Chapel near Baveno

 

James David Smillie

  1833 - 1909 (biography)

1905  

Etching and aquatint 

8 15/16 x 6 15/16" platemark 

intitialed, pencil, lower right; monogram inscribed into plate, lower left 

unstated 

artist's monogram and "Campino / Lago di Maggiore / July 11 | '92" inscribed into plate lower left; "Aqua-Fortis / Apt. 1905" inscribed into plate lower right 

Witthoft 102, illustrated p. 273 

heavy, white wove 

 

 

20527 

Price On Request 

Smillie created this aquatint after a watercolor he painted on July 11, 1892, during his European trip. The chapel is near the small town of Baveno north of Campino. This aquatint bears the date of the origin of the watercolor and well as the date of the creation of the plate, April 1905.