c1914, watercolour, 54.6×74.9cm
Standard reference: Bunt 644
Provenance: Miss le Rossignol; Mrs C E Beresford Ryley in 1958; pwu.
Illustrated: Shaw-Sparrow, Book of Bridges, London, 1915, facing p32. Bunt, plate 22.
Exhibited: Queen’s Gate, 1924, cat 126. Drawings of Bridges etc by Brangwyn, Whitworth Institute, Manchester, 1916.
A signed print of this work was published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, mounted and framed, 36cm x 45cm, titled Continental bridge over a river.
Fairly undetailed sketch of bridge in background with town left. Two trees centre and a third right punctuating the foreground. A dark river bank foreground right with washerwomen.
The ancient Roman bridge spans the river Tagus in Toledo, Spain. The word Alcántara comes from Arabic القنطرة (al-qanţarah), which means “arch”. In the Middle Ages it was one of the few entrances for pilgrims into the city.