# Bridge in the Pass of Glencoe, Scotland

- By: Thomas Moran (American, born England, 1837-1926)
- Date: 1888
- Medium: Etching and mezzotint in black on cream laid paper
- Classification: Print
- 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
- Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/129535)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/89f99c8e-bba3-bbe3-ae42-8d60a76fadaf/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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