Landscape with Figures Crossing a Bridge

by John Rathbone

Inscriptions

Inscribed right, in brown paint: Rathbone / & / Morland (in trees)

Provenance

Walter T. Fisher, Winnetka, Illinois by 1962; given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.

Publications

John Maxon, "Recent Acquisitions," AIC Quarterly 57, 4 (1963/64), n. pag. Malcolm Warner, in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago, Princeton, NJ, 1996, pp. 274-275 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: John Rathbone (English, c. 1750–1807) / George Morland (English, 1763–1804)
Date: 1790–1800
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 30.2 × 41 cm (11 15/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Framed: 38.1 × 48.3 × 4.5 cm (15 × 19 × 1 3/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on panel
Style: 18th Century
Place: England
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Gift of Walter T. Fisher
Accession no.: 1962.967

More by John Rathbone in museum collections

Landscape with Fisherman and Washerwoman
John Rathbone
1790–1800 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00000682

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.