Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Bridge near Rajmahal Bihar
Bequeathed by Mrs William Mansfield 1872
adults
architecture
boat - non-specific
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
group
groups
India
landscape
people
places
Rajmahal
river
society
transport: water
water: inland
woman
wooded
<p>This painting could be described as an exercise in an Indian ‘picturesque’. The Picturesque was an aesthetic ideal which stressed the visual pleasures of variety and decay.</p><p>Overgrown, partly ruined structures were a familiar feature of British landscape painting. Despite their costumes, the figures to the right were also familiar. Paintings of the British countryside would regularly incorporate such figures, suggesting that the landscape was a place of rest and solace rather than work or poverty. Here their costumes also subtly evoke antique togas, suggesting a further link with the classical landscapes of the seventeenth-century artist Claude Lorrain.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
17 March 2003 – 26 July 2004
2004-07-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-03-17
British Art and Asia
Collection based display
28 April 2006 – 7 August 2006
2006-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-04-28
British Art and India
Collection based display
29 July 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
6 August 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
2010-08-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-07-29
Romantics 2
Collection based display
11 September 2019 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
11 September 2019 – 16 February 2020
2020-02-16
2019-09-11
Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France)
29 February 2020 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
2020-02-29
External
2019-09-11
Gainsborough to Turner: The Golden Age of English Painting
Loan-out
Bridge near Rajmahal, Bihar
support: 978 × 1372 mm
frame: 1283 × 1670 × 195 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs William Mansfield 1872
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<span class="text15">This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> could be described as an</span><span class="text0"> exercise in an Indian ‘<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/picturesque" title="Glossary definition for 'Picturesque'"><span>picturesque</span></a>’. The </span><span class="text14">Picturesque was an aesthetic ideal which</span><span class="text0"> stressed the visual pleasures of variety </span><span class="text15">and decay.</span><span class="text0">
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<span class="text14">Overgrown, partly ruined structures were</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text15">a familiar feature of British      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a></span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text15">painting.      Despite their costumes, the figures to the right were also familiar.</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text15">Paintings of the British      countryside </span><span class="text0">would regularly incorporate such      figures, suggesting that the landscape was a place of rest and solace      rather than work </span><span class="text14">or poverty. Here their      costumes also subtly</span><span class="text0"> evoke antique togas,      suggesting a further link with the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/classicism" title="Glossary definition for 'Classicism'"><span>classical</span></a> landscapes of the </span><span class="text14">seventeenth-century artist Claude Lorrain.</span><span class="text0">
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adults architecture boat - non-specific bridge bridges and viaducts cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents group groups India landscape people places Rajmahal river society transport: water water: inland woman wooded