title: Courtesans of the Matsubaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho

medium: Color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book


title: Spring Flowers: Violets and Dandelions, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1

medium: Color woodblock print; single-page illustration cut from a book

country: Japan

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

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: Frederick W. Gookin Collection


title: Courtesans of the Kagemanjiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1

subjects:
Print
Japan
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art


title: Courtesans of the Kadotamaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1

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


title: Courtesans of the Asahimaruya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Takeya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Gakuiseya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Ogiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Matsuneya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Summer Flowers: Irises and Water Plantains, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Chojiya, from the book "A Comparison of Beauties of the Green Houses: A Mirror of Their Forms (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Chojiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Wakanaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Yadaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Tamaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of the Kadotsutaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1


title: Courtesans of Oebuji, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Autumn Flowers: Peonies and Bellflowers, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. ２


title: Courtesans of Kiriya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of Shin Kanaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of Kado Daikokuya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of Maruebiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of Okamoto, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of Yotsumaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of Tsuruya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of Otawaraya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of the Nakaomiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of the Kadokaneya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of the Echizenya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of the Kiribishiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of the Maruya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of the Yamashiroya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of the Obishiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Courtesans of the Komatsuya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Four courtesans of various houses, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 3


title: The Gate of the New Yoshiwara, frontispiece from the third volume of "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)"

medium: Color woodblock print; illustration cut from a book


title: Courtesans of the Okaneya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: Five Courtesans of Various Houses, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 3


title: Courtesans of Matsubaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Hangaku Gozen Breaking Down the Gate in the Play Wada-gassen Onna Maizuru (The Wada Conflict: A Woman's "Maizuru"), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month, 1777

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Actors Nakamura Sukegorô II as Sasano Sangobei (Left) and Ôtani Hiroji III as Satsuma Gengobei (Right) in “Green Willow Soga of Erotic Design” (“Iro moyô aoyagi Soga”)

creator: Rantokusai Shundô

date: About 1775

medium: Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych


title: The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Osada no Zenjo Kagemune in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu (First Performance Day of the Izu Calendar), Performed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1772

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I


title: The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII, Ichimura Kamezo I as Wankyu, and Nakamura Kiyosaburo I as Matsuyama in the play "Mitsugimono Irifune Nagoya," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the seventh month, 1750

creator: Torii Kiyonobu II

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: The Actors Bando Hikosaburo II as Watanabe no Tsuna and Matsumoto Tomijuro as Hakamadare no Yasusuke in the play "Furitsumu Hana Nidai Genji," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1765

creator: Kitao Shigemasa


title: The actor Kataoka Nizaemon Vll as Iyo no Taro in the play "Seiwa Nidai Oyose Genji," performed at the Miyako Theater in the eleventh month, 1796

creator: Utagawa Kunimasa

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Night Rain of Genjo (Genjo no yau), from the series "Parodies of Eight Scenes from Noh Chants (Furyu utai hakkei)"

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: A Fan Suggesting a Dispersed Storm (Sensu no seiran) from the series "Eight Fashionable Scenes of the Parlor (Furyu zashiki hakkei)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; koban


title: Cherry Blossom Viewing (Shunchaku hana no shizuku)

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Print
Asian art


title: The Fourth Month, from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: A Poster for the Ichimura Theatre (Ichimuraza tsuji banzuke)

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; o-oban, sumizuri-e


title: A Playbill for the Ichimura Theater

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Nagoya Osan in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

medium: Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)


title: An Actor as Senzai, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"

medium: Color woodblock print; page from illustrated book


title: The Annoucement, page from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: An Actor as Okina, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: An Actor as Sanbaso, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: Actor's dressing table, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho


title: The Actor Ichikawa Tsunazo, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Sawamura Tanosuke I, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Anegawa Shinshiro II, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Ichikawa Somegoro, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Ichikawa Shoemon, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Ichikawa Kodanji II, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Sakata Hangoro II, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Nakajima Kanzaemon III, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Nakamura Utaemon I, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Ichikawa Haruzo II, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Ichikawa Raizo II, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Chinese Immortal Seiobo (C: Xi Wang Mu, Queen of the West)

