The Snow Storm by James David Smillie
The Snow Storm
James David Smillie
Title
The Snow Storm
Artist
James David Smillie
1833 - 1909 (biography)Year
1881
Technique
etching
Image Size
4 3/8" x 5 7/8" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
not stated
Annotations
signed, dated "June 1881," and numbered "No. 19" in the plate along lower edge
Reference
Witthoft 22
Paper
antique-white tissue laid
State
published
Publisher
James R. Osgood, 'Poets and Etchers'
Inventory ID
BC010
Price
$500.00
Description
James David Smillie created "The Snow Storm" - also known as "The Sled and Traveller Stopped" - to ilustrate Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem of the same name in Poets and Etchers magazine, published 1882 (Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., p. 21). Two horses, one black, one white, wait patiently as their driver tightens their reins, riders huddled together in the open carriage. Around them the snow has settled onto the road, the boughs of bare trees, and the fence posts.