title: Crowned Buddha on a Multi-Headed Serpent (Naga)

creator: Thailand or Cambodia

date: Angkor period, 12th–13th century or later

country: Southeast Asia

subjects:
Bronze
Southeast asia
Southeast asian
Angkorean
Cambodian
Asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: The Old Bedford (recto); The Gallery of the Old Bedford (verso)

creator: Walter Richard Sickert

medium: Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash (recto and verso) on board

country: United Kingdom

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
United kingdom
Black ink
Colored ink
Ink
Coating (material)
Gray wash
Wash
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

source: Art Institute of Chicago

source_id: aic

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — CC0 via the Art Institute of Chicago Open Access programme.

credit_line: The Regenstein Collection


title: Bottle with Garlic-shaped Mouth

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736–1795)

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects:
Vase
China
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Ceramic
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Milk Jug

creator: England, Staffordshire

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware), gilded

country: Staffordshire

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Creamware
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leslie Bezark


title: Panel

creator: Italy, probably Piemonte

medium: Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Fruit
Silk (textile)
Satin damask weaving
Weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. David C. Hilliard, Elizabeth H. Malott, and the Textile Society


title: Group at Head Quarters

creator: Roger Fenton

medium: Salted paper print, plate 1 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea," 1856

country: England

subjects:
Salted paper print
England
Collected by hugh edward
Crimea 1856
Paper (fiber product)
Photographic process
Photography
Photograph

credit_line: Hugh Edwards Photography and Media Purchase Fund


title: The French Redoubt at Inkermann

medium: Salted paper print, plate 3 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Group of Croat Chiefs

medium: Salted paper print, plate 2 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: The Old Post Office, Balaklava

medium: Salted paper print, plate 6 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Artillery Waggons, Balaklava in the Distance

medium: Salted paper print, plate 4 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: The Valley of the Shadow of Death

medium: Salted paper print, plate 8 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)

subjects:
Salted paper print
England
Collected by hugh edward
Crimea 1856
Documentary
Paper (fiber product)
Photographic process
Photography
Photograph


title: A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery

medium: Salted paper print, plate 7 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Major Gen'l Charles Ashe Windham

medium: Salted paper print, plate 10 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: The Sanitary Commission

medium: Salted paper print, plate 9 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Lieutenant General Sir de Lacy Evans, G.C.B.

medium: Salted paper print, plate 11 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: The Tombs of the Generals on Cathcart's Hill

medium: Salted paper print, plate 13 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: The Genoese Castle, Balaklava

medium: Salted paper print, plate 12 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Balaklava, from Guard's Hill

medium: Salted paper print, plate 15 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Camp of the 5th Dragoon Guards

medium: Salted paper print, plate 14 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Officers of the 42nd Highlanders

medium: Salted paper print, plate 17 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Officers of the 71st Highlanders

medium: Salted paper print, plate 16 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Men of the 77th ready for the Trenches

medium: Salted paper print, plate 18 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Zouaves

medium: Salted paper print, plate 21 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Marshal Pélissier

medium: Salted paper print, plate 19 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: The British Head Quarters

medium: Salted paper print, plate 23 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: L'Entente Cordiale

medium: Salted paper print, plate 22 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: The Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava

medium: Salted paper print, plate 25 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: The Russian Church & Town of Balaklava

medium: Salted paper print, plate 24 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Camp of the 4th Dragoon Guards, convivial party, French & English

medium: Salted paper print, plate 26 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Lieutenant General Sir George Brown, G.C.B.

medium: Salted paper print, plate 29 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Untitled

medium: Salted paper print, plate 28 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Zouaves

medium: Salted paper print, plate 32 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Untitled

medium: Salted paper print, plate 30 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Lieutenant General Sir Richard England, K.C.B.

medium: Salted paper print, plate 34 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Untitled

medium: Salted paper print, plate 33 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Lieutenant General Sir H.J.W. Bentinck, K.C.B.

medium: Salted paper print, plate 35 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Major General Estcourt and Staff

medium: Salted paper print, plate 37 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Lieutenant General Sir W.J. Codrington, K.C.B.

medium: Salted paper print, plate 36 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: General Sir J. Burgoyne, Bart. G.C.B.

medium: Salted paper print, plate 38 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Untitled (Admiral Frederick Augustus Maxse)

medium: Salted paper print, plate 39 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Lieutenant General Sir Harry Jones, K.C.B.

medium: Salted paper print, plate 42 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Hardships in the Camp

medium: Salted paper print, plate 40 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Quartermaster Hill, 4th Lt. Dragoons. The Horse taken immediately after the winter season.

medium: Salted paper print, plate 44 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: General Bosquet

medium: Salted paper print, plate 43 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Lieutenant General Sir J.L. Pennefather, K.C.B.

medium: Salted paper print, plate 45 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Lieutenant Colonel Shadforth and Officers of the 57th

medium: Salted paper print, plate 47 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Major General Garrett and Officers of the 46th

medium: Salted paper print, plate 46 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Field Marshall Lord Raglan

medium: Salted paper print, plate 49 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: General Simpson

medium: Salted paper print, plate 48 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Cooking House of the 8th Hussars

medium: Salted paper print, plate 51 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Untitled

medium: Salted paper print, plate 50 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Ismail Pacha and Attendants

medium: Salted paper print, plate 52 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Officers on the Staff of Lieutenant General Sir Richard England

medium: Salted paper print, plate 53 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Captain Walker, 30th Regiment, reading General Orders

medium: Salted paper print, plate 54 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)


title: Jupiter and Callisto

creator: Domenico Vito (Italian, active 1576-1586)

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Engraving
Italy
Wood engraving (process)
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Endowment


title: Father and Son

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph in black on cream wove proofing paper

country: United States

subjects:
Transfer lithograph
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Lithograph
Print
Print and drawing
Paper
Ink
Wove paper

credit_line: Gift of the Crown Family in honor of James N. Wood


title: Panel from a Jacket

creator: Germany, Dresden

medium: Cotton, plain weave; pulled thread work embroidered with linen in double, double hem, hem, interlocking lace, and square openwork stitches; embroidered with linen in overcast and satin stitches; partially backed with cotton, plain weave; cotton batting; quilted with linen threads

country: Germany

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Germany
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Elizabeth M. Schultz and Dr. and Mrs. Magnus P. Urnes endowments


title: The Agony of Flowers

creator: Theodore Roussel

medium: Soft ground etching and aquatint on cream wove paper

country: France

subjects:
Etching
France
Flowers
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowment


title: Saint Anne Received in Heaven by Christ and the Virgin

creator: Luca Giordano

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Etching
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Anne Searle Bent


title: Meet Me by the Linden Tree

creator: Pendleton's Lithography (American, active 19th century)

medium: Lithograph on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
United state
Trees
Lithography
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing


title: Le Triomphe de Voltaire

creator: A. Duplessis

subjects:
Etching
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Landscape with Travelers

creator: Valerio Spada (Italian, 1613-1688)

date: early 1630s

medium: Pen and brown ink on vellum

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Landscapes
Romani
People
Print and drawing
Brown ink
Colored ink
Ink
Coating (material)
Drawing (visual works)


title: Saint Francis of Assisi Adoring the Virgin and Child

creator: Denys Calvaert

medium: Black chalk on blue laid paper

country: Flanders

subjects:
Chalk
Flander
Virgin and child/madonna and child
Christian subject
Mythology
Print and drawing
Diamond shape
Saint
Paper (fiber product)
Black chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)


title: Allegory

creator: Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

medium: Oil, with touches of black chalk, on tan laid paper, tipped on beige wove paper

subjects:
Mythology
Oil on paper
France
Women
People
Print and drawing
Putti
Triangle
Paper (fiber product)
Organic material
Drawing (visual works)


