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Landscape with Sheep

James David Smillie (American, 1833–1909)
After: Charles Émile Jacque (French, 1813–1894)
American
1879

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 27.2 × 22.3 cm (10 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK2029
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Witthoft 13, third working proof
DescriptionThird working proof
Marks Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler (Lugt 1580)
Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Koehler Collection (Lugt 1581)
InscriptionsLower left, in plate: JSmillie. N.Y. No. 12.
Lower right, in plate: ch. Jacque
Lower right, in graphite, in the hand of James Smillie: Third working imp -
On mat, lower right, in graphite, in the hand of Sylvester Koehler: Printed by the artist himself.
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.

NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.