Object Details
- Description
- Given his father’s interest in North African subjects painted by artists like Mariano Fortuny, it is not surprising that the region inspired young Gerome Ferris’s 1877 etching Arab Snake Charmer. Fourteen-year-old Gerome learned to etch from his father. He later entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at the age of sixteen.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- graphic artist
- Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
- Date made
- 1877
- Credit Line
- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 11.5 cm x 8.5 cm; 4 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in
- plate: 13 cm x 10.5 cm; 5 1/8 in x 4 1/8 in
- sheet: 28 cm x 19 cm; 11 in x 7 1/2 in
- Object Name
