Portrait of Luman Reed - after Asher B. Durand

 

James David Smillie

  1833 - 1909 (biography)

1894  

etching 

5 3/4 x 4" image size; 10 x 6-7/8" platemark 

pencil signed, lower right 

proof 

pencil annotated below the signature: "NY May '94" ; further annotated by the artist at the lower platemark:"Portrait of Luman Reed." plate incised: "A B Durand" and "J.D Smillie" 

Witthoff 79; Smillie 79; NYPL 76 

cream wove 

i/ii 

commissioned by John Durand for "The Life and Times of A. B. Durand" but not used 

BC003 

$900.00