The Snow Storm

 

James David Smillie

  1833 - 1909 (biography)

1881  

etching 

4 3/8" x 5 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

signed, dated "June 1881," and numbered "No. 19" in the plate along lower edge 

Witthoft 22 

antique-white tissue laid 

published 

James R. Osgood, 'Poets and Etchers' 

BC010 

$500.00 

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.