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James Smillie Proof Engraving of ABNC Intaglio Vignette "Sheep Under the Oak" ca.1860-70's.

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James Smillie Proof Engraving of ABNC Intaglio Vignette  Sheep Under the Oak  ca.1860-70's.
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New York. ND (1860's). Used on Obsolete Banknotes, Stocks, bonds and checks. 10 x 7.5 inch ABN LDP Proof Vignette printed on india paper that is mounted. "645" imprint, printed by ABNC. VF condition, with James Smillie's name (the father) listed at the bottom right margin and his son, James D. Smillie at lower left, as Smillie senior was the original engraver of this piece and possibly originally painted by his son. 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.