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The image shows a landscape with a calm body of water, distant hills, a line of trees, and a small bridge. The perspective is low to the ground, with a monochromatic color palette of varying shades of gray and sepia. The brushstrokes are delicate and soft. Vegetation lines the water's edge, and the water surface reflects the sky above.
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The image shows a landscape with a calm body of water, distant hills, a line of trees, and a small bridge. The perspective is low to the ground, with a monochromatic color palette of varying shades of gray and sepia. The brushstrokes are delicate and soft. Vegetation lines the water's edge, and the water surface reflects the sky above.

National Gallery of Art · Print

An Old Dam Near Montrose

James David Smillie

Date
1891
Medium
aquatint in black on chine collé
Dimensions
image: 16.8 x 11.9 cm (6 5/8 x 4 11/16 in) plate: 16.7 x 13 cm (6 9/16 x 5 1/8 in) sheet: 20.2 x 15 cm (7 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2002.98.193
Credit line
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • Landscape
  • non-representational
  • aquatint
Provenance

(Andrew Stasik Fine Arts, Darien, CT); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 3, 1997; gift to NGA, 2002.

Inscription

lower left in plate: J.D. Smillie; lower right in graphite: James D. Smillie / Feb. '92; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: Pratt Institute / after burnishing

NGA object ID 119993. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.