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Actor Arashi Hinaji, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actor Nakajima Mioemon II, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"


title: The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Hata no Daizen Taketora Disguised as the Yakko Matahei (right), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Umegae Disguised as the Poem-Diviner Omatsu (left), in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Ichikawa Danjuro V

creator: Attributed to Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro II as Yoemon and Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Kasane, His Wife


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Momonoi Wakasanosuke Yasuchika (?) in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Fifth Month, 1771 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Sakai-cho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1771


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as the Hairdreser Komagata Ikkaku in the Play Fuji no Yuki Kaikei Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1770


title: The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (right), and Nakamura Nakazo I as Kakogawa Honzo (left), in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1771


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as the Boathouse Man Kurofune Chuemon in the Play Sakai-cho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1771

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Raizo II as Murakami Hikoshiro Yoshiteru in the Play Oyoroi Ebido Shinozuka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Izu no Jiro Disguised as Kemmaku no Sabu in the Play Edo-zakura Sono Omokage, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1769


title: The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Sakura-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1772

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of a multisheet print


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Prince Takahiro in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as the Guard Kuriu Zaemon Yorikata in the Play Azuma no Mori Sakae Kusunoki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779


title: The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Yawata no Saburo (right), and Otani Tomoemon I as the Yakko Emohei (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; diptych; illustrations from the later edition of the book Ehon Butai Ogi


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II as Omi no Kotoda (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; probably one sheet of a five-sheet print


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Kichisaburo, Temple Page of Kichijo-ji, in the Play Sono Kyodai Fuji no Sugatami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1776

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


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Lady Manko (Manko Gozen) (?) in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1780 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo (?) in the Play Wada Sakamori Eiga Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1773 (?)

subjects:
Print
Japan
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)


title: The Warrior Ômori Hikoshichi Carrying a Demon on His Back

creator: Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

date: About 1772

medium: Color woodblock print; chûban


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Fuwa Banzaemon in the Play Keisei Nagoya Obi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1771


title: Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô V as Watanabe Kiou Takiguchi and Nakamura Nakazô I as Taira no Kiyomori in the “Shibaraku” scene from “Forest of the Nue Monster: Target of the Eleventh Month” (“Nue no Mori Ichiyô no Mato”)

date: About 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as the Shinto Priest Goinosuke Disguised as the Spirit of a White Heron, in the Play Sakikaese Yuki no Miyoshino, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Chichibu no Shigetada


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Iba no Juzo (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Maruya Gorohachi in the Play Kotobuki Banzei Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1783

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; center sheet of triptych


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Asahina no Sabura in the Play Tsukisenu Haru Hagoromo Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1777


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Shii no Shosho Okinori in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776


title: The Actor Segawa Yujiro I in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kudo Kanaishi (?) in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1772 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of a multisheet composition


title: The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Soga no Juro Sukenari (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Goro Tokimune (left), in Komuso Attires, in the Play Sakaicho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1771


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Miyagino Disguised as a Hairdresser in the Play Kosode-gura no Tekubari, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1772 (?)


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Aigo no Waka in the Play Chigo Sakura Jusan Kane, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Godai Saburo Masazumi Disguised as Rokuju-rokubu in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych (?)


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Lady Hangaku (Hangaku Gozen) in the Play Wada-gassen Onna Maizuru, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1777


title: The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Satsuma Gengobei (right), and Nakamura Nakazo I as Sasano Sangobei (left)


title: The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Onoe no Mae in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as Taira no Tomomori in the Play Yoshitsune Sembon-zakura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1777


title: Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Itsukushima Tennyo in the Kabuki Play “Tokimekuya o-Edo no hatsuyuki”


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kudo Suketsune in the Play Kaido Ichi Yawaragi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1778


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Watanabe no Tsuna in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as the Yakko Matahei in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Sagami Jiro Disguised as Ambaiyoshi Gorohachi in the Play Oyoroi Ebido Shinozuka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as Kamakura no Gongoro Kagemasa, in the Fifth Scene of the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori (A Dandyish Brocade: Opposing Warriors), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych or triptych, or center sheet of triptych


title: The Actor Ikushima Daikichi III as the Courtesan Naniwazu in the Play Saki Masuya Ume no Kachidoki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Izutsu Onnanosuke (?) in the Play Keisei Tsuki no Miyako (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Ninth Month, 1775 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Yakko Matsueda Sakinosuke in the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1772


title: The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as Oiso no Tora (?) in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the First Month, 1775 (?)


title: The Actor Nakamura Riko I as the Courtesan Wakamatsu (?) in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1773 (?)


