Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge

Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge by C. F. William Mielatz

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

railroad stationNew YorkrainFigure group

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...

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