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Bridge of the Saraceus – Historic Reproduction

Bridge of the Saraceus — historic print
Bridge of the Saraceus. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Bridge of the Saraceus. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Bridge of the Saraceus

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*Bridge of the Saraceus* is a color woodcut, and its title names a place or subject that the record does not explain, so the bridge's location is best read from the image itself. The sheet is fairly large, about 46 by 66 centimeters, and its date is estimated in the record as the 1950s. Color woodcut, printed from a separate carved block for each hue, was a technique many printmakers chose in the early and mid twentieth century for its flat fields of strong color and the visible grain of the wood. Look closely at how the carved lines build up the stonework and the water.

Medium1 print : col. woodcut ; 46.2 x 65.7 cm.
Notes[195-]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,142 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120629

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