Columbia Bridge, Susquehanna - Original Bartlett Steel Engraving - c. 1840
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Original 19th-century steel engraving with Columbia Bridge over the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, United States, with travellers in the foreground. Drawn by William Henry Bartlett and engraved by Henry Griffiths; lettered below, "Columbia Bridge (On the Susquehanna)".
Original 19th-century steel engraving with Columbia Bridge over the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, United States, with travellers in the foreground. Drawn by William Henry Bartlett and engraved by Henry Griffiths; lettered below, "Columbia Bridge (On the Susquehanna)".
Bartlett travelled North America from 1836, and his steel-engraved views are one of the fullest pictorial records of the American landscape and its great public works before photography. Columbia Bridge, over the Susquehanna, was in its day one of the longest covered wooden bridges in the world.
Medium: Steel engraving.
Artist / after: William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854).
Engraver: Henry Griffiths (d. 1849).
Date: c. 1840.
Dimensions: Image 4.8 x 7.4 in (12.1 x 18.9 cm).
Condition: Good. Wove paper with wide margins; an occasional foxing spot in the right margin, outside the image.
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Original 19th-century steel engraving with Columbia Bridge over the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, United States, with travellers in the foreground. Drawn by William Henry Bartlett and engraved by Henry Griffiths; lettered below, "Columbia Bridge (On the Susquehanna)".