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A Lady of Cairo Visiting

James David Smillie (American, 1833–1909)
After: Frederic Arthur Bridgman (American, 1847–1928)
American
1881

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 39.7 × 27.9 cm (15 5/8 × 11 in.)
Platemark: 23.2 × 18.9 cm (9 1/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK2035
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Witthoft 19, second trial proof
Marks Lower left, stamped in violet ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler (Lugt 1580)
Lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Koehler Collection (Lugt 1581)
InscriptionsLower right, in plate: F. A. Bridgman 1880.
Lower left, in graphite, in the hand of James Smillie: Second state. 8.
Lower right, in graphite, in the hand of James Smillie: J.D.S.
Lower left, in graphite, in the hand of James Smillie: To Mr S. R. Koehler.
Lower right, in graphite: S.R.K.
ProvenanceBy 1898, gift of the artist to Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)

NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.