The Voyage of Life: Youth

1850

James Smillie

Artist, American, born Scotland, 1807 - 1885

J. Dalton

Printer, American, active mid-19th century

American Art-Union

Publisher, est. 1838 - closed 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 38.58 × 58.1 cm (15 3/16 × 22 7/8 in.)
    sheet (trimmed to plate): 50.64 × 67.47 cm (19 15/16 × 26 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.339

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. L. W. Casey; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1930; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1986

  • Schweizer, Paul D. "'So Exquisite a Transcript': James Smillie's Engravings after Cole's Voyage of Life". Imprint 11, no. 2 (Autumn 1986), pp. 2-13.

2017

  • Raftery, Andrew. "James Smillie Engraves a Voyage of Life". Art in Print 7, no. 2 (July-August 2017), pp. 12-18.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: T. Cole / 1840; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: B J Leedom / Germantown / late 9 above arch
text at bottom in plate:
Painted by Thomas Cole. / Engraved by James Smillie / The Voyage of Life _ Youth. / From the original painting distributed by the American Art-Union / Published exclusively for the Members of 1849. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by the American Art Union in the Clerks Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. / Printed by J. Dalton.

Wikidata ID

Q77012639

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