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The image depicts a pastoral landscape. There are grazing sheep, rocks, and low trees in the foreground. Rolling hills lead to a body of water in the distance, with a landmass beyond. The sky is filled with textured clouds. The landscape is created using fine, detailed linework and a monochromatic sepia color palette.
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The image depicts a pastoral landscape. There are grazing sheep, rocks, and low trees in the foreground. Rolling hills lead to a body of water in the distance, with a landmass beyond. The sky is filled with textured clouds. The landscape is created using fine, detailed linework and a monochromatic sepia color palette.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Bit on Marblehead Neck

James David Smillie

Date
1883
Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 12.7 × 30 cm (5 × 11 13/16 in.) sheet: 34.77 × 45.4 cm (13 11/16 × 17 7/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.1395
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow, 1968)
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • etching
  • Trees
  • Sheep
  • Rocks
  • landscape
Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower right in plate: No. 25. J.D. Smillie N.Y. '83; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: Jas. D. Smillie - At Marblehead Neck

NGA object ID 183239. 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.