The Forth Bridge

A. Duprez

ca. 1890 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

A symbol of Scotland, the Forth Bridge carries trains over a firth (ocean inlet) eight miles from Edinburgh. Designed by British engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Barker, it was opened by the Prince of Wales on March 4, 1890 and measures 8,296 feet. The world's longest single cantilever span when built, it is now surpassed only by the Quebec Bridge in Canada, completed in 1917. Duprez, who worked during the Etching Revival, creates a moody image of the great metal construction with a small steam engine at upper right, and fishermen on the water used to establish scale.

Artist

A. Duprez

Date

ca. 1890

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Helene Greenberg Wyman Collection, 2015