About This Artwork

Fidelia Bridges
American, 1835-1923

Bird's Nest and Ferns, 1863

Oil on panel
20 x 16.8 cm (7 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
Inscription: signed, lower right: "F. Bridges / 1863"
On back of frame: oval sticker: "Pollock's / Picture Store / 10 Hamilton Place / Boston"; sticker fragment upper right: "(?) by F. Bridges / Laura A. J (?)"; stock number on frame: "44401"; inscription in pencil upsidedown on top: "F. Beid???"; half artist's supply mark stencil in red: "H. H(?) / Manuf (?) / Phila (?) / 10 (?)"
Restricted gift of Charles C. Haffner III, 1987.169

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of Art. Still Life Painting in Pennsylvania, May 29-July 31, 1988.

Publication History

Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), pp. 40-59, fig. 4.