title: Long Lagoon

medium: Etching and drypoint in light brown ink on cream laid paper

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


title: The Wine Glass

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper

country: United States

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

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: Bryan Lathrop Collection


title: En Plein Soleil

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white China paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé)

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


title: La Mère Gérard

medium: Etching in black ink on off-white China paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé)

subjects:
Etching
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Paper
Ink
Wove paper
China paper


title: Bohemians


title: Soupe à trois sous (Soup for three sous)

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white Japanese paper

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


title: Annie


title: Gold House, Brussels

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper


title: House of the Swan, Brussels


title: The Title Page for 'Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature'


title: Sunflowers, Marché St Germain, Paris

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory Japanese paper


title: Fragment from a Tunic

creator: Egypt

date: 6th-7th century

medium: Linen and wool, tapestry weave

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Coptic (historically identified as)
Weaving
Roman period (egyptian)

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Decoration for a Masked Ball given by the King

creator: Charles Nicolas Cochin I (French, 1688-1754)

medium: Etching and engraving on paper

country: France

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Fund


title: The Mocking of Christ

creator: Andries Dirksz Both

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

country: Holland

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wash
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Hercules, Two Satyrs, and a Woman, plate two from The Labors of Hercules

creator: Gabriel Salmon

medium: Woodcut on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Potter Palmer Collection Fund


title: Waterfall

creator: Louis Gabriel Moreau

medium: Gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, edge mounted on board

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph Regenstein


title: Fire in the Port


title: Shepherd's Meal

creator: John Raphael Smith (English, 1751-1812)

date: published February 1, 1803

medium: Hand-colored Mezzotint on ivory wove paper

country: England

subjects:
Mezzotint
England
Paper (fiber product)
Engraving (printing process)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Herbert R. Strauss


title: Vue du Schild-Wald-Bach, Prise Enhiver (View of Schild-Wald Bach, from the Vues remarquables des montagnes des la Suisse )

creator: Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820)

medium: Color aquatint with etching and engraving in black ink on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Edward C. Porter


title: Soup Bowl

creator: China

medium: Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding

country: Jingdezhen

subjects:
Bowl
Jingdezhen
Hard-paste porcelain
Chinese export
Dish (vessel)
Chinese export porcelain
Porcelain
Ceramic
Inorganic material
Chinese (culture or style)
East asian
Asian
European decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Russell Tyson


title: Henriette de Lorraine

creator: Cornelis Galle II (Flemish, 1615-1678)

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

country: Flanders

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

credit_line: Gift of Bernard F. Rogers, Sr.


title: Two Goats from Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'

creator: Iran

medium: Opaque watercolor and ink on paper

country: Iran

subjects:
Miniature painting
Iran
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Watercolor
Manuscript
Asian art
Islamic (culture or style)

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Saint George and the Dragon

creator: Enea Vico (Italian, 1523-1567)

medium: Engraving in black on buff laid paper

country: Italy

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


title: Angelica and Medoro

creator: Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520-1582)

credit_line: Gift of Bernard F. Rogers, Sr. Collection


title: Tea Bowl

date: Song dynasty (960–1279)

medium: Jian ware; stoneware with dark brown "hare's fur" glaze

country: China

subjects:
Drinking vessel
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel


title: The Touch, plate 42 from Types Parisiens

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso

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

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection


title: Jar in the Form of an Ancient Bronze Container (lei)

date: Warring States Period (475–221 B.C.)

medium: Stoneware

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


title: Fragment

creator: Manchu

medium: Silk brocade

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


title: Banners (Set of Four)

medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave with eccentric and interlaced outlining wefts; painted details; lined with silk, 4:1 satin damask weave; metal fittings

subjects:
Banner
China
Character
Dragon
Pagoda
Sunrise
Qing
Silk (fiber)
Weaving
Chinese (culture or style)
East asian
Asian
Paper (fiber product)
Textile
Gold leaf
Metal
Painting technique
Slit tapestry weaving


title: Reel

creator: Europe or United States

date: 19th century

medium: Wood with metal vise

country: Europe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Europe
Textile working equipment
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William F. Petersen


title: Cushion Cover

medium: Brocade

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Kangxi
Weaving
Qing
Chinese (culture or style)
East asian
Asian

credit_line: Gift of the Orientals


title: Southampton Water

creator: Attributed to James McNeill Whistler

medium: Watercolor and opaque watercolor on cream wove paper

subjects:
Watercolor
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Water-base paint
Gouache
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper
Wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.


title: The Letter B, from The Alphabet

creator: Master E. S.

country: Germany

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Album Cover for Landscapes and Interiors

creator: Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)

medium: Color lithograph on grayish-ivory laid China paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster


title: On the Bridge of Europe, plate nine from Landscapes and Interiors

medium: Color lithograph on grayish-ivory China paper


title: The Pastry Shop, plate ten from Landscapes and Interiors


title: Sheet of Sketches, No. 3

creator: Alexandre Gabriel Decamps

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club


title: Frontispiece, from The Miseries of War

creator: Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)

medium: Etching on paper

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

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: The Battle, plate three from The Miseries of War


title: Recruitment of Troops, plate two from The Miseries of War


title: Plundering a Large Farmhouse, plate five from The Miseries of War


title: Scene of Pillage, plate four from The Miseries of War


title: Plundering and Burning a Village, plate seven from The Miseries of War


title: Destruction of a Convent, plate six from The Miseries of War


title: Attack on the Coach, plate eight from The Miseries of War


title: The Strappado, plate ten from The Miseries of War


title: Discovery of the Criminal Soldiers, plate nine from The Miseries of War


title: The Firing Squad, plate twelve from The Miseries of War


title: The Hospital, plate fifteen from The Miseries of War


title: The Wheel, plate fourteen from The Miseries of War


title: The Stake, plate thirteen from The Miseries of War


title: The Peasants Avenge Themselves, plate seventeen from The Miseries of War


title: Landscape with Two Men Walking

creator: Tobias Verhaecht

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and blue ink washes, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper

country: Belgium

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Belgium
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wash
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Bequest from the estate of Everett D. Graff


title: Distribution of Rewards, plate eighteen from The Miseries of War


title: Old-Time Spinner in Southern Cotton Mill

creator: Lewis Wickes Hine

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr

credit_line: Gift of David Vestal


title: Poor Rural Family Living In A Smoke-House, Oklahoma, In Care Of Red Cross


title: Old man on a swing

creator: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

medium: Etching and burnished aquatint and/or lavis on ivory paper

country: Spain

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

credit_line: Charles Deering Print Fund


title: Children, Portsmouth

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching with foul biting in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Bryan Lathrop Collection


title: Lamentation Over Christ

creator: Master S

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

country: Netherlands

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


title: Rue de la Rochefoucault

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: Christ on the Cross

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Potter Palmer, II


title: Handkerchief

creator: France

medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Needlework (visual works)
Accessorie (object genre)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frank J. Birk in memory of her mother, Emma Schoenhofen Theuren


title: Ruffle

medium: White taffeta with cut work pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Sarape

creator: Mexico, possibly Saltillo

medium: Cotton and wool, tapestry weave, slit; single dovetail; attached knotted fringe

country: Mexico

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Mexico
Folk art
Weaving
Anasazi
Pre-columbian
America
Latin american

