Ponton Bridge at Read's Landing, Minn.

Henry Peter Bosse, 1885

The image shows a water landscape with a high horizon, an elongated bridge, an island with dense vegetation, and a shoreline with plants and shrubs. The cyanotype style gives the image a blue tint. Closest to us is… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Henry Peter Bosse ¹
Date: 1885 ¹
Medium: cyanotype ¹
Original: 5,473 × 4,279 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Betsy S. Aubrey and E. Steve Lichtenberg, MD

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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