The Terrace Bridge spans the Lullwater wetland and Prospect Park Lake. It was designed by Calvert Vaux and built in 1890, replacing a previous wooden bridge. It is comprised of six steel arches, set in stone and brick. The bridge was Vaux's last contribution to the park. Olmsted and Vaux originally conceived this area of the park as a site of restaurants and open-air concerts, which did not come to pass. The day I drew this, there was a man who'd tucked himself away in the trees, playing a cello, which gave a sense of what Olmsted and Vaux might have imagined.
The yellow-green of the water is a spread of pond scum that appears every spring.
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