About this artwork
This is one of Fred Bremner’s best known images, showing the bridge named after the Duchess of Connaught who opened it in 1887. An impressive feat of engineering, Bremner described it as: "the most interesting view on the Sind-Pishin Railway … the whole scene being rugged in the extreme, and conveying to passengers an impression of great danger". By including figures in the foreground of the image Bremner gives a sense of the immense scale. The nineteenth century saw British Imperial expansion and photographers were perfectly placed to document this process. Bremner produced several photographs, often as commissions, which captured the Indian subcontinent as it was changing. Today, the bridge no longer exists, the railway line having been closed in 1942.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Fred Bremner (1863 - 1941) Scottish
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title:Louise Marguerite Bridge, Chappar Rift, Khalifat Mountain, Baluchistan
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date created:About 1889
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:20.00 x 26.10 cm
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credit line:Presented by Patrick Cave Browne, 1985
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accession number:PGP 116.11
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Fred Bremner
Fred Bremner
Fred Bremner, the son of a professional photographer in Banff, travelled to India in 1882 and worked there for nearly forty years. He moved all the time, covering vast distances to photograph colonial officers and their families as well as members of the native aristocracy. Bremner was fascinated...