Object Details
graphic artist
Ferris, Stephen James
Description
Stephen James Ferris etched this self-portrait in October of 1880, probably as one of the prints exchanged by members of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers. Ferris was a founding member of the society, which formed earlier that year, three years after the establishment of the New York Etching Club, the first in the United States. Ferris had seen the etching process demonstrated in 1860 by John Sartain, an engraver. In 1875 Ferris produced one of his earliest etchings to be commercially published in the United States, a portrait of Mariano Fortuny (1838–1874).
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Ferris Collection
Date made
1880
ID Number
GA.14388.02
accession number
94830
catalog number
14388
Object Name
print
etching
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements
image: 12.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 4 15/16 in x 3 3/4 in
plate: 13.5 cm x 10 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 15/16 in
sheet: 29 cm x 20.5 cm; 11 7/16 in x 8 1/16 in
place made
United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Related Publication
Prints of Nature: Poetic Etchings of Mary Nimmo Moran
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Communications
Art
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Portraits
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1001661