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Old Hungerford Bridge – Vintage Wall Art

Old Hungerford Bridge — historic print
Old Hungerford Bridge. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Old Hungerford Bridge comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Whistler's etching shows the old Hungerford suspension bridge spanning the Thames in London, a structure that opened in the 1840s and was later replaced by a railway crossing. He made a series of river views like this in the early 1860s, often working quickly from the banks and from boats. Here the bridge's chains and piers dissolve into loose, sketchy lines and shifting light over the water. The card gives no date, but the subject places the work just before the old bridge was taken down. Notice how little Whistler needed to suggest the busy riverfront.

Medium1 print : etching.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsEtching by Whistler. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--Works; Gt. Brit.--Brig.--London; Bridges, Suspension; Artists Wks.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,037 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126830

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