subject
content: Technology
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: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16685
label: catalog number
content: GA*16685
label: accession number
content: 119,780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: watercolor (part material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 15 cm x 10.5 cm; 5 7/8 in x 4 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 18 cm x 12.5 cm; 7 1/16 in x 4 15/16 in