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Roy A. Doty


title: Border

creator: Italy, Milan

medium: Linen, bobbin part lace

country: Milan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Milan
Lace - bobbin

credit_line: Gift of Honoré Palmer


title: Border

creator: Flanders, Brussels

country: Brussels

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Brussel
Lace - bobbin


title: Lobed Tripod Cauldron (Li)

creator: China

date: Longshan culture (c. 2500–2000 BC)

medium: Earthenware

subjects:
Earthenware
China
Terracotta
Chinese (culture or style)
Inorganic material
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: Display Plate with Female Bust

creator: Italian, Deruta

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware with copper luster

country: Deruta

subjects:
Earthenware
Deruta
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Decorative arts

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Drug Jar (Albarello)

creator: Siena, Italy

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Siena

subjects:
Earthenware
Siena
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Stemmed Bowl (dou)

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95)

medium: Porcelain

subjects:
Vessel
China
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceremonial object
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: Mrs. Siegfried G. Schmidt


title: Handkerchief

creator: France (needlework) and Belgium (lace)

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with cotton in back, eyelet, padded overcast, and padded satin stitches; buttonhole wheels; insertion and edging of cotton, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "Valenciennes"

country: France

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


title: Handkerchief

medium: textile


title: Panel

medium: Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 3:1 twill interlacings and self-patterned by areas of plain weave

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


title: Five Fragments

date: 18th century

medium: Plain compound cloth

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving


title: Catherine, Lady Bampfylde

creator: Thomas Watson (English, 1743-1781)

medium: Mezzotint on laid ivory paper

country: England

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

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: San Marco

creator: Otto Henry Bacher

medium: Etching in black on cream laid paper

country: United States

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Mary H. Bacher


title: Lace

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper print

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Everett Kovler


title: Pin Cushion (Two Pieces)

creator: United States

medium: Wood with painted decoration in blue and white

subjects:
Sewing tool
United state
Accessorie (object genre)
Pincushion
Textile
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: A Mill, from English Landscape

creator: David Lucas (English, 1802-1881)

medium: Mezzotint on off-white wove paper

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


title: Teapot

creator: Wedgwood Manufactory

medium: Stoneware (basaltware)

country: Burslem

subjects:
Teapot
Burslem
Basalt ware
Teaware
Stoneware
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Bonnet Veil

creator: France, Chantilly or Bayeux

medium: Silk, bobbin straight lace (made in horizontal strips)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Silk (textile)
Lace - bobbin
Lace

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Bereavement, plate five from Woman

creator: Albert Besnard

medium: Etching on cream Japanese paper

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

credit_line: Albert H. Wolf Memorial Collection


title: Breakfast, plate four from Woman

medium: Etching in black on cream Japanese paper


title: Delivery, plate three from Woman

medium: Etching and drypoint and aquatint on cream Japanese paper


title: Suicide, plate eleven from Woman

medium: Etching and aquatint on cream Japanese paper


title: Flirtation, plate six from Woman

medium: Etching, aquatint and drypoint on cream Japanese paper


title: Social Success, plate seven from Woman


title: Apotheosis, plate twelve from Woman


title: Misery, plate nine from Woman

medium: Etching and aquatint in black on cream Japanese paper

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


title: Prostitution, plate ten from Woman


title: Woman, frontispiece from Woman

medium: Etching, drypoint and aquatint on cream Japanese paper


title: Love, plate two from Woman

medium: Etching, drypoint and retroussage inking in black ink on cream Japanese paper


title: The Rape, plate eight from Woman


title: Road Scene, Heathersett

creator: John Crome

medium: Etching on China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

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

credit_line: Everett D. Graff Memorial Fund


title: Butchers of Rome

creator: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824)

medium: Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


title: Christ Taken, from The Passion

creator: Jan Gillisz. van Vliet

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Holland

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

credit_line: Hannan Endowment


title: Women Viewing Paintings

creator: Attributed to Jiao Bingzhen (Chinese, late 17th–early 18th century)

date: Qing Dynasty (1644–1912)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Guy H. Mitchell


title: Album Page with a Portrait of Namdar Khan (Side A) and Calligraphic Specimens (Side B)

creator: India

date: , late 17th century (painting and borders),16th/17th century (calligraphy)

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

country: India

subjects:
Miniature
India
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
South asian
Gold
Watercolor
Asian art
Painting


title: Dalmatic

creator: Italy

date: 17th century

medium: Red velvet with design of gold brocaded panels

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving - velvet
Liturgical
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Tripp


title: Orphrey Band

creator: Italy, Perugia

medium: Linen, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk in satin and split stitches; laid work, couching and padded couching

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

credit_line: Harriott A. Fox Endowment


title: The Embrace

creator: Master M.Z.

medium: Engraving in black on pinkish cream laid paper

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Without a Dowry

creator: James Tissot

medium: Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Dr. John J. Ireland


title: Farm Horses

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Neilson


title: Prancing Horse

creator: Louis-Pierre-Marie Courtin (French, born c. 1788)

date: after 1823


title: Terracotta vase in the form of a phallus

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek

subjects: Vase Greek

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: Classical Purchase Fund, 1999


title: Landscape, from a series of six landscapes titled "Observationib.Astronom.Regiae.Paris.Scient. Acad...1736"

creator: Quentin Pierre Chedel

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Bowl with Pouring Lip

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Maya

subjects: Maya Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1978


title: Anna Bruce, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bracelet

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Ivory

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Terracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel)

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Vase
Cypriot
Ships & the sea

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


title: Hexagonal box with inverted corners

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Carved black lacquer with red layers

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: St. Jerome

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Tumbler

medium: Non-lead glass with enamel decoration

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Design for Pink, Gold, Blue and White Curtains with Blue Fringes and a Gold and Wood Pediment

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 2 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Italy, from the Natives in Costume series (N16) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: The adoration of the shepherds

creator: Diego de Astor

medium: Engraving

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1978


title: Covered Goblet with a Knight on the Lid

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Xylophone

medium: Wood, leather

country: probably South African

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-bar-wood
Probably south african

