Bridge that uses timber or wood as its principal structural material

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Bocanema, Colombia: a waterfall. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.

A young man offers his hand to help a young woman cross a bridge over a brook, but she turns back as the bridge is too narrow. Engraving by W. Angus, 1793, after T. Stothard.

Mariquita, Colombia: a wooden bridge. Coloured lithograph by C. Empson, 1836.

A Japanese man heavily laden with firewood crosses a wooden plank over a river, upstream a waterfall. Gouache painting.

Honda, Colombia: a wooden bridge over the river Gualí. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.

A road by a river outside a town: a distraught woman lying by the side of a road is recognized by a man who grasps her by the wrist. Engraving by W. Woollett.

The wooded banks of a river in the Roman Campagna: two men and three women are shown in the foreground, while three fishermen are fishing with a net from a boat. Etching by F. Vivares, 1741, after Claude Lorraine.

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Wooden bridges

Images from the collections

Images referencing Wooden bridges

Works from the collections

Bocanema, Colombia: a waterfall. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.

A road by a river outside a town: a distraught woman lying by the side of a road is recognized by a man who grasps her by the wrist. Engraving by W. Woollett.

A Japanese man heavily laden with firewood crosses a wooden plank over a river, upstream a waterfall. Gouache painting.

Mariquita, Colombia: a wooden bridge. Coloured lithograph by C. Empson, 1836.

The wooded banks of a river in the Roman Campagna: two men and three women are shown in the foreground, while three fishermen are fishing with a net from a boat. Etching by F. Vivares, 1741, after Claude Lorraine.

Wooden bridges

Images from the collections

Images referencing Wooden bridges

Works from the collections

Bocanema, Colombia: a waterfall. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.

A road by a river outside a town: a distraught woman lying by the side of a road is recognized by a man who grasps her by the wrist. Engraving by W. Woollett.

A Japanese man heavily laden with firewood crosses a wooden plank over a river, upstream a waterfall. Gouache painting.

Mariquita, Colombia: a wooden bridge. Coloured lithograph by C. Empson, 1836.

The wooded banks of a river in the Roman Campagna: two men and three women are shown in the foreground, while three fishermen are fishing with a net from a boat. Etching by F. Vivares, 1741, after Claude Lorraine.

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