Oil paint on canvas
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Bridge
Bequeathed by Martin H. Colnaghi 1908
animals: mammals
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
building - non-specific
cow
gorge
Lake District
landscape
mountain
places
townscapes / man-made features
UK countries and regions
wooded
<p>Gainsborough never travelled to Italy, although he studied the work of old master painters such as Claude, Rubens and others. He continually fused references to the work of these earlier landscape artists with his own ideas and observations on nature, creating a highly individual vision of a British rural idyll.</p><p>This sombre scene may be a view in the Lake District, which Gainsborough had visited in 1783. However, his later landscapes were far from conventional representations of particular places. They became increasingly poetic in mood, often with a dramatic quality that anticipated the later landscapes of Constable and Turner.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
15 June 2002 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-06-15
Pastoral Landscape
Collection based display
27 September 2014 – 6 April 2015
2015-04-06
27 September 2014 – 6 April 2015
2015-04-06
2014-09-27
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-09-27
William Hazlitt
Collection based display
2 March 2018 – 27 May 2018
2018-05-27
2 March 2018 – 27 May 2018
2018-05-27
2018-03-02
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany)
http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
2018-03-02
Gainsborough. The landscape of the Modern World
Loan-out
7 October 2022 – 18 February 2024
2024-02-18
21 October 2023 – 18 February 2024
2024-02-18
2023-10-21
William Morris Gallery (London, UK)
2022-10-07
Radical Landscapes
Loan-out
The Bridge
support: 400 × 483 mm
frame: 622 × 705 × 95 mm
Bequeathed by Martin H. Colnaghi 1908
<p>
Gainsborough never travelled to Italy, although he studied the work of old master painters such as Claude, Rubens and others. He continually fused references to the work of these earlier <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> artists with his own ideas and observations on nature, creating a highly individual vision of a British rural idyll.</p>
<p>
This sombre scene may be a view in the Lake District, which Gainsborough had visited in 1783. However, his later landscapes were far from conventional representations of particular places. They became increasingly poetic in mood, often with a dramatic quality that anticipated the later landscapes of Constable and Turner.</p>
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animals: mammals architecture bridge bridges and viaducts building - non-specific cow gorge Lake District landscape mountain places townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions wooded