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Vase

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; free blown, tooled

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


title: Bottle

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1944


title: Armchair

creator: Michel Gourdin

medium: Carved and painted beechwood; cut and voided velvet upholstery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


date: first half of the 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Limestone block with dedication

date: late 3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone, Egyptian

country: Greek, Ptolemaic Egyptian

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Greek, ptolemaic egyptian


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, punto in aria

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Design for a Carriage

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952


title: Jar

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Coclé (Macaracas)

subjects:
Ceramics-container
Coclé (macaracas)

credit_line: Gift of Carol R. Meyer, 1993


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Valance

medium: Silk and wool on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Rhyton

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon Douglas III, 1984


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: German, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Textile Design with a Pattern of Garlands of Stylized Leaves Splattered with Pearls Over a Stippled Background

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Design for Export Furniture

creator: Anonymous, Chinese, 19th century

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1950


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Fan

date: first half 19th century

medium: Pierced horn, glass, gilt bronze, paint

credit_line: Bequest of Dorothy Bateman Beck, 1974


title: Goblet (one of a pair)

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Bell

date: 19th century

medium: Copper

country: Mexican

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper Mexican


title: Mike "King" Kelly, Baseball Player, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Cornice Part

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Sard scarab

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Sard

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gems
Etruscan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Rupert L. Joseph, 1955


title: The Small Madonna and Child

creator: Martin Schongauer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: George Khuner Collection, Bequest of Marianne Khuner, 1984


title: Tile

creator: J. and J. G. Low Art Tile Works

medium: Earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Adeline R. Brown, by exchange, 1977


title: Snuff Bottle in Simulated Realgar

date: late 18th century

medium: Variegated red glass with turquoise stopper

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Actress wearing white sleeveless bodice with blue floral details, from Stars of the Stage, First Series (N129) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

subjects: Print Flowers


title: Sword-Hilt Collar (Fuchi)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper

credit_line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936


title: Hungarian horseman riding towards the left, other horsemen in the background, a circular composition from 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; reverse copy

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Scolari Barr, 1986


title: Band

date: 12th century

medium: Linen and silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Annie

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium:
Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory
china paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé)

country: United States

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Battersea Morn

medium: Drypoint in black ink on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Drypoint
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Paper
Ink
Laid paper


title: The Balcony

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: The Beggars

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

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


title: Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper


title: The Church - Brussels (Adoration)

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


title: The Bridge, Santa Marta

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


title: Palaces, Brussels

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

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


title: Grand' Place, Brussels

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper


title: The Dam Wood


title: The Fishing Boat


title: Isle de la Cité, Paris

medium: Etching and drypoint in black ink on ivory wove paper

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


title: The Garden


title: Long Lagoon

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


title: The Kitchen

medium: Etching in black ink with foul biting on off-white China paper laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)


title: Lindsey Houses

medium: Drypoint in black ink on off-white paper

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


title: The Lime-Burner

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


title: Longshore Men

medium: Etching and drypoint in black ink on buff wove paper

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


title: The Little Rotherhithe

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

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


title: Nocturne: Furnace

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in dark brown ink on Asian laid paper


title: The Music-Room

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white wove paper

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


title: The Pool

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

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


title: Pickle Herring Wharf


title: Wapping - The Pool


title: The Little Putney


title: Price's Candle Factory

medium: Drypoint in dark brown ink on off-white laid paper


title: Old Putney Bridge


title: Riva, No. 2

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in brown ink on ivory laid paper


title: St. James's Street

medium: Etching in black ink on off-white laid paper

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


title: The Smithy


title: Speke Shore

medium: Drypoint in black ink on off-white laid paper


title: Soupe à trois sous (Soup for three sous)

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on buff wove paper


title: Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate

medium: Etching in black ink on white wove paper

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


title: Shipbuilder's Yard, Liverpool

medium: Drypoint with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper

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


title: The Storm

medium: Drypoint in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper


title: Steamboats off the Tower


title: Stevens' Boat Yard

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper


title: Greenhithe

medium: Drypoint in black ink on ivory laid paper


title: Wych Street, London

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: Ross Winans

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink, with graphite additions along shoulder and sleeve at left, on off-white wove paper

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


title: Rattle

creator: United States

date: 18th to 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects:
Ivory
United state
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Eisenberg


title: The Triumph of Time (recto); Sketch of a Stag (verso)

creator: Style of Dirk Vellert

medium: Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: Brushpot with a Bird Flying by a Willow Tree

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period (1662–1722)

medium: Porcelain with aubergine glaze and underglaze incised decoration

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Birds
Trees
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Handkerchief

creator: Philippines, Manila

medium: Linen; embroidered

country: Philippines

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard Linn


title: Rest on the Flight to Egypt

creator: Simone Cantarini

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Italy

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

credit_line: Hannan Fund


title: Cloak Pin (Knob or Tieback)

creator: Probably Birmingham, England

medium: Copper, transfer printed enamel, iron and brass

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessory worn above the waist
England
Copper
Metalwork
Enamel
Pin (jewelry)
European decorative arts


title: Cloak Pin (Knob or Tieback)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessory worn above the waist
England
Copper
Metalwork
Enamel
Pin (jewelry)
American decorative arts
American arts


title: Cloak Pin (Knob or Tieback)

medium: Transfer printed and polychrome enamels on copper, brass


title: Bent Tree by the Water

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

medium: Charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream board

country: France

subjects:
Chalk
France
Trees
Erasing
Paper (fiber product)
Charcoal
Plant material
Stumping
Drawing technique
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Harold Joachim Birthday Fund, purchased with funds provided by the Alsdorf Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Frank B. Hubachek


title: Cloak Pin (Knob or Tieback)

medium: Transfer printed and polychrome enamels on copper, brass and iron


title: Border

creator: Belgium, Flanders, Antwerp, for Dutch Peasant market

medium: Linen, bobbin straight lace

country: Antwerp

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Antwerp
Lace - bobbin
Lace


title: Border

creator: France

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen yarns, pulled threadwork, embroidered in cable, cross, crossed back, variations of hem, interlocking lace, open buttonhole filling, overcast, pearl, satin, single faggot, and wave filling stitches; button-holed eyelets

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


title: Cap Crown

creator: Belgium, Flanders, Mechlin

country: Flanders

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessory
Flander
Lace making
Linen (material)
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: Bag

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

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


title: Shawl

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing


title: Actor Nakamura Sukegorô II as a Chivalrous Commoner (Otokodate)

creator: Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

date: About 1768–70

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban

country: Japan

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Frederick W. Gookin Collection


title: The Actor Nakamura Sukegoro II as Kaminari Shokuro in the Joruri "Gonin Otoko" (Five Chivalrous Commoners), Played as One Act in the Ayatsuri Kabuki Ogi (Mastery of the Fan in Kabuki), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Twentieth Day of the Seventh Month, 1768

creator: Attributed to Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; one sheet of pentaptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in His Dressing Room

