A Voice from the Cliffs, 1886

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Medium

etching in black on Japanese paper

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

Catalogue Raisonné

Witthoft 1992, no. 42 b/b

Accession Number

2018.44.61

Artists / Makers

James David Smillie (artist) American, 1833 - 1909

Winslow Homer (artist after) American, 1836 - 1910

Sylvester Rosa Koehler (publisher) American, 1837 - 1900

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Gerdts, William H., Dr. and Mrs.

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.