Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Accession Number
1983.19.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
C.. William Mielatz’s1892 print “Entrance Brooklyn Bridge” captures moody moment in New York’s rapidly expanding urban. Created just nine years the bridge’s completion the work shows the bustling approach near a railroad, where a group of moves through falling rain As a graphic arts print likely an etching, allowed artists to record the city’s changing character with fine detail and atmospheric effect, making such scenes widely accessible to the public. Mielatz, active in the late nineteenth century, specialized in New York views that balanced architectural precision with the drama of weather...