A Fallow Field, 1883

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Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.7 x 30 cm (5 13/16 x 11 13/16 in.)

sheet: 26.8 x 39 cm (10 9/16 x 15 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jacob Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Witthoft 1992, no. 34

Accession Number

2002.98.191

Artists / Makers

James David Smillie (artist) American, 1833 - 1909

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: J.D. Smillie 0p. 31 / A Fallow Field / Etched from Nature - Montrose, Penna. / Oct. 9th '83; lower right in graphite: James D. Smillie

Provenance

(Conrad Graeber Fine Art, Glyndon, MD); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased September 26, 1998; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Graeber, Conrad
Kainen, Jacob

Bibliography

1992: Witthoft, Brucia. The Fine-Arts Etchings of James David Smillie, 1833-1909: Catalogue Raisonné . Wales, UK: Edwin Mellen Press,1992, p. 132, no. 34.