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Snails, Strawberries and a Flower in a Decorated Initial "A" from a Manuscript

creator: European

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera, gold paint, and brown ink on vellum

country: Europe

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


title: Actor Ôtani Hiroji III in His Dressing Room, Assisted by (possibly) Ôtani Tokuji I and Observed by (possibly) Nakamura Nakazô I

date: About 1783

medium: Color woodblock print; ôban


title: Swamp Plants

creator: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, the elder

medium: Etching on paper

country: Germany

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Louise Lutz


title: Peasant and Pigs

creator: John Raphael Smith (English, 1752-1812)

medium: Mezzotint on off-white wove paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Philip Dighton


title: Musashibô Benkei Brings the Captured Tosabô Shôshun to Yoshitsune

date: About 1782


title: Table Topper

creator: Mary Toppin (American, active c. 1760)

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool in bullion, chain, and satin stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework (visual works)
Women artist

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


title: Orphrey Cross

creator: Southern Germany

date: Late 15th century

medium: Silk, satin weave underlaid with linen, plain weave; appliquéd with silk, satin weave; linen and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; and three-dimensional figures of silk, satin weave; linen, plain weave; and silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk, linen, gilt-metal-strip- and wire-wrapped silk in satin stitch; couching, padded couching, and French knots; painted; glass beads and semi-precious stones

country: Southern Germany

subjects:
Southern germany
Needlework (visual works)
Cross
Crucifixion
Jesus
Keys
People
Sacred
Saint paul
Sword
Silk (fiber)
Embroidering
Liturgical
Textile
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Glass bead
Linen
Paint
Semiprecious stone
Appliqué (technique)
Couching (embroidering)
Cut velvet
Needleworking
Plain weaving
Satin weaving

credit_line: Emily Crane Chadbourne Fund


title: Roundel Fragment

creator: Egypt

date: 6th-8th century

medium: Linen and wool, tapestry weave

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Coptic (historically identified as)
Weaving
Roman period (egyptian)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Deering


title: Blue-and-White Stem Cup

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue

country: China

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Fragment

creator: Iran

date: 11th/13th century

medium: Silk

country: Iran

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Iran
Sassanian
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Logan-Patten-Ryerson Collection


title: Fragment (Furnishing Fabric)

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed

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

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


title: Coffee Pot

creator: Francis Crump

medium: Silver

country: London

subjects:
Silver
London
Nonferrous metal
Metal
Inorganic material
Metalwork
European decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Esther Johaningman Bingham


title: Flounce

creator: Germany

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen yarns; pulled threadwork, embroidered in buttonhole, cross, crossed back, four-sided, herringbone, interlocking lace, overcast, punch, satin, single faggot, and wave filling stitches

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer II, through the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Chelsea

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel E. Johnson


title: DUP..., plate 171 from Célébrités de la Caricature

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black, with hand coloring, on ivory wove paper, fixed (fixative discolored to yellow)

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

credit_line: Gift of George F. Porter


title: Rotherhithe

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

credit_line: Bequest of Harold R. Warner


title: Plate One, from A New Book of Ornaments

creator: Simon Gribelin II

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: Mug

creator: Bohemia, Czech Republic

medium: Opaque blue glass with transparent beads, colored enamels, and gilt decoration

country: Bohemia

subjects:
Glass
Bohemia
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Julius and Augusta Rosenwald


title: Portrait of Marshal von der Schulenburg

creator: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

medium: Black chalk and charcoal with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on wood pulp board

subjects:
Chalk
Italy
Portraits
Stumping
Paper (fiber product)
Charcoal
Plant material
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Inorganic material
White chalk
Drawing technique
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

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


title: Interior with Two Pairs of Lovers and a Fool

creator: Johann Liss

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Stanley Field Fund


title: Anecdotes: Border for a Title Page

creator: George Cruikshank (English, 1792-1878)

medium: Lithograph on paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne


title: Sarape

creator: Saltillo, Mexico

date: before 1800

medium: Cotton and wool, tapestry weave; joined with cotton, needle-made knotted insert; plied and knotted warp fringe; two loom widths joined; all selvages present

country: Saltillo

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Saltillo
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing
Latin american

credit_line: Gift of Avrina Pugh


title: Six Panels

creator: England, Spitalfields

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary brocading wefts

country: Spitalfields

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

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


title: Dal River

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching on buff laid paper

country: Sweden

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

credit_line: Gift of Miss Anna W. Chinlund and Miss Mildred W. Chinlund


title: Insertion with Added Points

creator: Italy

medium: Linen, bobbin part lace

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Lace making
Linen (material)
Lace - bobbin

credit_line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society


title: Border

creator: Possibly France

medium: Gold-gilted-silver strip-wrapped silk and gold-gilted-silver strips, bobbin straight lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Lace - bobbin
Lace
Silk (fiber)


title: Fragment (Border)

medium: Linen, needle lace with needle made tapes

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Lace - needle


title: The Dover Express

creator: Charles B. Newhouse (English, 1805-1877)

medium: Watercolor, heightened with white gouache, and selectively varnished on gray wove paper

country: England

subjects:
Watercolor
England
Paper (fiber product)
Water-base paint
Paint
Coating (material)
Gouache
Varnish
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Cut Out Motif (Needlework)

creator: China

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

medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in knot stitches; laid work and couching; cut and glued to paper support

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Paper (fiber product)
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Accessorie (object genre)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Ziff


title: Border (Fragment)

creator: Belgium, Flanders, probably Antwerp

medium: Linen, bobbin straight lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Flander
Lace - bobbin
Lace


title: Fragment (Three Joined Strips)

medium: Cotton and linen, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "Mechlin" with a kat stitch and Rose mesh ground

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Flander
Roses
Lace - bobbin
Lace


title: Panel

creator: France

medium: Cotton, balanced plain weave, block printed; glazed

country: France

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Border (Altar Cloth)

creator: Germany

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with linen yarns; cut and drawn work embroidered in back, buttonhole, Greek cross filling, interlocking lace, and punch stitches; overcast bars and loop picots; pulled threadwork embroidered in buttonhole, cross, crossed back, four-sided, Greek cross filling , interlocking lace, marking cross, overcast, punch, satin, single faggot, and wave filling stitches; embroidered in buttonhole, chain, running, and satin stiches

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


title: Border (From a Cover)

creator: Southern Italy or Sicily

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen yarns; pulled threadwork, embroidered in Antwerp edge, crossed back, four-sided, Greek cross filling, interlocking lace, running, satin, and single faggot stitches

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


title: Flounce

creator: Flanders

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Flander
Lace - bobbin

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas B. Marston through the Antiquarian Society


title: Salute Dawn

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: Purchased with funds provided by T. E. Donnelley and Gaylord Donnelley


title: Study for Portrait of a Man in an Armchair, from Collection d'imitations de Dessins d'après les Principaux Maîtres Hollandais et Flamands

creator: Christian Josi (Dutch, died 1828)

medium: Graphite over red chalk on light weight tracing paper

country: Netherlands

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


medium: Graphite and red chalk on light weight tracing paper


title: Portrait of a Man in an Armchair, from Collection d'imitations de Dessins d'après les Principaux Maîtres Hollandais et Flamands

medium: Tracing in red and black chalk on oiled paper; partially pricked for transfer