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Akugenda Yoshira Disguised as a Pilgrim, in the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as an Itinerant Monk in the Play Hikitsurete Yagoe Taiheiki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776


title: The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Tonase in the Play Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1780


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Taira no Masakado Disguised as the Pilgrim Junjo in the Play Masakado Kammuri no Hatsuyuki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Oishi (?) in the Play Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura (?), Performed at the Nakamora Theater (?) in the Ninth Month, 1780 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Kudo Suketsune Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1792


title: The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I in an Unidentified Role

date: early 1780s


title: The Actor Nakamura Sukegoro II as Kaminari Shokuro in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1780

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


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ashiya Doman in the Play Kikyo-zome Onna Urakata, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1776


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Takechi Jubei Mitsuhide in the Play Shusse Taiheiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1775


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Akoya in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1779

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo Disguised as a Beggar, in the Play Tsukisenu Haru Hagoromo Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1777


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Tsukisayo in the Play Gohiiki Nenne Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1779


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kakogawa Honzo, from the play "Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1780


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kakogawa Honzo in the Play Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1780


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Abe no Sadato in the Play Oshu Adachi ga Hara, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1777


title: The Actor Otani Tomoemon I as Kajino Choan (?) in the Play Hono Nitta Daimyojin (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1777


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III in an Unidentified Role


title: Scene at the Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine, from Act One of Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), from the series "Chushingura Juichimai-Tsuzuki (Set of Eleven Sheets Illustrating Chushingura)"

date: c. late 1770s


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

medium: Woodblock print; hosoban, keyblock proof impression

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Ashikaga Motouji Disguised as Katagiri Yashichi in the Play Oyoroi Ebido Shinozuka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)


title: Courtesans of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter, from the Series Seiro Kokon Hokku Awase

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Hige no Ikyu in the Play Nanakusa Yosooi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1782

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


title: Act Ten: The Amakawaya from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1779


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as a Buddhist Monk in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1783

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych (?)


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Makino Arataro Tokizumi in the Play Hana no O-Edo Masakado Matsuri, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1789


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Hakamadare Yasusuke or Watanabe no Tsuna (?) in the Play Shintenno Tonoi no Kisewata (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1781 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Prince Koretaka Disguised as the Courier Izutsu Chuji, in the Play Yamato Kano Ariwara Keizu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1781


title: The Actor Nakamura Kojuro VI in a Daisho no Mai (Sword Dance), in the Play Gion Nyogo, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Tenth Month, 1786


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Kobayashi no Asahina Disguised as a Bird-Catcher in the Play Edo no Haru Meisho Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1773

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


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Lady Manko (Manko Gozen) in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1780

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of triptych


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Sword Master Takuma Genryu (?) in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1789 (?)


title: Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô IV as Taira no Tomomori Disguised as Tokaiya Gimpei in “Yoshitsune’s Thousand Cherry Trees” (“Yoshitsune sembon-zakura”)

date: About 1767

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


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as an Incarnation of the Dragon King in the Play Saki Masuya Ume on Kachidoki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in te Eleventh Month, 1778

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition


title: The Actors Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (right), and Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as Yatsurugi Zaemon (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Hige no Ikyu in the Play Sakai-cho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1771


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as a White Fox Disguised as Ukishima Daihachi in the Play Shinasadame Soma no Mombi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1770


title: Actors Nakamura Nakazô I and Ichikawa Komazô I in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”)

date: About 1768


title: Actor Ichikawa Danzô III as Narukami in “Bird of the Capital: Komachi of the East” (“Miyakodori azuma Komachi”)


title: The Actor Nakamura Utaemon I as Kudo Suketsune Disguised as a Beggar in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1769


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Moshio in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as the Woodcutter Gankutsu no Gorozo in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kudo Suketsune (?) in the Play Iro Moyo Aoyagi Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1775 (?)


