Wooded Upland Landscape with a Bridge

c. 1780

Thomas Gainsborough

Artist, British, 1727 - 1788

Thomas Gainsborough

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and white chalk with gray and black wash heightened with white on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 28.4 x 36.8 cm (11 3/16 x 14 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1982.82.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hayes 1970, no. 495

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Earl Spencer (Lugt Supp.2341a)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

1987

  • English Drawings and Watercolors, 1630-1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987-1988, no cat.

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

Bibliography

1970

  • Hayes, John. The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough. 2 vols. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970 and 1971.

1983

  • Hayes/Stainton 1983, 60.

Wikidata ID

Q64633211

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