title: The Swallows

creator: Félix Henri Bracquemond

medium: Pen and brush and black ink, with black chalk and graphite and touches of black Conté crayon, on tan wove paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
France
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Marjorie Hubachek Watkins Fund in honor of her parents


title: Arch of Constantine with Statue of Nero

creator: Hubert Robert

medium: Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, with watercolor, on ivory oval-shaped laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
France
Paper (fiber product)
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Coating (material)
Black ink
Colored ink
Ink
Gray wash
Wash
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Blanket

creator: United States, Southwest

medium: Wool, double faced complementary weft broken twill weave; warp fringe

country: Southwest

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Southwest
Twill weaving
Wool (textile)
Weaving

credit_line: Royalties from The Warner Fund


title: Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Rome

creator: Clemens von Zimmermann

medium: Etching on cream wove paper

subjects:
Etching
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing


title: Wanderer Resting in the Forest

creator: Martin von Molitor

country: Austria

subjects:
Etching
Austria
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Landscape with Waterfall

creator: Pendleton's Lithography

medium: Lithograph on cream wove paper, laid down

subjects:
Lithograph
United state
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Farmer and His Cart

creator: Johann Adam Klein

medium: Etching in black on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Etching
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Entrance to the Narrow Pass

creator: Jacob Wilhelm Mechau

medium: Etching and aquatint in sanguine on ivory wove paper


title: Tranquil Peasant

creator: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

medium: Etching on ivory wove paper


title: Gilbert Mottier Lafayette..., from the series Tableaux historiques de la révolution française

creator: Charles François Gabriel Levachez, and Son (French, 18th and 19th century)

medium: Aquatint and etching, with engraving, in black on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Etching
France
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing


title: Chef-de-piece (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: Design in the Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Block printing
Chinoiserie
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Nine Songs

creator: Zhao Mengfu

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Album of eleven leaves; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights_statement: Public Domain — released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) via The Met Open Access.

credit_line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Fletcher Fund, 1973


title: Bronze pin

date: ca. 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Bronze
Greek or roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Bassett Hound, from the Dogs of the World series for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 22 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Coaching Horn, from the Musical Instruments series (N82) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)

creator: Kaikei

date: early 13th century

medium: Japanese cypress with lacquer, color, gold, cut gold leaf (kirikane), and inlaid crystal eyes

country: Japan

subjects:
Sculpture
Japan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015


title: Folding Chair

date: 16th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Furniture China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Biddle, 1973


title: Agate Lentoid

medium: Agate

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Young Man on a Riverbank (recto); Study of a Wagnerian Scene (verso)

creator: Umberto Boccioni

medium: Gouache, charcoal, and pastel on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989


title: Saint John the Baptist

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Limewood with paint and gilding

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Bronze dagger

subjects: Bronze Minoan


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Fringe

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Priest's Robe and Stole

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: By exchange, 1954


title: A Short History of General Leonidas Polk, from the Histories of Generals series (N114) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco


title: Small Pig Herd

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara

date: 14th century

medium: Stone with polychrome

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Razor

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Eleusis Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Snuffbox

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gold

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Travellers and wagons fording a river in a Southern landscape

creator: Hendrick Verschuring

medium: Brush and gray ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2008


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Bronze statuette of Tyche/Fortuna

date: ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Bearded man shown in half-length with bundle slung over right shoulderblade, flanked by a woman shown in half-length and a man wearing a tall hat in lower left corner

creator: Karel Dujardin

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Plate 2 from "La Tauromaquia": Another way of hunting on foot

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Young Lady's Reply to the Captain's Letter

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Stirrup-spout bottle with bean warriors

creator: Moche artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: Effigy vessel

creator: Huastec artist(s)

country: Huastec

subjects:
Huastec
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1965


title: Sutra Cover

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Writing table (bureau plat)

creator: Bernard II van Risenburgh

medium: Veneered on oak with ebony;  mounts of chased and gilded bronze; top inlaid with later panels of black morocco and gilt-tooled leather

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Harness Ornament with Raptors and Carnivores

date: late 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Silver with gilded details

country: Bulgaria

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Bulgaria

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, 2002


title: Ein ney Furmbüchlein, Page 5, verso

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Limestone head of a beardless male with a wreath of flower buds

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot
Flowers

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Robe

medium: silk

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Gertrude Wright Gallary, 1976


title: Dagger with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, horn, peal

country: Bornean

subjects: Dagger Bornean

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Cushion Cover

creator: Manchu

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered in knot, satin, and stem stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Chinese (culture or style)
East asian
Asian
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Gaylord Donnelley in memory of Miss Naomi Donnelley


title: The Weight Lifter

creator: Attributed to Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Watercolor, with brush and brown ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper

country: France

subjects:
Watercolor
France
Paper (fiber product)
Water-base paint
Paint
Graphite
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Horse-Headed Incarnation of God Vishnu (Vajimukha)

creator: Thailand or Cambodia

date: Pre–Angkor period, 7th–8th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Southeast Asia

subjects:
Sandstone
Southeast asia
Southeast asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Landscape with a Walker and a Cascade, plate 5 from the second suite Livre de paysages (Book of Landscapes)

creator: Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel

medium: Etching in black on off-white laid paper

subjects:
Etching
France
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Merchant Ships

creator: Reinier Zeeman (Reinier Nooms)

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Etching
Netherland
Ships & the sea
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections


title: The Three Judges

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Watercolor and brush and black gouache, with charcoal, heightened with gray gouache, over touches of graphite, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Watercolor
France
Water-base paint
Gouache
Graphite
Charcoal
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper (fiber product)
Laid paper

credit_line: Helen Regenstein Collection


title: Shawl Fragment

creator: India

medium: Wool, double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weave; warp fringe

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Gulf near Naples

creator: Adrian Zingg (Swiss, 1734-1816)

country: Switzerland

subjects:
Etching
Switzerland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: La Vieille aux Loques (The Old Woman with Rags)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on cream Japanese paper

country: United States

subjects:
Etching
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Foul biting
Print
Print and drawing
Paper
Drypoint
Ink
Japanese paper

credit_line: The Art Institute of Chicago


title: Untitled

creator: Graham Vivian

medium: Albumen silver prints from wet collodion negatives and platinum prints

country: England

subjects:
Albumen silver print
England
Photographic process
Photography
Photograph

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Anstiss and Ronald Krueck, honoring Families and the albums they have made


title: Ehon fudetsu bana (0010-0012)

creator: Nishikawa Sukenobu (Japanese, 1671-1750)

medium: Woodblock printed books, three volumes

country: Japan

subjects:
Book
Japan
Asian art


title: Oh Peaceful Lake! Lines Written on the Lake of Windermere

creator: Pendleton's Lithography (American, active 19th century)

medium: Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, stitched to two additional sheets with music score

subjects:
Lithograph
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Onna man'yo keiko soshi

creator: Attributed to Nishikawa Sukenobu (Japanese, 1671-1750)

medium: Woodblock printed books, 3 volumes


title: Yamato shinoe zukushi

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694)

medium: Woodblock printed book


title: Ruins of the Palace of the Caesars in Rome, plate eight from Die Römische Ansichten

creator: Joseph Anton Koch

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Germany

subjects:
Etching
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Five Cigar Ribbons

creator: United States

medium: Silk, plain weave; printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Weaving - printed
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John and Christine Gates


title: Bridge of Salaro

creator: Jacob Wilhelm Mechau

medium: Etching on paper


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: China

medium: Silk, 7:1 satin damask weave; inscription embroidered with cotton in back and straight stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Louise Lutz Endowment


title: Panel

creator: England, Spitalfields

medium: Silk, 4:1 damask weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Damask
Silk (textile)
"bizarre" style
Weaving

