Pencil sketch on heavy grey paper, by Lloyd Mifflin. Pencil sketch on both sides, though sketch on back appears to be unfinished.
Front sketch: Haystacks in field in foreground, with trees, hill, and sky in background. Highlights in white pencil of chalk.
Back sketch: Unfinished showing field with roughly drawn haystacks and vegetation, looking down on the Susquehanna River with opposite shoreline shown, with a roughly drawn bridge going across the river.
Written on back of modern frame is: "Bridge at Columbia, c. 1871."
Heavy grey paper in unevenly cut around edges, the corner it torn away in the bottom right corner. Upper right corner is creased. Paper is beginning to fox, with some age discoloration. Framed under glass in a new frame.
Sketch by Lloyd Mifflin (and Thomas Moran?), "The Bridge at Wrightsville". Gray flecked paper has pencil sketch of landscape with river and bridge in distance. Mounted with homemade window mat of dark gray with line borders around window.
Kraft paper backing has "Wrightsville Bridge" in ink at top right and pencil inscriptions at center reading "acid free linen mat barrier and backing used herein - another Mifflin sketch on back of existing sketch-"
Provenance
Presumed to be inherited from Lloyd Mifflin by the Minich sisters
Thin, w/ molded plaster? foliate decoration on wood, painted black over original gold
Image Size
5 x 7 inches
Object Name
Drawing
Material
Paper
Medium
Drawing
Height (in)
5
Width (in)
7
Dimension Details
Image size. Frame H: 10.625 inches x W: 13.625 inches.
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2015-01-27
Condition Notes
Bottom right corner of sketch missing. Old glass in a plaster-molded thin wood frame is painted flat black over original gold. Multiple paint chips. Backing paper perforated especially at top and left side.
