Bridge in the Pass of Glencoe, Scotland

Prints and Drawings

1888

Thomas Moran
American, born England, 1837-1926

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Thomas Moran
Title: Bridge in the Pass of Glencoe, Scotland
Origin: United States
Date: 1888
Medium: Etching and mezzotint in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 238 × 294 mm (plate); 270 × 375 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.823
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