The Bridge (M. C. Escher)

The Bridge

Artist	M. C. Escher
Year	1930
Type	Lithograph
Dimensions	53.6 cm × 37.7 cm (21.1 in × 14.8 in)

The Bridge is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in March 1930.

It depicts a bridge connecting two sheer cliffs. On the top of the left hand cliff is a city. The chasm between the two cliffs is narrow but plummets out of view. In the distance is another outcrop with a city built on top. Both the rock and the architecture on this third outcrop are darker in colouration than in the foreground. The buildings appear to be modelled partly after southern Italian architecture. The rock is in blocky formations that appeared often during Escher's Italian period and it is possible that the village seen is Assisi.

Sources

Locher, J.L. (2000). The Magic of M. C. Escher. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-6720-0.

M. C. Escher

Works

1910s	Escher's Father Bookplate Bastiaan Kist Chrysanthemum Head of a child Skull Railway Bridge, Oosterbeek Mascot Portrait of a Man (I) Self-Portrait (I) Baby Young Thrush Bookplate M. C. Escher Self-Portrait (II) Jug The Rag Pickers Fiet van Stolk Waves Self-Portrait (III) White Cat (I) The Borger Oak Portrait Seated Man with cat on his lap Tree Self-Portrait (IV) Parrot White Cat (II) Sea-shell
1920s	Self Portrait in a Chair Rabbits Female Nude in a Landscape Wild West The Fall of Men Escher's Father with Magnifying Glass Portrait of a Man (II) Man Standing Seated Old Woman Flower Seated Female Nude (I) Seated Female Nude (II) Seated Female Nude (III) Roosje Ingen Housz Poster Plane-filling Motif with Human Figures Paradise Seated Female Nude (IV) Seated Female Nude (V) Hand with Fir Cone St Francis Eight Heads Eagle, vignette Dolphins San Gimignano Self-Portrait (V) Portrait of Jetta Vitorchiano nel Cimino The First Day of the Creation The Sixth Day of Creation The Fall of Man Procession in Crypt Rome Castle in the Air Tower of Babel Fara San Martino, Abruzzi Corte, Corsica The Drowned Cathedral Infant Arthur Escher Self-Portrait (VI) Barbarano, Cimino
1930s	Street in Scanno, Abruzzi Castrovalva The Bridge Fiumara, Calabria Tropea, Calabria Cloister near Rocca Imperiale, Calabria Atrani, Coast of Amalfi Covered Alley in Atrani Ravello and the Coast of Amalfi Coast of Amalfi Farmhouse, Ravello San Cosimo, Ravello Turello, Southern Italy Porta Maria dell'Ospidale, Ravello Lion of the Fountain in the Piazza at Ravello San Michele dei Frisone, Rome Mumified Priests in Gangi, Sicily Temple of Segeste, Sicily Cave Dwellings (near Sperlinga) Sicily Palm Caltavuturo in the Madonie Mountains Sicily Cloister of Monreale Sicily Lava Flow of 1928 from Etna Sicily Pineta of Calvi, Corsica Phosphorescent Sea Fireworks Old Olive Tree, Corsica Nonza, Corsica Still Life with Mirror Nocturnal Rome: Colonade of St Peter's Nocturnal Rome: Santa Maria del Popolo Nocturnal Rome: Trajan's Column Nocturnal Rome: Basilica of Constantine Nocturnal Rome: Castel Sant' Angelo Nocturnal Rome: Colosseum Aeroplane above Snowy Landscape Still Life with Spherical Mirror Hand with Reflecting Sphere Regular Division of the Plane Inside St Peter's Portrait of G.A. Escher Sengela, Malta Hell, copy after Hieronymus Bosch Snow Prickly Flower House in the Lava near Nunziata, Sicily Still Life and Street Metamorphosis I Development I Day and Night Cycle Sky and Water I Sky and Water II Entrance to the Oude Kerk, Delft Development II (I) Development II (II) Oostpoort, Delft Nieuwe Kerk, Delft Town Hall, Delft Voldersgracht, Delft
1940s	Metamorphosis II Bookplate Dr. P.H.M. Travaglino Horse (No. 8) Sea Horse (No. 11) Lizard (No. 15) Eagle (No. 17) Two Birds (No. 18) Fish (No. 20) Clowns (No. 21) Bird / Fish (No. 22) Lizard (No. 25) Three Birds (No. 28) Fish Plane-filling Motif with Reptiles Bird / Fish (No. 34) Bird / Fish (No. 34B) Dragonfly (No. 38) Crab (No. 40) Two Fish (No. 41) Shells and Starfish (No. 42) Bird (No. 44) Angel-Devil (No. 45) Verbum Two Fish (No. 46) Frog (No. 51) Fish (No. 55) Lizard (No. 56) Two Fish (No. 57) Two Fish (No. 58) Two Fish (No. 59) Two Lizards (No. 60) Reptiles Ant Blowball (I) Blowball (II) Encounter Two Creatures (No. 61) Devil (No. 62) Pessimist-Optimist (No. 63) Balcony Doric Columns Three Spheres I Diploma Tijdelijke Academie, Eindhoven Winged Lion (No. 66) Magic Mirror Three Spheres II Horseman Mumified Frog Eye New Year's greeting-card Gallery Horseman (No. 67) Another World Up and Down Drawing Hands Dewdrop Sun and Moon Study for Stars Stars Fish / Duck / Lizard (No. 69) Butterfly (No. 70) Fish / Boat (No. 72) New Year's greeting card Plane-filling Motif with Birds Regular Division of the Plane with Birds Sea-shells Fish and Frogs Double Planetoid Flying Fish (No. 73) Horse / Bird (No. 76)
1950s	Order and Chaos Rippled Surface Devils (vignette) Unicorn (No. 78) Flying Fish / Bird (No. 80) Predestination Plane Filling I Curl-up House of Stairs Bird / Fish (No. 82) Thirty-Six Different Motifs (No. 83) Bird / Fish (No. 8) Two Intersecting Planes Puddle Gravitation Lizard / Fish / Bat (No. 85) Two Birds (No. 87) Sea Horse (No. 88) Concentric Rinds Relativity Spirals Beetle (No. 91) Bookplate A.R.A. Wertheim Tetrahedral Planetoide Fish (No. 93) Convex and Concave Liberation Rind Depth Three Worlds Fish (No. 94) Swan (No. 96) Swans Bond of Union Print Gallery Division Smaller and Smaller Lizards (No. 101) Cube with Magic Ribbons Plane Filling II Whirlpools Belvedere Sphere Surface with Fish Sphere Spirals Flatworms Circle Limit II Circle Limit III Lizard (No. 104) Pegasus (No. 105)
1960s	Ascending and Descending Circle Limit IV Fish (No. 107) Möbius Strip I Waterfall Creeping Creature (No. 109) Fish, Fish / Bird (No. 109 II) Bird / Fish (No. 110) Möbius Strip II Knots Lizard (No. 124) Path of Life III Fish / Bird (No. 126) Bird (No. 128) Metamorphosis III Snakes

Mathematics and art
Escher Museum
Escher in popular culture
Video games inspired by Escher
Adventures in Perception (1971 documentary)
Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979 book)

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