The Marble Bridge, Near the Lake, from the series, Views in Central Park, New York, Part 3
Medium
Color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 in. × 2 3/8 in. (10.2 × 6.1 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick, 1947
Accession Number
47.91.25(49)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This charming color lithograph, created by the renowned firm Louis Prang & Co. in 1864, captures an idyllic from New York’s newly Central Park. Titled *The Marble Bridge, Near the Lake*, it belongs the third installment of the *Views in Park* series. Measuring just four by two-and-three-eighths inches, the print depicts elegantly dressed visitors strolling and riding in carriages across an ornate stone bridge, offering a glimpse of the park as a vibrant public space for leisure and social display. Central Park itself was a revolutionary urban project, with construction beginning in the 1850s ...
About the Artist
Louis Prang & Co. · 1800–1950
Louis Prang & Co. was the Boston printing firm that introduced the Christmas card to the American public and elevated chromolithography to the level of a serious art form. Its founder, Louis Prang (1824–1909), was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland), where he trained as a cloth printer and dyer. After participating in revolutionary activity against the Prussian government, he fled first...