Bird's Nest and Ferns

Inscriptions

Inscription: signed, lower right: "F. Bridges / 1863" On back of frame: oval sticker: "Pollock's / Picture Store / 10 Hamilton Place / Boston"; sticker fragment upper right: "(?) by F. Bridges / Laura A. J (?)"; stock number on frame: "44401"; inscription in pencil upsidedown on top: "F. Beid???"; half artist's supply mark stencil in red: "H. H(?) / Manuf (?) / Phila (?) / 10 (?)"

Exhibition history

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Still Life Painting in Pennsylvania, May 29–July 31, 1988.

Publications

Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), 40–59, fig. 4.

Quick Overview

Artist: Fidelia Bridges / American, 1834–1923
Date: 1863
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 20 × 16.8 cm (7 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: Realism
Place: United States
Department: Arts of the Americas
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by Charles C. Haffner III
Accession no.: 1987.169

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.