The Voyage of Life: Youth
James Smillie, American, 1807 - 1885
after Thomas Cole, American, 1801 - 1848
1855
Engraving on wove paper
Image: 15 1/8 × 22 3/4 in. (38.4 × 57.8 cm)
Sheet: 21 × 25 1/2 in. (53.3 × 64.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor George Breed Zug
PR.921.27.3
Printer
H. Peters
Publisher
James Smillie
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, lower left below image: PAINTED BY THOMAS COLE; printed, lower right below image: ENGRAVED BY JAMES SMILLIE; printed, lower center: THE VOYAGE OF LIFE _ YOUTH. / From the original Painting by Thomas Cole, in the possession of Rev.d [superscript] Gorham D. Abbott, Spingler Institute, New York; printed, lower center: “Entered according to Act of Congress U.S.A. __ by James Smillie in the Clerk’s Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York”; printed, lower left: “Beware what earth calls happiness: Beware / All joys but joys that never can expire. / Who builds on less than an immortal base / Condemns his joys to death.”; printed, lower right: “The garden palace of my God / Towering above the clouds I see; / Beyond the cherubs bright abode, / Higher than angels thoughts can be.”; printed, lower left: PROOF; printed, lower right: Printed by H. Peters; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower right: 4 [circled]; stamped, in black ink, on reverse, lower left: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / DEPT. OF ART AND / ARCHEOLOGY
Exhibition History
Nineteenth Century American Prints, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-June 12, 1977.
The Landscape: Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 12-August 9, 1981.
Provenance
George Breed Zug (1867-1943, Dartmouth Professor of Art History, 1913-1932); given to present collection, 1921.
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