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Nagasaki Kageyuzaemon Disguised as Gorohachi the Sake Seller, in the Play Hikitsurete Yagoe Taiheiki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776


title: The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Abbot Saimyo-ji Tokiyori, Disguised as a Monk, in the Joruri "Onna Hachi no Ki" (A Female Version of "The Potted Trees") from Part Two of the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai (A Woman as Master: The World of the First Snow), Performed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1773


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Lady Hangaku (Hangaku Gozen) in the Play Wada-gassen Onna Maizuru, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1777


title: The Actor Bando Sampachi I as Yawata no Saburo (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; probably one sheet of a five-sheet print


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Dozaburo (?) in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the First Month, 1775 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as Sanada no Yoichi (?) in the Play Sanada no Yoichi Banjaku no Iezuto (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1767 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as Fuwa Banazemon in the Play Date Moyo Kumo ni Inazuma, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Tenth Month, 1768


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Matsuo-maru in the Play Ayatsuri Kabuki Ogi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1768


title: The Actor Nakamura Sukegoro II in an Unidentified Role


title: Memorial Portrait of Actor Ichikawa Ebizô II (Danjûrô II) as a Peddler of the Medicine Uirô

date: About 1768–70

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


title: Actor Ôtani Hiroji III Striking a Stage Pose before a Stone Gateway


title: The Actor Arashi Otohachi I as Numataro Kyusei Disguised as the Burglar Ipponzaemon in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Kan Shojo in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1768


title: Actor Ôtani Hiroji III Possibly as Akaneya Hanshichi in “Snow on Mt. Fuji: The Soga Vendetta” (“Fuji no yuki kaikei Soga”)


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II as an Outlaw

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (?)


title: The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Soga no Juro Sukenari (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?)


title: The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Kameo (right), and Sakata Sajuro I as Ario (left), in the Play Hime Komatsu Ne no Hi Asobi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1768


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Goro Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Sakai-cho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1771


title: The Actors Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (right), and Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the Buddhist Deity Fudô in “Rethatched Roof: The Moon Also Shines over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District” (“Fuke Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara”)

creator: Attributed to Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

date: About 1771


title: Actor Ichikawa Danzô III as Shôki the Demon-Queller in “Dandyish Design: Lightning Amid Clouds” (“Date moyô kumo ni imazuma”)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hannya no Goro in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776


title: The Actor Nakamura Noshio I in an Unidentified Role


title: A Pilgrim Praying through the Night to the Buddha (kannenbutsu) is Startled by a Ghostly Head Lying on the Snow-Covered Ground


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as Matsuo-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1776


title: The Actor Otani Tomoemon I as Kawatabiya Mombei in the Play Oyoroi Ebido Shinozuka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Ko no Moronao in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1779


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Onmaya Kisanda Dressed as Kakubei the Lion Dancer (Kakubei-jishi) (right) and Segawa Kikunojo III as Shizuka Gozen (left), in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune (Heavenly Child—The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV Doing a Quick Change Between the Roles of Sadakuro and Yoichibei, in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Third Month, 1781


title: The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Goddes Benzaiten of Enoshima in the Play Onno Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773


title: The Actor Otani Tomoemon I as Kasahari Hokkyo in the Play Kazoe Uta Ta Ue Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1776


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kudo Sukestune (?) in the Play Kokimazete Takao Soga (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1778


title: The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo in the Play Tsukisenu Haru Hagoromo Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in theThird Month, 1777


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Abe no Sadato (?) in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1778 (?)


title: The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Kureha (?) in the Play Shusse Taiheiki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1775 (?)


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1779


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Chinese Hero Kan'u in the Play Hatsu Akebono Niwatori Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1772


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arakawa Taro in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the Pilgrim Kakuzan in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Soga no Goro Tokimune Disguised as Agemaki no Sukeroku in the Play Sukeroku Yukari no Edo-zakura, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1782

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a pentaptych (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Sakura-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1776


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Segawa Kitsuji III as Murasame in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of a multisheet composition


title: The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as a Dragon Maiden Disguised a Tamanami, in the Play Oyafune Taiheiki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775


title: The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Lady Manko (Manko Gozen) (?) in the Play Soga Musume Choja (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1784 (?)


title: Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Hige no Ikyû in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”)

date: About 1764

medium: Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as the Thunder God, an Incarnation of Sugawara Michizane, in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1776


title: The Actor Yoshizawa Iroha I as Tamamo no Mae (?) in the Play Sakuya Kono Hana no Kaomise (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1776 (?)


title: The Actor Bando Matataro IV as Bando Taro in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych (?)


