The Voyage of Life: Youth, 1850

Not on View

Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.339

Artists / Makers

James Smillie (artist) American, born Scotland, 1807 - 1885

Thomas Cole (artist after) American, 1801 - 1848

J. Dalton (printer) American, active mid-19th century

American Art-Union (publisher) est. 1838 - closed 1852

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Casey, L. W.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

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.