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Ehon ike no kokoro (pair has old stickers #707)

medium: Woodblock printed book, two volumes

subjects:
Book
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Japanism
East asian
Asian
Asian art


title: Yokei Tsukuri Niwa no Zu

medium: Woodblock printed book, single volume


title: Untitled

creator: O. H. Willard

medium: Salted paper print

subjects:
Salted paper print
United state
Portrait
Portraits: male subject
Photography
Paper (fiber product)
Photographic process
Photograph

credit_line: Photography Associates Fund


title: Pair of Lappets (Joined)

creator: France, Bayeux

medium: Silk, bobbin straight lace

country: Bayeux

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessory
Bayeux
Lace - bobbin
Silk (fiber)
Textile
Costume
Costume accessory - headdress
Costume accessory worn above the waist

credit_line: Gift of Virginia Paul Black


title: View of the Ponte Rotto, Rome, with Watermills

creator: Jan Asselijn

date: late 1630s

medium: Watercolor, over graphite, on cream laid paper

subjects:
Wash
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Celia and David Hilliard


title: Fragment

creator: Italy

medium: Silk and gilt-metal strips, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary facing wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund


title: Poet

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

date: May 20, 1775 (originally published); published 1809

medium: Etching on cream wove paper

subjects:
Etching
England
Chrysanthemum
Literature
Print and drawing
Paper (fiber product)
Print

credit_line: Mary S. Adams Endowment


title: Band

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in chain and cross stitches; backed with silk, weft-float faced 4:1 satin weave; bow of silk, weft-float faced 4:1 satin weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Textiles Collection


title: Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man)

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Woodcut
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Harold Joachim Endowment


title: Sunrise—The Pond, East Hampton

creator: Thomas Moran

medium: Etching on cream laid paper

subjects:
Etching
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Renshaw


title: Border

creator: Egypt, Akhmin

date: Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE), 5th/6th century

medium: Linen and wool, slit tapestry weave

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Roman period (egyptian)
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society


title: Triptych of Calligraphy

creator: Katsuzen Dowa 喝禪道和 (Ch: Hechan Daohe)

date: Late 17th– early 18th century

medium: Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Paper (fiber product)
Japanism
East asian
Asian
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: restricted Gift of  Muriel Kallis Newman


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt

date: Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE)/Arab period (641–969), 6th/7th century

medium: Linen and wool, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Fragment (Border)

date: Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE)/ Arab period (641–969), 7th/8th century


title: Triptych of Calligraphy

credit_line: restricted Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman


title: Landscape with the Sacrifice of Isaac within a Decorative Border of Plants and Animals

creator: Hans Bol

medium: Pen and brown ink and brown and gray washes on ivory laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer

subjects:
Botany
Ornament & design
Pen and ink drawing
Netherland
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Dorothy Harza in memory of Laura Harza


title: Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy, plate 8 from Parnassus Biceps

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry (German, 1561-1623)

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

country: Frankfurt an der Oder

subjects:
Engraving
Frankfurt an der oder
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections


title: Parnassus, plate 4 from Parnassus Biceps

creator: Robert Boissard (French, c. 1570–after 1597)


title: Thalia, Muse of Comedy, plate 14 from Parnassus Biceps


title: Various Subjects of Landscape Characteristic of English Landscape Scenery

creator: David Lucas (English, 1802-1881)

medium: Portfolio cover

subjects:
Portfolio cover
England
Landscapes
Portfolio
Print and drawing
Print

credit_line: George B. and Mary A. Young Fund; Mary S. Adams and Mary A. Young, Joseph Brooks Fair, Stanley Field, Hannan, Everett D. Graff, and Henry Huxley Endowments


title: Reel

creator: Europe or United States

medium: Wood with metal vise

country: Europe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Europe
Weaving
Textile working equipment

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William F. Petersen


title: The Sphynx and the Great Pyramid, Geezeh

creator: Francis Frith

medium: Albumen print, pl. 2 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)

subjects:
Photograph
England
Collected by hugh edward
Egypt and palestine
Albumen silver print
Photography

credit_line: Photography Gallery Fund


title: The Pool of Hezekiah, from the Tower of Hippicus, Jerusalum

medium: Albumen print, pl. 4 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Koum Ombo, Upper Egypt

medium: Albumen print, pl. 3 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: The New English Church from the Tower of Hippicus, Jerusalem

medium: Albumen print, pl. 6 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Cleopatra's Temple at Erment, near Thebes

medium: Albumen print, pl. 5 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)

subjects:
Architecture
Photograph
England
Collected by hugh edward
Egypt and palestine
Albumen silver print
Photography


title: View at Luxor

medium: Albumen print, pl. 8 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Nazareth, From the North-West

medium: Albumen print, pl. 7 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Sculptures from the Outer Wall, Dendera

medium: Albumen print, pl. 10 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)

subjects:
Albumen silver print
England
Collected by hugh edward
Egypt and palestine
Photographic process
Photography
Photograph


title: Bethlehem, with the Church of the Nativity

medium: Albumen print, pl. 9 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: View from Philae, Looking North

medium: Albumen print, pl. 11 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Nablous, The Ancient Shechem

creator: Francis Frith English, 1822–1898

medium: Albumen print, pl. 13 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Entrance to the Great Temple, Luxor

creator: Francis Frith (English, 1822–1898)

medium: Albumen print, plate 12 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I," (1858)

subjects:
Architecture
Photograph
Egypt
Collected by hugh edward
Egypt and palestine
Albumen silver print
Photography


title: Abou Simbel, Nubia

medium: Albumen print, pl. 15 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Colossi and Sphynx at Wady Saboua, Nubia

medium: Albumen print, pl. 14 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Osiride Pillars and Great Fallen Colossus, at the Memnonium, Thebes

medium: Albumen print, pl. 17 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Baalbec, from the South

medium: Albumen print, pl. 16 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Pharoahs Bed, Island of Philæ

medium: Albumen print, pl. 19 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)

subjects:
Photograph
Egypt
Collected by hugh edward
Egypt and palestine
Albumen silver print
Photography


title: View at Hebron

medium: Albumen print, pl. 18 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: The Town and Lake of Tiberias, from the North

medium: Albumen print, pl. 20 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Hall of Columns, Karnac

medium: Albumen print, pl. 21 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: The Great Pillars at Baalbec

medium: Albumen print, pl. 23 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Sculptured Gateway, Karnac

medium: Albumen print, pl. 25 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Ruined Mosque Near Philæ

medium: Albumen print, pl. 24 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Obelisk and Granite Lotus Column, Karnac

medium: Albumen print, pl. 27 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: View at Girgeh, Upper Egypt

medium: Albumen print, pl. 26 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: The Statues of Memnon, Plain of Thebes

medium: Albumen print, from a two volume set


title: City Wall and Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem

medium: Albumen print, pl. 28 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: The Great Pillars and Smaller Temple, Baalbec

medium: Albumen print, pl. 30 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Portion of the Great Temple (The Government Stores), Luxor

medium: Albumen print, pl. 31 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Jerusalem from the Wall of En-Rogel

medium: Albumen print, pl. 33 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Antiquities at Biggeh, Opposite Philæ

medium: Albumen print, pl. 32 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: The Memnonium, Thebes, from the Plain

medium: Albumen print, pl. 35 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Interior Court of Medinet Habbo, Thebes

medium: Albumen print, pl. 34 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Jerusalem from the City Wall

medium: Albumen print, pl. 36 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: The North Shore of the Dead Sea

medium: Albumen print, pl. 37 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)


title: Sorrow and Pain Punishing Psyche

creator: Master of the Die (Italian, active c. 1530-1560)

medium: Engraving in warm brown ink on cream laid paper

subjects:
Engraving
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Stanley Field, Everett D. Graff, and John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowments


title: Men Hunting Ibexes with Hounds

creator: Johannes Stradanus, called Giovanni Stradano

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on pieced cream laid paper, incised for transfer, laid down on cream laid paper

country: Flanders

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Celia and David Hilliard in honor of Dorothy Braude Edinburg


title: Psyche Going to Seek the Golden Wool


title: Venus Ordering Psyche to Sort a Heap of Grain


title: The Grotto of Egeria, Rome

creator: Robert MacPherson

medium: Albumen print

country: Scotland

subjects:
Albumen silver print
Scotland
Photographic process
Photography
Photograph

credit_line: The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund


title: Bag

creator: France

medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk laid over padding and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and silk floss in chain stitch; gussets: silk, plain weave; ribbon: silk, plain weave; lining: linen, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fashion
Bag - needlework
Costume accessory - bag
Costume accessory
Silk (fiber)
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Bag