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Agemaki in the Play Sakai-cho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1771


title: The Actor Otani Tomoemon I as Otsuma in the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1781

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Watanabe Kiou Takiguchi in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ogata no Saburo Disguised as Matsuura Saemon in the Play Ichi no Tomi Tsuki no Kaomise, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Matsuo-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1779


title: The Actor Azuma Tozo III in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Onmaya Kisanda Disguised as the Lion Dancer Kakubei in the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; one sheet of a four-sheet composition


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox from Mt. Ubagadake in the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kudo Saemon Suketsune (?) in the Play Sakai-cho Soga Nendaiki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1771 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Moriya no Daijin Disguised as Rokuju-rokubu in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1773


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Kongara Doji in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Hata no Daizen Taketora Disguised as Shikishima Wakahei in the Play Juni-hitoe Komachi-zakura, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Gokuin Sen'emon in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1780


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as the Palanquin Bearer Gohei in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780


title: The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Asahina Saburo in the Play Iro Maki-e Soga no Sakazuki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1773


title: The Actor Nakajima Mihoemon II as Bomon no Saisho Kiyotada in the Play Oyafune Taiheiki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Hito-maru Disguised as the Courtesan Chiyozaki, in the Play Kuruwa no Hana Katsuragi no Kane, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third Month, 1775


title: The Actor Nakamura Juzo II as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as an Ascetic Monk, in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Kusunoki Uraminosuke Disguised as a Male Fox from Tsukamoto (?), in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1786 (?)


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Retired Emperor Sutoku in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780


title: The Actor Nakamura Juzo II as Asahara Hachiro Disguised as the Servant of a Princely Family, in the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Kagekiyo Disguised as Omi Yawatanosuke in the Play Haru wa Soga Akebono-zoshi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1772

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Takenuki Goro in the Play Eho Soga Nen-nen-goyomi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1771


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Watanabe Kiou Takiguchi (?) in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1770 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; illustration cut from Ehon Zoku Butai Ogi (1778)


title: The Actor Kasaya Matakuro II as the Boatman Rokuzo in an Unidentified Play, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Fifth Month, 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; illustration from the later edition of the book Ehon Butai Ogi


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775


title: The Actor Nakamura Juzo II as Yushichi (?) in the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1772 (?)


title: The Actor Nakamura Juzo II as Kajiwara Genta Kagetoki in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of a multisheet composition (?)


title: The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as the Hairdresser Obana Saizaburo in the Play Koi Musume Mukashi Hachijo, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1776


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo in the Play Kite Hajime Hatsugai Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1774


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Matsuo-maru (?) in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Fourth Month, 1779 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as Tonase in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Third Month, 1781


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Nagao Terutora in the Play Kuruma-gakari Tekuda no Gumbai, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1783


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hanakawado no Sukeroku in the Play Nanakusa Yosooi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1782


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as the Hairdresser Jirokichi in the Play Shida Choja-bashira, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1781


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the courtesan Agemaki in the play "Sukeroku Yukari no Hatsu-zakura," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1776

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of hosoban triptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in an Unidentified Role

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Oboshi Yuranosuke in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1783


title: Taira no Atsumori Returning to Shore to Confront Kumagai no Jirô Naozane

medium: Color woodblock print; chûban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Shira-giku, a Temple Page, In the Play Haru wa Soga Akebono-zoshi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1772


title: "I": Coming of Age, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

medium: Color woodblock print; koban


title: "Mu," page from "Picture Book of the Music of Pines Trees (Ehon matsu no shirabe)"

medium: Color woodblock print; koban; page from illustrated book


title: "Ni": Akutagawa, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ro": Seaweed, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

