Bridge in the Pass of Glencoe, Scotland
Thomas Moran (American, born England, 1837-1926)
1888
- Medium
- Etching and mezzotint in black on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Plate: 23.8 × 29.4 cm (9 3/8 × 11 5/8 in.); Sheet: 27 × 37.5 cm (10 11/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Early in his career, the Hudson River School painter Thomas Moran steeped himself in British mezzotint engraving. He acquired both Richard Earlom’s Liber Veritatis reproductions after Claude Lorrain and J. M. W. Turner’s Liber Studiorum and pored over them. These formative pictorial series would long resonate with Moran’s landscapes, whether of the American West or the hills of Scotland. Turner’s “mountainous” category, and his Mer de Glace print of an alpine Swiss glacier, may have inspired Moran’s dramatic view of Glencoe. Both convey a sense of spontaneity and on-the-spot draftsmanship, with mezzotint shading adding volume.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
