Sunnyside, Irvington by James David Smillie
Sunnyside, Irvington
James David Smillie
Title
Sunnyside, Irvington
Artist
James David Smillie
1833 - 1909 (biography)Year
1880
Technique
etching
Image Size
4 1/8 x 6" platemark
Signature
signed J. D. Smillie in plate, in lower left
Edition Size
proof
Annotations
inscribed in the plate in the lower right: No. 13 N.Y. March 1880
Reference
Witthoff 15; Smillie 13
Paper
fine, ivory laid
State
ii/ii
Publisher
Inventory ID
BC005
Price
$350.00
Description
Sunnyside Cottage, depicted here looking north toward the Hudson River, is an estate that once was home to America’s first literary star, Washington Irving. It is now an historic landmark in Tarrytown, New York. It remains much the way it was when it was renovated and added onto by Irving after he bought it in 1853. What had started as a rural “cottage” quickly became a lush and fanciful estate that garnered the attention of artists and society columnists alike.
A note on the title: the boundaries of villages were being re-drawn for incorporation around the time that James David Smillie made this etching; Sunnyside was once in Irvington, named for the famed writer of Sleepy Hollow, but became a part of Tarrytown around the 1880s.