Golden Gate From Telegraph Hill - Hand Colored

After James David Smillie. Prior to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Artist: James David Smillie
Print Type: Engraving
Date: 1873
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Origin: American
Dimensions: 13 x 10
Subject: American Scenery

Notes & Literature: James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 – September 14, 1909), American artist, was born in New York City.

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 1865—the year after he first began painting—and an academician in 1876; and was a founder (1866) of the American Water Color Society, of which he was treasurer in 1866–73 and president in 1873–78, and of the New York Etching Club.Among his paintings, in oils, are Evening among the Sierras (1876) and The Cliffs of Normandy (1885), and in water colour, A Scrub Race (1876) and The Passing Herd (1888). He wrote and illustrated the article on the Yosemite in Picturesque America. A portrait of Smillie by Henry Augustus Loop is in the collection of the National Academy of Design, as is another by James Hamilton Shegogue

Condition Report: Very Good. Hand Colored.

Subject References: History Scenery American 19th Century Great Lakes