Art, literature & history
The Way to the River
1880
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in black
- Dimensions
- plate: 19.7 × 15.2 cm (7 3/4 × 6 in.) sheet: 27.4 × 24.7 cm (10 13/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2008.115.4471
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James David Smillie. The Way to the River. James David Smillie; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_David_Smillie,_The_Way_to_the_River,_1880,_NGA_148258.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Way to the River — James David Smillie. 1880.
Medium: etching in black.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 19.7 × 15.2 cm (7 3/4 × 6 in.) sheet: 27.4 × 24.7 cm (10 13/16 × 9 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2008.115.4471. Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.