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


title: "Wa": Young Grass, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

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


title: "Ho": Yatsuhashi Bridge in Mikawa Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "U": Narihira Presents a Chancellor with a Model of a Pheasant, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ra": Narihira Requests a Painting from a Former Lover, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Re": The Imperial Huntsman, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ku," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "No," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Shi," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Me," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ko," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ki," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: Americans on an Outing (Amerikajin yuko no zu)

creator: Utagawa Yoshikazu

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Five Men Doing the Work of Ten Bodies (Gonin jushin no hataraki)

creator: Utagawa Yoshifuji


title: Among the Five Nations: Americans (Gokakoku no uchi, Amerikajin)


title: View of Miyozaki in Yokohama (Miyozaki Yokohama ichiran)

creator: Utagawa Yoshimori

medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych


title: Sketch of a Copperplate Print of the City of Washington (Amerika shu no uchi washintonfu no kei doban no utsushi)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: North America (Kita Amerika shu)

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

medium: Color woodblock print; oban (part of a triptych)


title: Arrival and Departure of an American Steamship (Amerikakoku jokisha orai)


title: Woman holding puppet of actor Onoe Kikugoro III as Gokuin Sen'emon

creator: Utagawa Kuniyasu

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet from oban pentaptych (another sheet: 1926.766)


title: Woman holding puppet of actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Karigane Bunshichi

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet from oban pentaptych (another sheet: 1926.767)


title: English Watching Descending Geese at Yoshida Bridge (Yoshida-bashi no rakugan, Igirisujin) , from the series "Eight Views of Yokohama in Musashino Province (Bushu Yokohama hakkei no uchi)"


title: English (Igirisujin), from the series "A Collection of Various Countries (Bankoku zukushi)"


subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: France (Furansukoku), from the Countries of Europe (Yoroppa-shu no uchi)


title: Dutchman Strolling (Orandajin yuko)


title: Illustration of English People (Igirisujin no zu)

creator: Utagawa Yoshitoyo


title: Portrait of Americans: Oven for Breadmaking (Amerika-jin no zu, pansei no kamato)


title: Illustration of a Dutchman (Orandajin no zu)


title: Russian (Oroshiajin), from the series "People of the Five Nations (Gokakoku no uchi)"


title: Merchants of Yokohama: French Woman on Horseback (Yokohama shokan, Furansujin umanori no zu)

creator: Utagawa Sadahide


title: Banquet at a Foreign Merchant House in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shoka shuen no zu)


title: Holland (Oranda koku), from the series "People of the Five Nations (Gokakoku jinbutsu zue)"


title: Russians (Roshiajin), from the series "People of the Five Nations (Gokakoku no uchi)"

creator: Utagawa Kunihisa II


title: Island of Little People (Kobitojima)


title: French Woman Admiring Goldfish at a Shop in Yokohama (Yokohama no shokan ni Furansujin kingyo wo moteasobu zu)


title: French photographer


title: Dutch (Orandajin), from the series "People of the Five Nations (Gokakoku no uchi)"


title: True Drawing of a Newly Arrived Camel (Shinto rakuda shashin)


title: French (Furansu)


title: Foreigners Drinking Wine (Gaikokujin shuen no zu)


title: Holland (Oranda koku)


title: Americans Baking Bread (Amerikajin pan wo yaku zu)


title: England (Igirisu), from the Countries of Europe (Yoroppa-shu no uchi)


title: English officer and soldiers


title: Russia (Oroshia koku), from the Countries of Asia (Ajia shu no uchi)


title: Dutch Couple Drinking Wine (Orandajin sakamori)

medium: Color woodblock print


title: True Picture of the French (Shosha Furansujin)


title: Chinese from Nanjing (Shinkoku Nankin)


title: French in Miyozakimachi (Furansujin, Miyozakimachi), from the series "Famous Places in Yokohama (Yokohama meisho)"


title: Dutch Ships Entering the Port of the Island of Rhodes (Rokosuto minato Oranda fune nyushin no zu)

creator: Utagawa Kunitora

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Ships & the sea
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Sales Room at a Foreign Merchant Shop in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan uriba no zu)

