Drawing
- Title:
- Railroad Bridge - Bennington, N.H.
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.036.01
- Creator:
- Wibel, Herman V. (1909-1980)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1970
- Description:
- Drawing of covered bridge, Bennington, NH, by Herman V. Wibel (1909-1980). Black ink on illustration board. Horizontal rectangle. Enclosed roofed wooden bridge with latticework at top of sides. Bridge supported by stone abutment at each end and wooden pier in center. Viewed from river bank, downstream from bridge. Rocky river bed. Window mat, unattached, titled in ink at lower left, "Railroad Bridge - Bennington, N.H.", and signed in ink at lower right, "Wibel". Printed paper address label adhered to reverse of drawing: "HERMAN V WIBEL / PUMPKIN HL RD / WARNER N H 03278".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.9 W-11 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a group of seven covered bridge drawings presented by the artist to his friend Thomas Nugent of Jordan, NY, who gave the drawings to his sister, Elaine Smithson, the donor, in 2003.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Elaine Smithson
- People:
- Wibel, Herman V. (1909-1980)
- Subjects:
- Covered bridges, Railroad bridges
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