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


title: Child in a crib and Jeux de physionomie after Ducreux

creator: Monogrammist A.L.P.

date: September 1817

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Harold Joachim Purchase Fund


medium: Red chalk counterproof on tracing paper


medium: Soft ground etching from two plates, etching, aquatint, and roulette, with brush and grey wash, on paper

country: Holland

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


title: Sketches of Seven Heads, etc.

creator: Monogrammist B.D.P.


title: Man's Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe)

creator: Manchu

medium: Silk, 1:1 plain gauze weave; embroidered in stem filling stitches; sleeves: silk, 1:1 plain gauze weave (figured); edging and closures: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts; neck trimmed with cords of gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk couched with silk; sleeves and cuffs lined with silk, 1:1 plain gauze weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Paper (fiber product)
Needlework (visual works)
Costume - needlework
Chinese (culture or style)
East asian
Asian
Manchu-style
Costume
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel E. Barrett through the Antiquarian Society


title: Expressive Head

creator: Artist unknown (French, early 19th century)

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper


title: Sonnet: "When I have fears that I may cease to be"

creator: Will Hicock Low

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects:
United state
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Painting

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hammond Stickney


title: Ode: "Bards of passion and of mirth"


title: Ode on Melancholy


title: Border

date: 17th century

medium: Linen, plain gauze weave; embroidered with silk floss in running, double running and satin stitches

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward E. Ayer through the Antiquarian Society


title: Keats' Last Sonnet


title: Loveless Disarming Himself

creator: Unknown Artist (French, early 19th century)

date: after 1824

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper


title: Love and Nature Do Not Know These Distances

creator: Unknown French artist

date: 19th century


title: Bowl

creator: Worcester Porcelain Factory (Warmstry House Period, 1751–1783)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, underglaze blue decoration

country: Worcester

subjects:
Bowl
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Dish (vessel)
European decorative arts
Ceramic

credit_line: Bequest of Mildred Hofeller for the Betje and Simon Straus Collection


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration

country: Jingdezhen

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Jingdezhen
Hard-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Tableware
Dish (vessel)
European decorative arts
Ceramic


title: Pentecost and Christ Carrying the Cross

creator: Unknown artist

medium: Hand-colored woodcuts, with gilding and letterpress, on vellum

subjects:
Woodcut
France
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Sonnenschein


title: Sampler

creator: Probably France

medium: Silk, plain gauze weave; embroidered in checker filling, cross, darning, four-sided, herringbone, open buttonhole filling, overcast, satin, and wave stitch ground stitches; darned wheels (lacis)

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Schweppe through the Needlework and Textile Guild of Chicago


title: Islands: Evening

medium: Drypoint in black ink on cream laid paper laid down on cream wove paper

subjects:
Drypoint
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Print
Print and drawing
Paper
Laid paper
Wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Robert Forsyth


title: Little Salute

medium: Drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: Partie perdue (Soldiers Playing Cards)

creator: Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833-1914)

medium: Etching, with engraving, on parchment

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

credit_line: Estate of Robert Forsyth


title: The Little Putney

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in dark brown ink on off-white laid paper

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

credit_line: Forsyth Bequest


title: Sketchbook

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Italian, 1542-1615)

medium: Sketchbook

subjects:
Sketchbook
Italy
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), English Nobleman, Governor-General of the United Provinces in 1585-87

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Engraving
Netherland
Text
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf


title: The Venetian Wedding

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

country: Germany

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


title: Landscape

creator: Henry Richard Greville, 3rd Earl of Warwick

medium: Lithograph on ivory wove paper

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Fund


title: Mr. and Mrs. Fürstenberg

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Wallace L. DeWolf and Charles Deering Collections of Etchings by Anders Zorn


title: Travelers with Two Mules

creator: Jan Miel (Flemish, 1599-1663)

medium: Red chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card

subjects:
Chalk
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Chalk stick
Red chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Ponte Vecchio, destroyed plate

creator: Otto Henry Bacher

medium: Etching on ivory chine mounted on ivory wove paper

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


title: Vase with Floral Scrolls

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign mark and period (1736–1795)

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze famille rose enamels

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

credit_line: Bequest of Henry C. Schwab


title: Pear-Shaped Vase with Floral Scrolls

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign mark (1736–1795), 18th/19th century

medium: Celadon-glazed porcelain with underglaze molded decoration

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


title: Flagellation of Christ

creator: School of Guercino

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

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


title: The Vampire II

creator: Edvard Munch

medium: Color lithograph and woodcut on tan wove paper with fibrous inclusions

country: Norway

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


title: Man

creator: Nevers, France

medium: Glass; lampwork (verre de Nevers), metal armature

subjects:
Ornament & design
Decorative object/ornament
France
Lampworking
Glass
Lampwork
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer through the Antiquarian Society


title: Virgin and Child with John the Baptist


title: Casket

date: Late 17th century

medium: Wood, silk, embroidery, verre de Nevers, metal, and gilding

country: Nevers

subjects:
Never
Needlework (visual works)
Wood (plant material)
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer II through the Antiquarian Society


title: Boy

date: Early 18th century


title: Cavesson (Psálion)

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Copper alloy (bronze)

country: Roman or Thracian

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
Roman or thracian

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: May Robson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Femme Turque, qui fume sur le Sopha, plate 45 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Ecce Homo

creator: Anonymous, French

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on buff paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Mlle. Eva, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Brooch

medium: tortoiseshell, gold, silver

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Judith and Ira L. Sommer, 1988


title: Jar with handles

medium: Earthenware with pigment

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Chinese Railing, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Jug

creator: Boston Silver Glass Company

medium: Free-blown silvered and colorless glass, pewter

country: American

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1983


title: Jar with pointed base and intact seal

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Lid

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


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

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

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: Terracotta rim fragment of a stemless? kylix (drinking cup)


title: Bertha Ricci, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Bead

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Shell

subjects:
Jewelry
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Limestone statuette of Herakles brandishing a club

date: first half of the 5th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Spoon

date: mid-19th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel P. Avery, 1897


title: Bead, broken

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Stylized Rosettes

medium: Plain-weave cotton with warp and weft kasuri (ikat) patterning

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


title: Burning of the "Factories" in Canton

creator: Chinese Painter

medium: Oil on copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Shylock, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, 2002


title: Amphora

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Visner, Catcher, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Scene with a Saint

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Square Seal with Tile-Shaped Knob

medium: Shoushan soapstone (baifurong stone)