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk laid over padding, silk-wrapped metal purl, and gilt-metal purl in bullion; gusset: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; lining: silk, plain weave; interlining: linen, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Bag - needlework
Costume accessory - bag
Costume accessory
Silk (fiber)
Costume


title: Bag

medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk laid over padding and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in chain stitch; gussets: silk, plain weave; lining: silk, plain weave


title: A Shipwreck

creator: Charles Turner (English, 1773-1857)

medium: Mezzotint on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Mezzotint
England
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Sara R. Shorey Endowment


title: A Candidate. “Who do you want?... An upright, conscientious, sober man, an industrialist, a man who doesn't need the government to enrich himself, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, through practice, very long practice... a long practice of law... you can't choose any better than... my honorable friend,” plate 48 from Caricaturana

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879)

medium: Hand-colored lithograph in black, heightened with gum arabic on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Francey and Martin Gecht Fund


title: Louis Seize

creator: Johann Gotthard von Müller (German, 1747-1830)

medium: Engraving, with etching, in black on paper

subjects:
Engraving
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection


title: Protection Against Cold

creator: Johann Eleazar Schenau

medium: Etching on cream laid paper

subjects:
Etching
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Fragments from a Bedcover made of Petticoat Borders

date: Late 18th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with wool threads in chain stitch; quilted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Catherine Quigley Hill


title: Fragment from a Mosaic or Honeycomb Quilt

creator: United States

medium: Silk and cotton, plain, twill, and satin weaves, some with patterning warps, some with patterning or brocading wefts, some self-patterned, and some with cut solid velvet; some warp painted (chiné); pieced over paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Needlework - quilt
Silk (fiber)
Bedcover

credit_line: Gift of Amy G. Baldwin


title: Fragment (from a border)

medium: Silk, machine-made twist net; embroidered with straw in fishbone and running stitches; knotting and wrapping

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Carpenter in memory of Lucy Keep Isham


title: Lappet

creator: Belgium, Flanders, Mechlin

medium: Linen, bobbin straight lace

country: Belgium

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessory
Belgium
Linen (material)
Lace making
Lace - bobbin
Lace
Textile
Costume
Costume accessory - headdress
Costume accessory worn above the waist

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, Mrs. Bertha Palmer Thorne, Mrs. Rose Movius Palmer, and Mrs. Gordon Palmer


title: Lappet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessory
Belgium
Lace making
Linen (material)
Lace - bobbin
Lace
Textile
Costume
Costume accessory - headdress
Costume accessory worn above the waist


title: Sleeve Pieces

medium: White taffeta with cut work pattern

country: France

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving


title: Ceremonial Shoulder Cloth

creator: Indonesia, Bali

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Silk, cotton, bast fiber, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-wrapped silk and gold-paper-wrapped bast fiber (probably ramie), bands of weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave and plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; attached fringe of silk and silver-paper-wrapped silk, and gold-paper-wrapped bast fiber (probably ramie), wrapped and knotted cut fringe

country: Bali

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Bali
Paper (fiber product)
Indonesian
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection


title: Right View of a Garden with Three Female Figures

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

date: 19th century

medium: Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Design for Book Illustration

creator: Franz Sigrist

date: late 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, white heightening on paper washed with pinkish gray.  Incised for transfer. Mounted on pink paper with pencil framing lines.

credit_line: Gift of James Clark McGuire, 1926


title: Tivoli

creator: William Stanley Haseltine

medium: Pen, black ink, washes, and graphite on beige paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Roger Plowden, 1967


title: Glass bowl

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Andre-Jacques-Victor Orsel

medium: Black chalk  with touches of white chalk on beige (formerly blue) laid paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Trencher with quotation from The Governance of Virtue (1566) (one of a set)

date: early 17th century

medium: Sycamore wood, painted and gilded

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Kiln Rod

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Gift of Noel E. Baker, 1952


title: Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Fan depicting Venus appearing to Adonis (?)

medium: Painted kid, carved and pierced ivory, metal foil, mother-of-pearl; glass

credit_line: The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Josephine and Sarah Lazarus, in memory of their father, 1888-95


title: Rowel Spur

date: first half 17th century

medium: Iron alloy, silver

country: British or German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
British or german

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: The Nuttall Collection, Gift of Mrs. Magdalena Nuttall, 1908


title: Mason's Template for the Battlement over a Cornice at Lyndhurst for George Merritt, Tarrytown, New York

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Female figure (Saint Catherine?) kneeling on the ground at center pleading to a male figure (Maximus?) who wears a crown and is seated on a throne at right; at left a figure with raised sword about to strike the woman; a group of figures looking on in the background

creator: Domenico Campagnola

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Roundel, boss

medium: Gold

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Inlay

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Collar of Mail

medium: Steel, copper alloy (latten), iron

country: German

subjects: Mail German

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Limestone lamp in the shape of a bull’s head

date: 30 BCE–CE 330

medium: Limestone

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone
Roman, cypriot


title: Design for Back of a Sedan Chair

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1967


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Men)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

medium: Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Walton Butterworth, 1979


title: Bronze statuette of a woman

date: mid-6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Gift of Jean-Louis Domercq, 1995


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Tufa Rocks, Pyramid Lake, Nevada

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005


title: Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, with the pike

creator: Simon de Passe

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: S. Carpophore et les 4 Saints Couronnés (St. Carpophorus and the 4 Crowned Saints), November 8th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Satire against the Terror

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Fille de Shanghai

creator: Raimund von Stillfried

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk

creator: Nina de Garis Davies

date: 1914; original ca. 1386–1347 BCE

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Bronze mace head

date: 8th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot


title: The Porthole / Sergeant and Private of the 42nd Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh Castle

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Square or pall

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena

creator: Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Lore Heinemann, in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1996


title: Bellerophon and Pegasus

creator: Bertel Thorvaldsen

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk or graphite

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2013


title: Christ Blessing the Children

creator: Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

medium: Oil on beech

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: The Bay of New York Looking to the Narrows and Staten Island, Taken from Brooklyn Heights

creator: William Guy Wall

medium: Watercolor and gum arabic on white wove paper

credit_line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Ceremonial Undergarment (Kamen)

creator: Javanese

medium: Cotton, plain weave; wax resist dyed (batik)

country: Java

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Java
Indonesian
Weaving - printed
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection


title: Ceremonial Shoulder Cloth (Kain songket lepus)

creator: Malay

medium: Two widths joined: silk and silvered-and gilt-metal threads wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts

country: Indonesia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Indonesia
Indonesian
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Ritual object


title: Madonna

creator: Edvard Munch

medium: Lithograph in black on green wove paper

country: Norway

subjects:
Print
Norway
Paper (fiber product)
Lithograph
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of the Gecht Family


title: Cushion

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644– 1911), late 19th century

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and self-patterning ground wefts

