The Great East River Suspension Bridge: Connecting the Cities of New York and Brooklyn, 1881

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 22.7 × 32.7 cm (8 15/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

sheet: 34.29 × 44.77 cm (13 1/2 × 17 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Catalogue Raisonné

Reilly 1984, no. 2810

Accession Number

2015.19.770

Artists / Makers

Currier and Ives (printer) 1857 - 1907

Currier and Ives (publisher) 1857 - 1907

Image Use

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Inscription

Text at bottom of stone:
Published by Currier & Ives / Copyright 1881, by Currier & Ives, N.Y. / 115 Nassau St. New York. / The Great East River Suspension Bridge. / Connecting the Cities of New York and Brooklyn. / The bridge crosses the river by a single span of 1595 ft. suspended by four cables 15 1/2 inches in diameter. The approach on the New York side / is 2,492 ft., the approach on the Brooklyn side is 1,901 ft. Total length 5,988 ft. From high water to roadway, 120 ft. From / roadway to top 157 ft. From high water to centre of span, 135 ft. Width of bridge, 85 ft. Total height of Towers, 277 ft.

Provenance

(Harold Hill & Son, Newcastle upon Tyne, England); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1977: American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977

1977: Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1989: Under Pressure: Western Printmaking from the 15th Century to the Present, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, 1989; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, 1990

Bibliography

1970: Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 119, no. 2594.

1984: Reilly, Bernard F., Jr. Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné: A Comprehensive Catalogue of the Lithographs of Nathaniel Currier, James Merrit Ives and Charles Currier, including Ephemera Associated with the Firm, 1834-1907, volume 1. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1984, p. 288, no. 2810.