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 2007


title: Pendant

date: early 600s

medium: Gold with garnets

country: Anglo-Saxon

subjects: Metalwork-gold Anglo-saxon

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1987


title: Wooden Spindle

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Wood, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-implement

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron


title: Miniature porringer

creator: George Manjoy

credit_line: The Joseph M. and Aimee Loeb May Collection, 1963


title: Terracotta strainer

date: early 4th century BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Flask

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: View of Norba from the North, towards San Felice Circeo

creator: Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, 2015


title: Landscape with a Hay Barn and a Flock of Sheep

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint; second of two states

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


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


title: Hunter on Horseback Hunting a Wild Boar

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut; second state of two (Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Dragon Hook

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2010


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: A quarter of an hour after his death, he was still living, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, February 20, 1866

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: February 20, 1866

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: The Bodhisattva Five-Topknot Monju (Manjushri) (Gokei Monju Bosatsu zō)

creator: Unidentified artist

date: probably 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, gofun, gold pigment, and kirikane (cut gold leaf) on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Barbara Brennan Ford, 2021


title: Foundation deposit plaque of Amenemhat I

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

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


title: Sake bottle

medium: Porcelain decorated in blue under the glaze (Arita ware, Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. V. Everit Macy, 1923


title: Votive Ornament

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905


title: Actor

creator: Nevers, France

medium: Glass; lampwork (verre de Nevers), metal armature

country: France

subjects:
Ornament & design
Decorative object/ornament
France
Lampworking
Glass
Lampwork
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer through the Antiquarian Society


title: Kneeling Boy

date: Mid 19th century


title: Man

date: 18th century


title: Layers of Kikaku Poetry

creator: Shibata Zeshin

date: 8th month, 1885

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Charles H. Mitchell Collection unrestricted gift


title: Boy


title: Laguna, Venice

creator: Frank Duveneck

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: United States

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

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: The Goatherd Lamon Handing the Infant Daphnis to His Wife Myrtele

creator: Ambroise Dubois

date: after 1606

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink wash, with black chalk, brush and gray wash, and opaque white watercolor, on pieced cream laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
France
Mythology
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wash
Gouache
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

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


title: Byzantine Column Capital

creator: John Ruskin

medium: Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash and white gouache, over taces of graphite, on cream wove paper

country: England

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
England
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Wash
Gouache
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Graphite
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Miniature Bottle in the Form of an Ancient Bronze Jar (Hu)

creator: China

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: Rhinoceros horn

subjects:
Rhinocerous horn
China
Chinese (culture or style)
Horn
Vessel
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Homer E. Sargent


title: Renounce the Friend Who Covers You with His Wings and Bites You with His Beak, plate five from Los Proverbios

creator: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

medium: Etching and aquatint on ivory wove paper

country: Spain

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


title: To Go Amongst the Branches, i.e. to talk through one's hat, plate three from Los Proverbios

medium: Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on ivory wove paper


title: Bacchanal

creator: Giulio Carpioni

country: Italy

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

credit_line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection


title: Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli

creator: Bartholomeus Breenbergh

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over graphite, with touches of graphite over the washes, on cream laid paper

country: Holland

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wash
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Charles H. Worcester Sketch Fund


title: Parasol Cover

creator: France, Chantilly or Bayeux

medium: Silk, bobbin straight lace (made in strips)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Lace - bobbin
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Virginia Paul Black


title: The Election Hoax. “My dear friend... do not think that I have come to ask you for your vote. I respect the independence of opinion too much for that. It is the Baroness who said to me: " Go see that poor Galouzet, tell his little wife that she is neglecting me and that I am angry with her for that. Ask about their lovely children, and say that I absolutely insist on having them over for dinner,” plate 1 from Les Carottes

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt


title: Sweetmeat Dish

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with blue enamel

country: Bow

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Bow
Ships & the sea
Soft-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Tableware
European decorative arts
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Smart


title: Fireworks at Hemissem

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

country: Bohemia

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

credit_line: Rosenthal Fund


title: Joseph and his Brothers at the Well, Initial V from an Antiphonary

creator: Neri da Rimini

medium: Opaque watercolor, with shell gold and pen and brown ink (recto), pen and brown ink, with opaque watercolor (verso), on parchment

subjects:
Tempera
Italy
Shells & molluscs
Medieval
Manuscript
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph L. Valentine


title: Panel (From a Skirt)

creator: In the style of Anna Maria Garthwaite (English, 1690–1763)

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by ground weft floats

country: Spitalfields

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spitalfield
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Women artist

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hixon Glore


title: Foliate Dish with Three Feet

date: Song dynasty (960–1279)

medium: Jun ware; stoneware with purple-blue glaze

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Bertha Palmer Thorne


title: Saint Sulpice, Paris: La Grande Tour

creator: Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper


title: St. Julien-le-Pauvre

medium: Etching in black on cream Japanese paper


title: Cour de Commerce, Paris

medium: Etching in black on cream wove paper


title: L'Estacade

medium: Etching in black on cream laid paper


title: The Kite


title: Notre Dame, Paris


title: Tower of St. Germain-des-Prés

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


title: Rue du Chasseur, Rouen

medium: Etching in black on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper (chine collé)


title: The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist

creator: Jean Baptiste Carpeaux

medium: Pen and brown ink on blue laid paper

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

credit_line: Worcester Sketch Fund


title: Les Deux Chaumières


title: St. Ouen, Rouen

medium: Etching in black on Japanese paper


title: Rue des Halles, Vannes, Brittany

medium: Etching in black on buff wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper (chine collé)


title: Little Poigny


title: Landscape, Brittany

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


title: Ruelle du Pêcheur


title: Moulin St. Maurice


title: The Salute

medium: Etching in siena on cream laid paper


title: Idillio, Venezia


title: Emelia, Italy


title: The Dark Canal, Venice


title: The Towers


title: The White Ox


title: Val d'Ema


title: Val d'Arno


title: Santa Maria Formosa, Venice


title: Siena


title: A Tuscan Farm

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


title: Tuscany

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


title: San Gimignano


title: Bologna, Italy


title: The Hill City

medium: Etching in brown on cream laid paper


title: The Ruined Hut

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: End of a Stole

creator: Italy

date: 19th century

medium: textile

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

credit_line: Gift of the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Woman's Long Pao (Formal Domestic Robe)

creator: Manchu

medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; painted details; trimmed with braid of gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, 2:2 twill oblique interlacing; edging and closures: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; body lined with silk, 4:1 satin damask weave; sleeves lined with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Paper (fiber product)
Weaving
Chinese (culture or style)
East asian
Asian
Manchu-style
Costume
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John J. Abbott


