Deseret Evening News | 1901-06-13 | Page 3 | Smillie Print Collection

Print Collection New York June JUlie n a recent meeting of ot the New York public library a n letter vas ivas wa received from James Jame I 1 D Smillie announcing the gift of oC a II col collection lection of ot 93 prints for tor the depart department meat ment mn of ot prints Those These are from from steel U el engravings and of ot them are lite by b the time donors father the time late IntI mules James SmitHs Smillie extending from torn 1816 1126 down to tn time the close doe of ot his life In iii 1855 James was wasa a n famous engraver in his tiny day anti Isle his work Includes such subjects HI isa K Thomas Thom Coles Voyage onge of oC Life antI A Uler Rocky Mountains The ThO prints In ir II the collection are arc es especially valuable being engravers proofs proof of ot which only two or three thre ore struck oft off from the tIme plate Just before It Is III turned over to th the publisher her There Thero are also nl o full tull meU ts 01 ot working proofs the th evolution of ot nn on engraved plate Besides the works of or the collection en by about twenty of 0 hi hb con contemporaries temporaries