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Textiles Collection


title: Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking South

creator: William H. Bell

medium: Albumen print

country: United States

subjects:
Albumen print from collodion negative
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Photograph
Photography

credit_line: Photography Gallery Fund


title: Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking North


title: Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West


title: Grand Canon, Colorado River, Near Paria Creek, Looking West


title: Rain Sculpture, Salt Creek Cañon, Utah


title: Perched Rock, Rocker Creek, Arizona


title: Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking East


title: Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West


title: Looking South into the Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Sheavwitz Crossing


title: Limestone Walls Kanab Wash, Colorado River


title: Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Near Paria Creek, Looking East


title: Head of Cañon de Chelle, Looking Down. Walls about 1200 feet in height

creator: Timothy O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen print, No. 16 from the album "Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian," vol. 2


title: Iceberg Cañon, Colorado River, Looking Above

medium: Albumen print, No. 15 from the album "Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian," vol. 2


title: Cereus Giganteus, Arizona

medium: Albumen print, from the album "Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian," vol. 2


title: Water Rhyolites, Near Logan Springs, Nevada


title: The Church of San Miguel, the Oldest in Santa Fe, N.M.


title: Rock Carved by Drifting Sand, Below Fortification Rock, Arizona


title: Section of the South Side of Zuni Pueblo, N.M.


title: The South Side of Inscription Rock


title: Alpine Lake, in the Sierra Nevada, California


title: Indian Pueblo, Zuni, N.M. View from the South


title: Looking Across the Colorado River to the Mouth of Paria Creek


title: Old Mission Church, Zuni Pueblo, N.M. View from the Plaza


title: Cañon of the Colorado River, near Mouth of San Juan River, Arizona


title: Wall in the Grand Cañon, Colorado River


title: Entrance to Black Cañon, Colorado River


title: Black Cañon, looking above from Mirror Bar


title: Cañon de Chelle, Walls of the Grand Cañon, about 1200 feet in height


title: Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking South


title: Jupiter and Antiope

creator: René Boyvin (French, c. 1525-after 1580)

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper, edge-mounted to ivory laid paper

country: France

subjects:
Engraving
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Print

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Denuelle Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, dark blue ground, polychrome enamels, and gilding

country: Paris

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Pari
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Rudy C. Ruggles through the Antiquarian Society


title: Cup and Saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding


title: Decorated Initial "Q" with Three Balls and Six Leaves from a Choir Book

creator: European

date: 14th century or modern, c. 1920

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf on vellum

country: Europe

subjects:
Europe
Drawing (visual works)
Medieval
Manuscript
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson


title: Priest's Hat

creator: Japan

date: Late 19th century, Meiji period (1868–1912)

medium: Silk and gilt-paper strip; plain weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan
Japanism
Paper (fiber product)
Liturgical - buddhist
Weaving
Meiji
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays


title: View of Tivoli with the Bridge Over the Anio Waterfall

creator: Cornelis van Poelenburgh

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Drawing (visual works)
Brush and wash

credit_line: Helen Regenstein Endowment


title: Child's Collar

medium: Silk, satin weaves; embroidered with silk in satin, split, and stem stitches; laidwork and couching; edged with silk, satin weave; loops of silk, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Jeanette Delaney


title: The Committee, plate ten from Hudibras

creator: William Hogarth

date: February 1725/26

medium: Etching and engraving in black on cream paper edge, mounted on cream wove paper

country: England

subjects:
Engraving
England
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Print
Etching

credit_line: Sara R. Shorey Endowment; purchased with funds provided by Phyllis Neiman and the Woman's Board in honor of Phyllis Neiman


title: Panel

creator: North-Eastern India (modern Indian state of Assam)

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, double cloth

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of the James D. Tigerman Estate


title: View of the Winding Wall in the Villa Borghese

creator: Albert Christoph Dies

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Austria

subjects:
Etching
Austria
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Print

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Luna, plate seven from Der VII Planeten

creator: Conrad Meyer

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

country: Switzerland

subjects:
Etching
Switzerland
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Print

credit_line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections


title: Sol, plate four from Der VII Planeten


title: Mercurius, plate six from Der VII Planeten


title: Mars, plate three from Der VII Planeten


title: Jupiter, plate two from Der VII Planeten


title: Saturnus, plate one from Der VII Planeten

subjects:
Etching
Switzerland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Venus, plate five from Der VII Planeten


title: Lattice Work and Reflecting Pool at Arcueil

creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

medium: Charcoal with stumping, and with traces of erasing, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted to a cream wove card

subjects:
Charcoal
France
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Celia and David Hilliard


title: Seville

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Watercolor and gouache on paper, laid down on board

country: Sweden

subjects:
Sweden
Drawing (visual works)
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Brooks McCormick


title: Paperweight

creator: Baccarat Glassworks (Cristalleries de Baccarat)

medium: Glass

country: Baccarat

subjects: Paperweight Baccarat Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur Rubloff


title: Paperweight

date: 19th century

subjects: Paperweight France Glass


title: The Thames, or The Triumph of Navigation

creator: James Barry

date: 1791, published 1792

medium: Etching with engraving on cream laid paper

country: Ireland

subjects:
Etching
Ireland
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment


title: Paperweight


title: Handkerchief

creator: Italy

medium: Linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work; embroidered silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in cross, satin, buttonhole, overcast, detached overcast, and four-sided stitches; edged with applied silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk braid

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Embroidering
Linen (material)
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (textile)
Accessorie (object genre)

credit_line: Barbara Notz Hines Memorial Fund


title: The Bark

creator: Pierre Ozanne

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and white gouache, over black chalk, on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Paper

credit_line: Julius Lewis Endowment and Fund


title: Ravinia Music Pavilion

creator: Peter J. Weber

medium: Ink on linen

country: Ravinia

subjects:
Ink
Ravinia
Architectural drawing

credit_line: Gift of John B. Weber


title: Ravinia Refectory


title: A Midnight Modern Conversation

medium: Etching and engraving selectively printed in black and red on ivory laid paper

country: United Kingdom

subjects:
Print and drawing
United kingdom
Paper (fiber product)
Engraving
Etching
Print

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund


title: Devotion of Cimon or Funeral of Miltiade

creator: Jean François Pierre Peyron

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
France
Paper (fiber product)
Etching
Print

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. George B. Young


title: Winter Landscape with a Man Crossing

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Black chalk, over translucent and opaque watercolors, with touches of white chalk (recto) and pen and brown ink ledger (verso) on off-white laid paper, incised for transfer

subjects:
Charcoal
Netherland
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print and drawing


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Juste Chevillet (German, 1729-1790)

date: before 1780

country: Germany

subjects:
Engraving
Germany
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Thomas Baron


title: Panel (Probably used as a Pillow Cover)

medium: Linen, plain weave; cutwork; embroidered with silk floss in double running and wrapping stitches; linen picot loops

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (textile)
Embroidering

credit_line: Textile Purchase Account; Barbara Howard Estate


title: Decorated Initial with Grotesque in Profile from a Choir Book

creator: European

date: early 15th century

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera, with inscriptions in black and red inks, on vellum

subjects:
Europe
Drawing (visual works)
Medieval
Manuscript
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Rain Sculpture, Salt Creek Canon, Utah

creator: William H. Bell

medium: Albumen print, from the album "Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian," vol. 1

subjects:
Photograph
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Albumen silver print
Photography

credit_line: Photography Gallery Fund


title: Plate Five, from Marriage à la Mode

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet (French, 1706-1774)

medium: Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Etching
France
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Sara R. Shorey Endowed Acquisition Fund; The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund


title: Plate One, from Marriage à la Mode

creator: Gérard Scotin II (French, 1698-1755)

subjects:
Etching
France
Dogs
Animal
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing


title: Plate Six, from Marriage à la Mode


title: President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam

creator: Alexander Gardner

date: October 1862

medium: Albumen print, pl. 23 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)

subjects:
Photograph
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Gardner' photographic sketch book
Albumen silver print
Photography

