Bridge in the Pass of Glencoe, Scotland
Thomas Moran
1888
Medium
Etching and mezzotint in black on cream laid paper
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.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129535
About the Artist
Thomas Moran · 1837–1926
Thomas Moran (1837–1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School whose dramatic paintings of the American West played a pivotal role in the creation of the national parks. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he emigrated with his family to Philadelphia as a child. He was largely self-taught, though he apprenticed briefly with a wood engraver and studied the work of J.M.W...