Boundary Bridge Over the Sure, Echternach

Description:

Charcoal sketch on paper. The sketch is a winter scene of a bridge over a river. Buildings and bare trees on teh far end of bridge (on the right side of the sketch). A label below the sketch on the cardboard mount reads: "BOUNDARY BRIDGE OVER THE SURE/ECHTERNACH/BY E. PEIXOTTO/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2970."

Date Made: ca 1918Associated Date: 1917-1918

Associated Person: War DepartmentArtist: Peixotto, Ernest Clifford

Location: Currently not on view

Depicted: Luxembourg: Echternach, Echternach

Related Event: World War I

Subject:

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Credit Line: War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: AF.25812Catalog Number: 25812Accession Number: 64592

Object Name: sketch

Physical Description: charcoal (overall production method/technique)Measurements: overall: 15 in x 17 in; 38.1 cm x 43.18 cmsketch: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-72c6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_445096

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