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Everett Kovler


title: Slaughter Pen, Foot of Round Top, Gettysburg

creator: Timothy O'Sullivan

date: July 1863

medium: Albumen print, pl. 44 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)


title: Splash Cloth

creator: United States

medium: Linen, warp-float-faced 'S' twill weave; embroidered with cotton in stem and long and short stitches; edged with wool braid; applied metal alloy hanging rings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Arts and craft movement
Embroidering
Linen (material)
Twill weaving
Appliqué (technique)
Cotton (textile)
Wool (textile)
Metal
Needlework (visual works)
American arts and craft movement

credit_line: Gift of Christopher Monkhouse in honor of John Vinci


title: A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

medium: Albumen print, pl. 40 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)


title: Plate 110 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Plan of the Complete System of Street Circulation; Railway Stations; Parks, Boulevard Circuits and Radial Arteries; Public Recreation Piers, Yacht Harbor, and Pleasure-Boat Piers; Treatment of Grant Park; the Main Axis and the Civic Center, Presenting the City as a Complete Organism in which All its Functions are Related One to Another in such a Manner that it will Become a Unit

creator: Daniel Hudson Burnham, American, 1846-1912

medium: Ink and wash on paper

country: Chicago

subjects:
Ink
Chicago
Architecture
City
Drawing
Functional design
Harbor pier
Illinoi
Lake
Street
Urban planning
Paper (fiber product)
Architectural drawing
Wash

credit_line: On permanent loan to The Art Institute of Chicago from the City of Chicago


title: Quarters of Men in Fort Sedgwick

medium: Albumen print, pl. 83 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)

country: United States


title: Fragment (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: France

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julian Armstrong, Jr.


title: Portrait of the Artist's Mother

creator: Jean-Baptiste Greuze

medium: Black, red, and white chalk with stumping on brownish-gray laid paper, laid down on a ivory laid card

subjects:
Print and drawing
France
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Chalk
Drawing (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Celia and David Hilliard in honor of Suzanne Folds McCullagh


title: Rebirth of the Nun Anyo

creator: Artist Unknown

date: early 18th century

medium: Pair six-panel screens; ink, colors, and gold on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Painting
Japan
Buddhism
Religion
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Gold
Ink

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation


title: Landscape with Elegant Figures by a River, with Boats to the Right and a Town Behind Trees Beyond

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Brush and gray wash, with touches of white wash, over touches of charcoal, ruled in pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Landscapes
Trees
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt, possibly Akhmin

date: 4th-5th century

medium: Linen and wool, slit tapestry weave

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Linen (material)
Slit tapestry weaving
Coptic (historically identified as)
Greco-roman (egyptian)
Weaving
Wool (textile)

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Slit tapestry weaving
Linen (material)
Coptic (historically identified as)
Greco-roman (egyptian)
Weaving
Wool (textile)


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Linen (material)
Slit tapestry weaving
Coptic (historically identified as)
Weaving
Greco-roman (egyptian)
Wool (textile)


title: The Noble Painter

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Engraving, with etching, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Engraving
France
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund


title: Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Volume VII For the Year 1863

creator: published by Harper and Brothers (American, 1833-1942)

medium: Book with wood engravings in black on cream wove paper

subjects:
Book
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in memory of Bessie Kisloff Braude, Esq.


title: Contest for the Prize for the Study of Heads and Expression

creator: Jean-Jacques Flipart (French, 1719-1782)

date: 1763, based on a drawing from 1761

medium: Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper


title: Card Number 355, Pauline Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Ewer

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Card Number 45, Randall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: THE DAM/ AND/ WATER WORKS./ PHILADELPHIA.

creator: Henshall, Williamson & Co.

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Bequest of May Leask, 1916


title: Fishtail Knife

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Illustration for a Book:  Bishops and Monks Being Received at a Ship by a Venerable Dignitary

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Black chalk.   Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: Statuette of a snake

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects:
Bronze
Roman
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Souvenir spoon

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver gilt, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1900


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Credenza

medium: Walnut with intarsia

country: Italian

subjects: Woodwork-furniture Italian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1953


title: Saucer

medium: Painted enamel

country: China

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Mahavira's Lustration and Bath at Birth; Page from a Dispersed Kalpa Sutra (Jain Book of Rituals)

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Broad collar

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


title: Plaque with the Throne Name of Thutmose IV

credit_line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915


title: Gate of Christchurch

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

date: before September 1844

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994


title: Cap

date: early 1880s

medium: [no medium availale]

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Prick Spur

date: 9th century

medium: Iron alloy

country: Eastern European

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Eastern european

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed, openwork lace paper, chromolithography, colored paper, red ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Governor Marble, Maine, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-2), issued by Duke Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Ushnisha Cover

date: 8th–early 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: The Samuel Eilenberg-Jonathan P. Rosen Collection of Indonesian Gold, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg and Gift of Jonathan P. Rosen, 1998


title: Wine bottle

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Frank Stoner, 1930


title: Temple near the Appian Way, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Piece (one of 116)

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Under the Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannenbashi shita), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Terracotta statuette of a girl

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Glass pendant in the shape of a Black African’s head

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Tobacco box

creator: I. H. Hamer

medium: Brass, copper

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Stockings

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Edgar Tallman, 1954


title: Silver tetradrachm of Lysimachos

medium: Silver

country: Greek, Macedonian

subjects:
Coin
Greek, macedonian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1905


title: Fragment of an Inscribed Block

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Limestone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: David and Abigail

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Schnapps glass (one of twelve)

medium: Glass, enamel

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Portrait of Anton Heinrich Springer (1825–1895)

creator: Henri Lehmann

date: mid-19th century

medium: Graphite, touches of red chalk, heightened with white

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 1992


title: Saucer

date: 18th century

medium: Opaque glass

country: Italian, probably

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951


title: Triple-back settee (part of a set)

medium: Carved, gilded and painted walnut, reverse painted glass, cut and voided 17th-century crimson velvet

credit_line: Gift of John P. Richardson, 1992


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Tray

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. Livingston Schwartz Jr., 1947


title: The rest on the flight into Egypt

creator: Alessandro Algardi

date: late 17th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Eugénie Schlosser et Coralli

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: Hat ornament

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Colombia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Colombia

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1891


title: View of Luxembourg from the garden side of the Palais d'Orleans, from "Various views of remarkable places in Italy and France" (Diverses vues d'endroits remarquables d'Italie et de France)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Lucy Emerson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: Medea Flees from Jason (L'épée au poing court Jason la poursuivre mais ne peut celle en vitesse aconsuivre...), from "Jason and the Golden Fleece"

creator: René Boyvin

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Arrowhead

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton and silk on hemp canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: From the Collection of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper, Bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper, 1957


title: The Fireworks

creator: Jean Michel Moreau

date: January 21, 1782

medium: Etching and engraving in black on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper

country: France

subjects:
Etching
France
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund


title: Mizuno no omote shu

creator: Suikei (Japanese)

medium: Woodblock printed book

country: Japan

subjects: Book Japan

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Sukenobu ehon hana momiji

creator: Nishikawa Sukenobu (Japanese, 1671-1750)

medium: Woodblock printed books, 3 volumes with wrapper


title: Hand-mirrors of actors (Yakusha awase kagami)

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)

medium: Woodblock printed books, 2 volumes


title: Kaichu nenju gyoji

creator: Utagawa Sadakage (Japanese, active c. 1818-1844)

medium: Color woodblock printed books, 3 volumes


title: Shakahasso zokuyamato bunko (Erotic parody versions of Shaka Hasso Yamato Bunko written by Mantei Oga)(0020)

creator: Koikawa Shozan (Japanese, 1821-1907)

medium: Three color woodblock printed volumes with original paper cover

subjects:
Book
Japan
Paper (fiber product)


title: Ehon waraji jogo (Picture book: The Laughing Drinker)(0013-0015)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Three woodblock printed volumes


title: Oatsurae Kujiraobi

creator: Utagawa Kuninao (Japanese, 1792-1854)


title: Umegonomi neya no utsuriga (Lingering plum scent in the sleeping chamber)(0017-0019)

