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Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome,
Portrait male -- Washington, George
Portrait female -- Lewis, Lawrence, Mrs. (Eleanor Parke Custis)
Cityscape -- Pennsylvania
Portrait group -- Family
Architecture exterior -- Domestic
Literature -- Literary Digest
Illustration
Painting
News from Mount Vernon, 1796 (Cover Illus. for the Literary Digest, March 12, 1932, (painting).
Artist:
Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930, painter.
Title:
News from Mount Vernon, 1796 (Cover Illus. for the Literary Digest, March 12, 1932, (painting).
Dates:
ca. 1930.
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
30 x 24 in.
Inscription:
(Lower left:) ARF signed
Description:
A scene showing the mail delivery at the Executive Mansion, with George Washington dressed in black, his adopted daughter Eleanor Custis and a girl friend, waiting on the steps while the messenger reads the mail. A dog stands next to the messanger; and young man stands behind Washington.
Subject:
Portrait male -- Washington, George -- Full length
Portrait female -- Lewis, Lawrence, Mrs. (Eleanor Parke Custis) -- Full length
Cityscape -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Portrait group -- Family -- Father & Child
Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Morris Mansion
Literature -- Literary Digest
Object Type:
Illustration
Painting
Owner:
Virginia Historical Society, 428 North Boulevard, P. O. Box 7311, Richmond, Virginia 23221 Accession Number: 996.49.10
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Archives of '76, Westlake, Ohio
Remarks:
The painting was purchased from the Ferris estate (Archives of '76) in 1996, and is part of the Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art, Virginia Historical Society.
References:
Virginia Historical Society, 1998.
Exh. Cat., Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1985, "Jean Leon Gerome. Ferris, 1863-1930: American Painter Historian."
Illustration:
Exh. Cat., Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1985, "Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1863-1930: American Painter Historian," Cp. 60.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 87360055
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Inventory of American Paintings
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