Engravings after Thomas Cole by James David Smillie c. 1855. Thomas Cole, famed as the founder of the Hudson River school of painting, was commissioned in 1837 to create a series of four allegorical landscapes depicting childhood, youth, manhood and old age. Image sizes: 15 1/2 x 22 3/4 inches, published by James H. Earle, printed by J. H. Daniels, Boston. A few minor repairs, mostly in the margins.