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Japanese, 1786-1864)

medium: Three color woodblock printed volumes


title: Madonna and Child, a Warrior Saint (Michael?), and a Group of Worshippers

creator: Bernardino Lanino

medium: Brush with brown and black ink and brown wash, black chalk, heightened with white, on multiple sheets of pieced, blue laid paper (now discolored).

country: Italy

subjects:
Italy
Drawing (visual works)
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Chalk
Brush and wash
Brush and ink
Ink
Laid paper
Wash
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray


title: Saint Willibrord

creator: Abraham Bloemaert

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with opaque white watercolor, over charcoal, on cream laid paper prepared with a blue wash

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Paper


title: Portraits of One-hundred Poets (Soga hyakunin isshu) (0008)

creator: Seiyo (Senjai)(?)

medium: Book

subjects: Book Japan Portraits


title: Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Lobby Details

creator: Adler and Sullivan

medium: Hectograph print on paper mounted on board

country: Chicago

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural drawing
Chicago
Paper (fiber product)

credit_line: Gift of George Grant Elmslie


title: A Sunlit Path through a Wood

creator: Thomas Gainsborough

medium: Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper

country: England

subjects:
Graphite
England
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Paper

credit_line: Regenstein Endowment Fund


title: Saint John the Baptist

creator: After Francesco Francia

date: second half of the 16th century

medium: Pen and brown iron gall ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper

subjects:
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing (visual works)
Paper
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Anne Searle Bent


title: Untitled (Mother with Dead Child)

creator: Artist unknown

medium: Daguerreotype

country: United States

subjects:
Photograph
United state
Mother
Children
Babie
Death
Daguerreotype
Photography

credit_line: Gift of The Estate of Carl A. and Helen Pelon Walvoord


title: Standing Saint in Portico

creator: Unknown artist

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk and graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper


title: Study for Female Head (verso); Head of Christ (recto)

creator: Carlo Francesco Nuvolone

medium: Black, red, brown, and ochre chalks, with stumping and touches of graphite, heightened with white chalk (recto), and black, red, yellow, and brown chalks, heightened with white chalk (verso), on blue laid paper (faded to tan on recto)

credit_line: Gift of Sepia Holding Company, LLC


title: The Presentation in the Temple

creator: Girolamo da Santacroce

medium: Red chalk, with pen and brown ink and traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, squared in pen and brown ink and ruled along the perimeter in red chalk

subjects:
Architecture
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing (visual works)
Paper
Print and drawing


title: Judith and Holofernes and Other Studies (recto); Diana and Endymion (verso)

creator: Giuseppe Nicola Nasini

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk and touches of pen and black ink (recto), and pen and brown and black inks, with red and black chalk and brush and brown wash (verso), on cream laid paper


title: Suffer the Little Children

creator: Domenico Piola I

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on gray board


title: Female Head Study Looking Up to Right (recto); Study of Two Figures Supporting an Object (verso)

creator: Follower of Guido Reni

medium: Black chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk (recto), and black chalk (verso) on tan laid paper


title: The Virgin and Child with Saint Clare and Saint Francis

creator: Circle of the Carracci

medium: Pen and brown and black ink, with brush and brown wash and touches of black chalk, heightened with lead white gouache, on cream laid paper, squared for transfer in black chalk, laid down on white Japanese paper


title: Happy Gouda

creator: Jan Toorop (Dutch, 1858-1928)

date: drawn April 1897 and published May 2, 1897

medium: Lithograph in brown on cream wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Thomas Baron


title: View across Black Cañon. The grand walls in perspective, No. 2 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

creator: Timothy O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840–1882)

medium: Albumen print, stereo

subjects:
Stereograph (albumen)
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Geographical exploration and survey
Photography
Photograph

credit_line: Photography Gallery Fund


title: "The Bath," a dripping spring in Kanab Cañon. Temperature, 69° Fahr, No. 9 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

creator: William H. Bell (American, 1830-1910)


title: Coyotero Apache Scouts, at Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca Mountains, Arizona. Two members of the Expedition in the back-ground, No. 31 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Characteristic ruin, of the Pueblo San Juan, New Mexico, on the north bank of the San Juan River, about 15 miles west of the mouth of Cañon Largo. The present race of Indians know nothing of when or by whom these buildings were constructed. The ruin is about 350 feet square, and built of natural stone, joined together by a mud cement, No. 43 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: The Cañon of Kanab Creek, near its junction with the Grand Cañon of the Colorado. In the foreground is a dripping spring affording a shower bath. Temperature, 69° Fahr, No. 8 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Mountain transportation. Pack mule, Pack and Packers, No. 7 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Types of Mojave Indians. This tribe inhabits the region of the lower Colorado, or western Arizona.Physically, they are the finest specimens in all the West, many of the males attaining to the height of 6 feet, No. 5 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Indian Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico; view from the interior. The "Pueblo" or town, encloses a quadrangular area within which are the ruins of a church built under the direction of the Jesuit missionaries. The houses are built one above the other to the height of five or six stories. The entrances are mostly from the top, the ascent and descent being made by ladders, No. 16 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Mouth of the Paria, Colorado River; walls 2.100 feet in height, No. 11 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Gardens surrounding the Indian Pueblo of Zuni, in which are raised a variety of vegetables, such as peppers, onions, garlic &c, No. 18 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Zuni Indian Girl, with water olla, No. 17 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Aboriginal life among the Navajo Indians, Cañon de Chelle, New Mexico. Squaw weaving blankets. The native loom. The blankets made are of the best quality, and impervious to water, No. 26 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: The northern wall of the Grand Cañon of the Colorado, near the foot of To-ro-weap valley. The rounded rocks of the foreground are sand-stone, No. 14 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

creator: William H. Bell (American, 1830–1910)


title: Camp Beauty, Canñon de Chelle; walls 1.200 feet high, width of Cañon at this point about one fourth of a mile. This view shows the perpendicular effect wrought by the action of floods. The Artist of the Expedition, Mr. Wyant, of New York, made a study of this scene with the intention to paint it as a characteristic Canon view, No. 25 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Navajo Indian Squaw, and Child, at their home, in Cañon de Chelle, No. 27 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Explorers Column, Cañon de Chelle, Arizona. This shaft is the work of nature, and is about 900 feet in height; base about 70 by 110 feet. It stands near the center of the Cañon, and it is almost impossible to believe that it is not the work of human hands, No. 23 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Central portion of Canñon de Chelle, New Mexico. This Canñon is one of the most remarkable in the west, and is noted for its beauty. The walls are of Red Sand-stone, nearly perpendicular, and at this point are 1.200 feet in height, No. 24 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Circle Walls, Cañon de Chelle. Here the Cañon bends from an easterly direction nearly due north, the walls maintaining a perpendicular height of about 1.200 feet, No. 22 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: War Chief of the Zuni Indians, No. 20 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Ruins in Cañon de Chelle, N. M., in a cavity in the wall, 60 feet above present bed of Cañon. Height of walls about 700 feet. The present race of Indians know nothing of the age of these buildings of who occupied them, No. 21 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: View down Black Cañon, from Mirror Bar. The walls repeated by reflection, No. 3 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Navajo Brave and his Mother. The Navajo were formerly a warlike tribe until subdued by U.S. Troops, in 1859-60. Many of them now have fine flocks, and herds of horses, sheeps and goats, No. 29 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

