Wooded Landscape with a Man Crossing a Bridge

early 1780s

Dating: Within this decade
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black and white chalk, brush and gray ink, gray wash and with body color on tan paper
Dimensions: 10 7/8 x 14 1/2 in. (27.6 x 36.8 cm)
Collection no.: 1975.1.882
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Thomas Gainsborough. Wooded Landscape with a Man Crossing a Bridge. Thomas Gainsborough; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Wooded Landscape with a Man Crossing a Bridge — Thomas Gainsborough. early 1780s.

Medium: Black and white chalk, brush and gray ink, gray wash and with body color on tan paper. Dimensions: 10 7/8 x 14 1/2 in. (27.6 x 36.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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