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt

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

medium: Silk, compound weave; incomplete pattern

country: Egypt

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Roman period (egyptian)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken


title: Handkerchief

creator: Switzerland

country: Switzerland

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Switzerland
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Accessorie (object genre)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Winston


title: Handkerchief

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Switzerland
Weaving
Accessorie (object genre)
Needlework (visual works)


title: Sheet of Skteches

creator: Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

medium: Etching on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper

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

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Juda and Thamar

creator: Pieter Lastman

credit_line: Stanley Field Endowment


title: Saint Christopher

creator: Guido Reni

medium: Etching on paper

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

credit_line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection


title: Panel (Pillar Design)

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed; painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Block printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving

credit_line: Textile Purchase Fund


title: Panel

medium: Cotton, plain weave, block printed; glazed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Block printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Printed textile


title: Mrs. William Morris Seated in Chair

creator: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

medium: Graphite, with stumping, on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Graphite
England
Stumping
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing technique
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Miniature Perfume Bottle

creator: Fabergé Workshop

date: Late 19th century

medium: Gold, silver, enamel, diamonds, and rubies

country: Saint Petersburg

subjects:
Enamel
Saint petersburg
Gold
Diamond
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barancik


title: Peasant with a Wheelbarrow

creator: Jean François Millet (French, 1814-1875)

medium: Etching and drypoint on ivory wove China paper hinged on two sides to cream wove card

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

credit_line: Gift of Alice H. Brown in memory of Cyrus Hall McCormick


title: Collar and Pair of Cuffs

creator: Belgium

medium: Cotton, "Duchesse" bobbin part lace and "Point de Gaze" needle lace

country: Belgium

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Belgium
Lace - mixed

credit_line: Gift of Tiffany Blake


title: Head of an Old Man, possibly Seneca

creator: Circle of Peter Paul Rubens

medium: Black chalk on cream laid paper

country: Flanders

subjects:
Chalk
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Collar (Made From Cuffs)

creator: France (needlework) and Belgium (lace)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered in back, buttonhole, eyelet, padded overcast, padded satin, and a variety of needle lace filling stitches; edged with cotton, "Valenciennes" bobbin straight lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Needlework - lace
Lace - needle


title: Lace Bobbin

creator: England, Midlands

medium: Turned wood with rose and crystal bead ornament

subjects:
Ornament & design
Bobbin
England
Minerals & gems
Roses
Accessorie (object genre)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer II


title: Fragment

creator: France, probably Jouy-en-Josas

medium: Cotton, plain weave; engraved roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Roller printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Jouy-en-josa

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


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Block printing
Weaving - printed
Jouy-en-josa


title: Handkerchief

creator: Philippines

country: Philippines

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Philippine
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. E. W. Henricks and Louise Henricks Ryan


title: One of a pair of sleeves

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Philippine
Weaving
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in cross stitch

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harold Keele through the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Darning Sampler

creator: England, Germany, or Netherlands

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in darning and cross stitches


title: Darning Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in darning stitch


title: Sampler

creator: France

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with cotton and silk in cross and satin stitch; all edges finished in feathered hem stitches

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


title: Darning Sampler

creator: Germany or Netherlands

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered in cross and darning stitches

country: Germany

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


title: Sampler

creator: Italy or Spain

date: 18th/19th century

medium: Linen, silk, plain weave; embroidered in cross and straight stitches

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


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in cross stitch; all edges finished in feathered hem stitch


title: Censer in the Form of an Ancient Bronze Rectangular Cauldron (Fangding)

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

medium: Nephrite jade

country: China

subjects:
Jade
China
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Vehon


title: La Marchande de Moutarde (The Mustard Seller)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on cream laid paper

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


title: Annie, Seated

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in dark gray ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: The Title Page for 'Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature'

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on blue wove paper

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


title: Landscape with Horses

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

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


title: Greenwich Park

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: Thames Warehouses


title: Nursemaid and Child

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper


title: The Pool

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper


title: Eagle Wharf

medium: Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Wait your turn, Monsieur... I had that first, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Yvonne Möen Cumerford, 1965


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

creator: Hagi school

date: 16th century

medium: Iron

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936


title: Love Scene from the Rasikapriya

medium: Black ink on paper

credit_line: Gift of Richard Ettinghausen, 1976


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Beneath an archway, a groom holds the bridle of a horse shown in profile, facing left, the title page for "Various cavalry exercises" (Diverses exercices de cavalerie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Hurstmonceaux, Sussex

creator: Alfred Capel Cure

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 2009


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: St. Paul

date: late 15th century

medium: Oak, traces of polychromy

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-wood French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Showing Off

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Enrag'd Monster, from "Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds"

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

date: December 8, 1778

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Virgin, Saint Anne & Saint Joachim

creator: School of Nottingham

date: 15th century

medium: Alabaster with paint and gilding

country: British

subjects: Sculpture-stone British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Limestone head of a bearded male with a wreath of leaves

date: late 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Massacre of the Innocents

creator: Karel van Mallery

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Bernardo Daddi

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Ci-devant Occupations; or, Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797. - A Fact!

creator: James Gillray

date: February 20, 1805

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Pin cushion

creator: Johann Jakob Schoap I

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, in memory of Stephen M. Kellen, 2005


title: Trousering

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Piece

date: mid-19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Hasp

medium: Wrought iron

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1949


title: Sword with Scabbard

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Swords

country: Indo-Chinese

subjects: Sword Indo-chinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Ema (Votive Painting) of Chinese Lion and Peony Tree

medium: Ink and color on wood

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan Trees

credit_line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975


title: Count Joseph Borowlaski (1739–1834)

creator: Samuel Percy

medium: Colored wax and glass; frame: wood

credit_line: The Glenn Tilley Morse Collection, Bequest of Glenn Tilley Morse, 1950


title: San li tu

creator: Chongyi Nie

credit_line: Purchased with income from the Jacob S. Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Esarhaddon

medium: Clay

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Page 2 verso, from "Eyn New Kunstlichboich"

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: "Yazdegird I Kicked to Death by the Water Horse", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: [Richard Westmacott]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970


title: Shirasuka,  from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Ipu Hula (gourd drum)

medium: Gourd, tapa cloth, breadfruit gum

country: Hawai'i

subjects: Idiophone-stamping Hawai'i

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, silver, copper

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


title: Targhe ed altri ornati di varie e capricciose invenzioni (Cartouches and other ornaments of various and capricious invention, page 7)

creator: Jacob Floris

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Hammered Silver Spoon

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-implement
Peru; north coast

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


title: Finette

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint in black ink on buff laid paper

country: United States

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

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Thames Police

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: Penny Passengers, Limehouse

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: Venus

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


title: The Little Rotherhithe


title: The Punt

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory wove paper

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


title: The Little Pool


title: Sketching


title: Ponte del Piovan

medium: Etching and drypoint in black ink on off-white Japanese paper

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


title: St. James's Street

medium: Etching in black ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: Hurlingham

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper


title: Little Putney Bridge

medium: Etching and drypoint in black ink on cream laid paper

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


title: The Garden


title: Newspaper-Stall, Rue de Seine

medium: Etching with foul biting in dark brown ink on buff laid paper

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


title: Binding the Hair

medium: Etching with drypoint in black ink on cream laid paper


title: Lobster Pots - Selsea Bill

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


title: The Leeches, Messieurs, the Leeches!

creator: Edmé Jean Pigal (French, 1798-1872)

medium: Lithograph in black with hand-coloring on cream wove paper

country: France

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

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Ira Frank


title: Le Pont Neuf, Paris

creator: Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

medium: Etching in black on chine collé with etched remarque on white wove paper

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


title: Box: Admiral Lord St. Vincent

creator: South Staffordshire, England

medium: Polychrome enamel on copper with metal mounts

country: South Staffordshire

subjects:
Snuff box
South staffordshire
Copper
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Kelvyn G. Lilley gift


title: The Slipper

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

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


title: Alarming and Terrible Flood, Never Before Seen in Guanajuato!