subjects:
Stereograph (albumen)
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Mother
Sons
Geographical exploration and survey
Photography
Photograph


title: Alpine lakes, and mountain scenery, in the Cerro Blanco Mountains, Colorado, 13.000 feet above sea-level, No. 47 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

subjects:
Stereograph (albumen)
United state
Landscapes
Collected by hugh edward
Geographical exploration and survey
Photography
Photograph


title: Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho, Main Fall, 210 feet from upper to lower level, width of fall, 800 feet from upper to lower level; Height of Cañon wall at the falls, 1.000 feet. A number of minor falls, Islands, and boulder rocks above the main fall add beauty to the lonely majesty of this scene, No. 48 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

subjects:
Stereograph (albumen)
United state
Reptiles & amphibians
Collected by hugh edward
Geographical exploration and survey
Waterfall
Photography
Photograph


title: Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho. Gorge and natural bridge, in the fore-ground, No. 50 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Alpine Lake, in the Cerro Blanco Mountains, Colorado. One of a group of ten lakes at the main head of Ute Creek. 11.000 feet above sea-level. Cerro Blanco Peak rises 14.269 feet abov the sea, lying to the westward, No. 45 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Baldy Peak, Cerro Blanco Mountains, Colorado, 14.234 feet above sea-level. Limit in altitude of vegetation about 11.000 feet, No. 46 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Jicarilla Apache Brave and Squaw, lately wedded. Abiquiu Agency, New Mexico


title: Lagunas Caballo, or Horse Lakes, 14 miles, N. W. from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico. The water of the lakes is strongly mineral and not fit for men or animals to drink, No. 44 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

subjects:
Stereograph (albumen)
United state
Minerals & gems
Collected by hugh edward
Geographical exploration and survey
Photography
Photograph


title: Shee-zah-nan-tan, Jicarilla Apache Brave in characteristic Costume, Northern New Mexico, No. 42 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Stereograph (albumen)
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Geographical exploration and survey
Photography
Photograph


title: Pah-ge, a Ute Squaw, of the Kah-poh-teh band, Northern New Mexico, No. 39 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Ute Braves, of the Kah-poh-teh band, Northern New Mexico, in "full dress", No. 40 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Lost Lakes, head of Conejos Cañon, Colorado, in the Sierra San Juan range, near divide between Conejos and south fork of Alamosa Rivers, surrounded by forest of Douglass spruce, and approximately 11.000 feel above sea-level, No. 37 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: One of the group of Pagosa Hot Springs, showing incrustation on the surface. Much prized by the Indians and miners on account of supposed healing qualities. Principal mineral element, Sulphate of Soda, No. 38 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Beaver Lake, Conejos Cañon, Colorado, 9.000 feet above sea-level, and 30 miles from mouth of Cañon, No. 35 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Cañon, Valley of the Conejos River, looking south from vicinity of "Lost Lakes", No. 36 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Apache Indians, as they appear ready for the war-path, No. 33 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Roman Catholic Church, Plaza of Guadaloupe, Guadaloupe Co., Colorado. Built not many years since of adobes. Dimensions, length 120 feet; width 60 feet; height 25 feet. Grave yard in the foreground surrounded by an abode wall about 6 feet in height, No. 34 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: The mouth of Kanab Creek. The beds of the Colorado River and its tributary here lie in gorges cut by the running water to the depth of about 3.500 feet below the general surgace of the country. The highest point seen in the picture is 2.500 feet above the water, and the walls are here too steep to be scaled, No. 10 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Cooley's Ranch, 10 miles east of Camp Apache, Arizona. A characteristic mountain "Park" and Apache Indian Farm. Here the Apaches grow corn, wheat and a few vegetables, No. 32 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Apache Lake, Summit of Sierra Blanca Mountains, about 35 miles east from Camp Apache, Arizona, and 10.500 feet above sea-level. This lake is similar to many found in the western mountains, No. 30 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: The "Vermillion Cliff," a typical plateau edge, as seen from Jacobs Pool, Arizona. From its top a plateau stretches to the right, and from its base another to the left. Their difference of level is 1.500 feet, and the step is too steep for scaling, No. 15 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: View in the Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, No. 12 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Marble Cañon, one of the gorges of the Colorado here, 1.200 feet deep. The steep cliff is gray limestone and the slope below a brilliant red sandstone, No. 13 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"


title: Portrait of Myself

creator: Theodore Roussel

medium: Drypoint and aquatint in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Drypoint
England
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg


title: On Stage I

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Soft ground etching and drypoint in black on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Etching
France
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing
Ink
Wove paper

credit_line: Suzanne and Marjorie Pochter Fund


title: Moles

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Etching
France
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Print and Drawing Fund


title: Grotta Ferrata

creator: Adrian Ludwig Richter

medium: Etching with engraving in black on ivory wove paper

country: Germany

subjects:
Etching
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of John Harvey S. Bergen in honor of Douglas Druick


title: View of Braubach

creator: Ernst Damitz

medium: Watercolor on ivory wove paper (discolored to tan)

subjects:
Paper
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Watercolor
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Helen R. Sailer


title: Portrait of Jean-Féry Rebel, Composer to the King

creator: Jean Moyreau (French, 1690-1762)

medium: Etching and engraving in black on cream laid paper

subjects:
Etching
France
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Fund


title: A View from the Palatine Hill, Rome, the Alban Hills in the Distance

creator: Carlo Labruzzi

medium: Watercolor, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on white laid paper, folded

subjects:
Paper
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Watercolor
Print and drawing

credit_line: Margaret Day Blake Fund


title: The Circumcision

creator: Abraham Bloemaert

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on buff laid card

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Paper


title: Woman Haymaker at Éragny

creator: Camille Pissarro

medium: Etching in black on cream wove paper (discolored to brown)

credit_line: Gift of Darryl Van Duch


title: Shunjo gidan mizuage cho

creator: Kunisada Utagawa (Japanese, 1786-1864)

medium: Woodblock printed books, three volumes

subjects: Book Japan

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Jehoram, Uzziah, Jotham, plate three, from The Twelve Kings of Israel

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Woodcut in black with touches of pen and brown ink on buff laid paper

subjects:
Woodcut
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund


title: The Beach with the Large Tower

creator: Claude-Joseph Vernet

credit_line: Suzanne Lord Folds Endowment Fund


title: Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasses, plate four, from The Twelve Kings of Israel


title: Tankard

creator: Possibly Bristol

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (pearlware), puce transfer-printed

country: Bristol

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Bristol
Ships & the sea
Earthenware
Tin-glazed ware
Pearlware
European decorative arts
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Harry A. Root, Jr. in memory of Curtis Chapin Palmer


title: Jacob and Esau

creator: Jacob Jordaens

medium: Charcoal, pen and brown ink, and brush and brown washes, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on pieced cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on tan laid paper

country: Flanders

subjects:
Charcoal
Flander
Dogs
Animal
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print and drawing


title: The Four Dead Ravens

creator: Henri Charles Guérard

medium: Drypoint and plate tone in black on cream laid paper

subjects:
Drypoint
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Bacchus and Drunken Silenus—The Dream of Silenus

creator: Frans van den Wyngaerde (Flemish, 1614-1679)

subjects:
Etching
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Thomas Baron in honor of Dr. Joel Heller and Mark Belokon


title: The Ruins of the Pirnaischer Suburb with the Palais Fürstenhof

creator: Bernardo Bellotto

medium: Etching with engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Etching
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing


title: Susanna and the Elders

creator:
Paulus Pontius (Flemish, 1603–1658)
after Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Engraving
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing


title: Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566-1633)

creator: Paulus Pontius (Flemish, 1603-1658)

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper


title: Ferdinand of Austria on Horseback

credit_line: Gift of Anne-Marie Logan


title: Border

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Border

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1906


title: Seated goddess

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76