Fairgrounds with Sheep, Montrose

 

James David Smillie

  1833 - 1909 (biography)

1905  

aquatint 

5 x 6 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

pencil annotated "J.D.S. imp", lower left 

NYPL 97; LC10; W105 

cream wove paper 

I/II 

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.