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Bridge Over Rice Lake

photograph of a watercolour painting showing roofs of houses in the foreground, hills in the distance and cam water in between. In the middle distance a long bridge is being crossed by a steam engine with an indeterminate number of cars. Nearer by is a barge

Bridge Over Rice Lake,  Fred J. Rowan

Courtesy and Copyright: Royal Ontario Museum, University of Toronto

 

This photograph is of a watercolour over pencil painting of the Rice Lake bridge viewed from the south shore of the Lake, west of Harwood.  The train can be seen approaching Tic Island from the Harwood shore.  To the right of the island is the trestle bridge and to the left is the truss bridge, with the trestle once again to the extreme left.

Due to ice damage, the bridge was declared unsafe in 1861 and was abandoned.

The original painting is oval and measures 5 1/2″ by 8 1/8″