The Grand Display of Fireworks and Illuminations at the Opening of the

A colored lithograph shows fireworks exploding in gold and white above a suspension bridge at night, seen from the New York side. Sailing ships and paddle steamers crowd the dark river below, with the bridge towers rising at left.

Look closer: Small rowers or boats are faintly visible among the ships near the lower right water.

Artist

Currier & Ives

Date

1883

Medium

Color lithograph

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1652 × 1340 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954