Title(s)

Progress made in sixteen months

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1638-34

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate XXXIV.’
• inscription: ‘State of work during 1888. (...) progress made in 79 months from date of commencement of foundations.’

Artist

• maker: anonymous
• printer: Photophane Company (mentioned on object)

Place

United Kingdom

Dating

Apr-1888 - Sep-1889

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 336 mm × width 815 mm

What

• building-site
• bridge
• building materials

Where

• Forth Bridge

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The Forth Bridge in its various stages of construction and compared with the most notable bridges of the world (RP-F-2001-7-1638)