James Smillie, Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life – Youth
1852-1855
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James Smillie, Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life – Youth
1852-1855
Physical Qualities
Mezzotint, etching, and stipple, Sheet: 712 x 938 mm. (28 1/16 x 36 15/16 in.)
Image: 30 x 581 mm. (1 3/16 x 22 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2426
James L. Claghorn, sold to T. Harrison Garrett, 1885
Smillie, James, A Pilgrimage (unpublished autobiography), Smillie Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, reel 1710, frames 324-25. Abbott, Gorham D., Cole's 'Voyage of Life.' A Series of Allegorical Pictures...Painted by the Late Lamented Thomas Cole, of Catskill, N.Y., Engraved in the Highest Style of Art, by James Smillie, of New York, from the Originals in Pssession of Rev. Gorham D. Abbott, Spingler Institute, N.Y., New York: 1856. Schweizer, Paul D., ''So Exquisite a Transcript': James Smillie's Engravings after Thomas Cole's 'Voyage of Life',' (part I), Imprint, v. 11 no. 2 (Autumn 1986), p. 2-13. Le Blanc, Charles, Manuel de L'Amateur D'Estampes, Paris: E. Bouillon, 1854-88, vol. 3, p. 531 no. 5. Baker, William S., American Engravers and their Works, Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1875, no 12 p. 163.
Raftery, Andrew. "James Smillie Engraves a Voyage of Life." Art in Print 7.2 (July-August 2017): 12-18.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: LL (brown ink): 'PROO[F]'; BL (pencil): '/12' and 'Voyage of Life-proof'; BR (pencil, in diamond): '12132'; TR Corner (sideways): 'Smillie, J'. VERSO: LL (stamped in violet ink): 'JL' inside 'C' inside 'INSPERATA FLORUIT'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'THG' in oval.