Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 700 x 925 mm. (27 9/16 x 36 7/16 in.)
Plate: 510 x 655 mm. (20 1/16 x 25 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2421
James L. Claghorn, sold to T. Harrison Garrett, 1885
Paul Schweizer, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "The Voyage of Life by Thomas Cole: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints," October 5-December 15, 1985, ill. fig. 59.
WIlliam Truettner and Alan Wallach, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., "Thomas Cole: Landscape into History," March 18-August 7, 1994. Circulated to Wadsworth Athaneum, Hartford, CT, and New-York Historical Society.
WIlliam Truettner and Alan Wallach, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., "Thomas Cole: Landscape into History," March 18-August 7, 1994. Circulated to Wadsworth Athaneum, Hartford, CT, and New-York Historical Society.
Inscribed: RECTO: In plate, LL: 'Painted by Thomas Cole / Who shall preserve [...] to bow?' and 'proof'; in plate, lower margin: 'From the original Painting by Thomas Cole in the Possession of Rev. Gorham D. Abbott, Spingler Institute New York / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by James Smillie in the Clerks Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York'; in plate, LR: 'Engraved by James Smillie / this world is [...] beautiful child'; LR (pencil): '12130'.
Markings: CM: VERSO: Claghorn stamp and Garrett stamp