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Photo relief etching with traces of engraving on buff wove paper

country: Mexico

subjects:
Lithograph
Mexico
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Latin american

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, Joseph Brooks Fair and John H. Wrenn Memorial collections


title: Guadalupe Bejarano in the Dungeons of Belén Prison

medium: Relief engraving or photo relief etching on wove paper

subjects:
Relief etching
Mexico
Text
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Latin american


title: Interior of the Collegiate Church of Guadalupe

medium: Photo-relief etching with engraving on tan wove paper

subjects:
Relief etching
Mexico
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Latin american


title: The Escape of Jesus Bruno Martinez from Belen Prison

subjects:
Woodcut
Mexico
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Latin american


title: The Lovely Garbanzo-Sellers as Calaveras

medium: Relief etching on red wove paper

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: The Calavera of the Penitentiary Has Just Arrived. Don't Shrivel Up, Old Skins, Here is Rafael Buendia

medium: Photo relief etching on green wove paper


title: Details of the Latest Execution


title: Bullfight Dice-Game

medium: Photo relief etching on wove paper


title: Calavera of the Pilgrims that Have Died Walking the Streets and Are Now at Rest

medium: Relief engraving or photo relief etching on red paper

subjects:
Woodcut
Mexico
Text
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Latin american


title: Pair of Gloves

creator: England

medium: Leather, cut, pricked and slashed; silk satin appliqué; gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk couching; gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk woven fringe; balls covered with gilt-metal-wrapped-silk; ribbons of silk, plain weave edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk woven fringe; lining: silk, plain weave; interlining: linen, plain weave

country: England

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Frances G. Lee Foundation


title: New Oracle or the Book of the Future (Nuevo Oraculo o sea el Libro del Porvenir)

medium: Book with relief etching in red, one folded with letterpress in black, on tan wove paper

subjects:
Book
Mexico
Paper (fiber product)
Library/archive
Print and drawing
Latin american


title: Woman with Jug on Head

creator: Nevers, France

medium: Glass; lampwork (verre de Nevers), metal armature

subjects:
Ornament & design
Decorative object/ornament
France
Lampworking
Glass
Lampwork
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: Nun

date: 18th century


title: Dog


title: Monkey


title: The Custody is as Barbarous as the Crime ("The Little Prisoner")

creator: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

medium: Etching and burin on cream laid paper

country: Spain

subjects:
Etching
Spain
War
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Pigeon Tureen

creator: Strasbourg Pottery Manufactory (French, 1721–1781)

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (faience)

country: Strasbourg

subjects:
Tin-glazed ware
Strasbourg
Earthenware
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund


title: J. Becquet, Sculptor

medium: Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Given in memory of John V. Farwell by Hermon Dunlap Smith


title: Pigeon Tureen

creator: Strasbourg Pottery Manufactory (French, 1721-1781)


title: Pillow

creator: France

medium: Cotton, plain weave; quilted; cotton batting; lined with cotton, plain weave

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland Memorial Fund


title: Cleopatra

creator: Jacopo de' Barbari

medium: Engraving on cream laid paper

country: Italy

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Sampler

creator: Spain

date: 19th century

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Sampler
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; emboidered with linen yarns in back, chain, double knot, and running stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Needlework (visual works)
Sampler


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work and pulled threadwork; embroidered with linen yarn in buttonhole, hem, interlocking, loop, overcast, and Russian overcast stitches, overcasr bars; embroidered with silk floss and cotton floss in crested chain variations, running and satin stitches

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


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work; embroidered with cotton yarns in buttonhole, darning, hem, Italian hem, interlocking overcast, serpentine hem, and square openwork, stitches; coral knots

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Corals & anemones
Needlework (visual works)
Sampler


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton and linen, plain weave; embroidered in cross and darning stitches


title: Sampler


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with cotton yarns


title: Sampler

creator: Southern Germany

medium: Wool, plain weave; embroidered with silk

country: Southern Germany

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Southern germany
Wool (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Sampler


title: Darning Sampler

creator: Netherlands

medium: Seven squares of darning in colored silk on white linen

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Netherland
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Sampler
Silk (fiber)


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in cross, back, Algerian eye, long and short stitches

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


title: Handkerchief

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

credit_line: Gift of Georganna Thomas Ives


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt

date: 4th-5th century

medium: Linen and wool, tapestry weave

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Coptic (historically identified as)
Weaving
Roman period (egyptian)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph L. Valentine


title: Louis XVI

creator: Charles Clément Bervic (French, 1756-1822)

date: 1790, printed after 1815

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Sanford Otis


title: Teapot in the Form of a Squirrel

creator: England, Staffordshire

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

country: Staffordshire

subjects:
Teapot
Staffordshire
Stoneware
Teaware
Salt-glazed stoneware
European decorative arts
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson


title: Fragment

creator: Greece, Epirus Province, Ionian Island

date: 17th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in running (pattern darning), satin, split, and stem stitches

country: Greece

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Greece
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: The Death of the Vagabond

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Etching, aquatint and drypoint on cream wove paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Frank B. Hubachek


title: Fish Platter

creator: Théodore Haviland

medium: Porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding

subjects:
Fish
Vessel for serving food
France
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Dish (vessel)
European decorative arts
Ceramic

credit_line: Dr. Victor Levine gift in memory of his wife Wilhelmena Warner Levine


title: Paperweight

creator: Baccarat Glassworks (Cristalleries de Baccarat)

medium: Glass

country: Lunéville

subjects:
Paperweight
Lunéville
Lampworking
Glass
Lampwork
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Rubloff


title: Sampler Fragment

creator: United States

medium: Linen, plain weave; cross stitch with hemstitched hem; top edge is cut

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework (visual works)
Sampler

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Meyer Rosenfield


title: Fragment

date: 3rd/4th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Sonnenschein