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James D. Smillie Intaglio Progress Proof Pair of ABNC "Native Americans around Fire", Dated 1861.

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James D. Smillie Intaglio Progress Proof Pair of ABNC  Native Americans around Fire , Dated 1861.
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This item SOLD at 2020 Dec 09 @ 16:51UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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New York, 1861, Pair of matching Progress proofs in various states of engraving, Hand stamped on the upper right corner in red "From the J.D. Smillie Collection". One is 8.25 x 5.25 inches, the other is 8 x 5.25 inches. Both are ABN LDP Proof Vignettes printed on india paper that is mounted on thin card. Both have writing in pencil at bottom margin, as well as a J. D. Smillie Collection stamp at top right. VF condition. James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 Ð September 15, 1909) was an American artist. His father, James Smillie (1807Ð1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William Cumming (1813Ð1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver. The son studied with him and in the National Academy of Design; engraved on steel vignettes for bank-notes and some illustrations, notably F. O. C. Darley's pictures for James Fenimore Cooper's novels; was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1865Ñthe year after he first began paintingÑand an academician in 1876; and was a founder (1866) of the American Water Color Society, of which he was treasurer in 1866Ð73 and president in 1873Ð78, and of the New York Etching Club.