The Old Print Shop

Brooklyn Bridge, New York.

  • ARTIST: Sears Gallagher

  • MEDIUM: Etching,

    DATE: 1915.

  • EDITION SIZE: Edition Unknown. Image size 14 7/8 x 8 7/8" (37.8 x 22.5 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: The composition centers on the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the most iconic engineering achievements of nineteenth-century America, completed in 1883 and spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Gallagher’s etching typically emphasizes the bridge’s monumental Gothic arches and bridge platform, using the structure as both a focal point and a framework through which the surrounding urban and maritime activity is observed.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed in pencil lower left.

  • CONDITION: Very good condition. Faint mat line.

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