Fairgrounds with Sheep, Montrose

 

James David Smillie

  1833 - 1909 (biography)

1905  

soft-groud etching and aquatint 

5 x 5 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

proof 

pencil annotated "J.D.S. imp", lower left; incised in the plate in the lower rigfht: "J.D.S. Apr. 1905" 

Witthoff 105; NYPL 97; LOC1 0 

cream wove 

ii/iii, after aquatint was added but before the addition of mezzotint & drypoint 

artist 

BC170 

$600.00 

A pastroal image of the undeveloped fairgrounds of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Now a major event venue, at the time in which this etching was made the fairgrounds were surrounded by a relatively rural landscape, abutting lush, rolling hillsides.