A Voice from the Cliffs

1886

James David Smillie

Artist, American, 1833 - 1909

Sylvester Rosa Koehler

Publisher, American, 1837 - 1900

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.51 × 25.4 cm (6 1/2 × 10 in.)
    plate (approximately): 22.86 × 30.48 cm (9 × 12 in.)
    sheet: 27.94 × 36.83 cm (11 × 14 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.44.61

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Witthoft 1992, no. 42 b/b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rona Schneider, New York); William and Abigail Gerdts, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Bibliography

1992

  • Witthoft, Brucia. _The Fine-Arts Etchings of James David Smillie, 1833-1909: Catalogue Raisonné _. Wales, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992, p. 148, no. 42.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: JD Smillie / Aqua-fortis / 1886; lower right in plate: Winslow Homer 1883; lower right, below image, in graphite: James D. Smillie

Wikidata ID

Q77261140

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