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Preparing Meals in a Foreign Residence (Ijin yashiki ryori no zu)


title: Chinese Man from Nanking Admiring a Fan (Shincho Nankinjin kansho Koshu ogi no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"


title: American Woman Playing an Accordion (Amerika nyokan akodeon wo hiku no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"


title: A Foreign Camera (Gaikoku shashinkyo no zu)


title: Foreign Children at Play (Gaikoku kodomo yugi no zu)


title: American Merchant Traveling in Yokohama (Yokohama torai Amerika shonin ryoko no zu)


title: Foreigner Caring for Her Children (Gaikokujin kodomo choai no zu)


title: Russian's Love for a Lady (Oroshiyajin fujin wo aisu)


title: Russians (Oroshiajin)


title: Dutch Woman Making a Toast to Her Children (Oranda fujin kyosho aijido no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"


title: Foreigner Checking Documents at a Merchant House in Yokohama (Yokohama shoka komojin sho mitomu no zu)


title: Russians Drawn from Life (Oroshiajin no sho utsushi)


title: Russians raising sheep for wool (Roshiajin rashamen kau no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"


title: Englishmen (Igirisujin)


title: King of Italy (Itaria kokuo), from the series "People of Barbarian Nations (Bankoku jinbutsu zue)"

creator: Ichieisai Yoshitsuya


title: Foreigners from Five Nations at a Banquet (Gokakoku ijin shuen no zu)

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych


title: The Port of London, England (Igirisu Rondon no kaiko), from the series "Collection of Scenic Places in Foreign Lands (Bankoku meisho zukushi no uchi)"


title: Picture of Steam Locomotives Traveling (Jokisha rikudo tsuko no zu)


title: The Great Harbor in London, England (Egirisu, Rondon taiko)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)


title: A Prosperous American Merchant Building in Yokohama (Yokohama asanban shokan hanei no zu)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige III


title: Vehicles on the Streets of Tokyo (Tokyo orai kuruma zukushi)


title: Upper Floor of the Gankiro in Yokohama (Yokohama Gankiro age)

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych


title: Panoramic View of the Pleasure Quarters in Yokohama, Kanagawa (Kanagawa Yokohama hanakuruwa no kokei)


title: Picture of the Steam Engine Railway in Yatsuyama, Tokyo (Tokyo Yatsuyama shita kaigan jokisha tetsudo no zu)


title: England (Igirisu koku)


title: Foreign Mercantile House in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan)


title: The Interior of the Gankiro in Yokohama (Yokohama Gankiro mikomi no zu)


title: Paris, France (Furansu Parisu no fu), from the series "Collection of Scenic Places in Foreign Lands (Bankoku meisho zukushi no uchi)"


title: Lord Minamoto Yoritomo Captures Takadate Castle in His Conquest of Mutsu Province (Minamoto Yoritomo ko Oshu seibatsu Takadachi no shojo o koraku su), and View of the Coast of Mutsu Province (Oshu kaigan ichiran)

creator: Utagawa Kuniteru II (Kunitsuna II)


title: Interior of an American Steamship (Amerikakoku jokisen-chu no zu)


title: True View of the Foreign Buildings along the Waterfront Seen from the Yokohama Wharves (Yokohama hatoba yori kaigandori ijinkan no shinzu)

medium: Color woodblock print; two sheets of oban triptych


title: True Image of a Giant Elephant (Taizo shasei)

creator: Utagawa Yoshikata


title: Residence of French Merchant at Port of Yokohama (Yokohama ko Furansu shokan no zu)


title: Wreatler overthrowing Frenchman

creator: Ochiai Yoshiiku


title: Picture of Large Elephant from India (Tenjiku hakurai dai zo no shashin), An Attraction at Ryogoku in the Eastern Capital (Toto Ryogoku mimono)


title: Arrival of the Europeans: The Great Elephant (Yoroppajin torai, Daizo no zu)


title: Illustration of Elephant from India On Display at Hirokoji in Ryogoku (Tenjiku no zo kotabi Ryogoku Hirokoji ni oite misemono kogyo no zu)


title: England (Igirusu)


title: The Great Elephant from a Foreign Land (Ikoku watari dai zo no zu)

creator: Utagawa Yoshiharu


title: English Woman, Chinese Dog, and Sheep (Eikoku fujin, karainu, rashiyamen), from the series "People of the Five Nations (Gokakoku jinbutsu zue)"


title: Kites of Fukuroi and Distant View of Akiba in Totomi Province (Enshu Akiba enkei Fukuroi tako), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)"


title: China and Russia (Nankin, Oroshiya)


title: Russian and China (Roshia koku fu Nankin), from the series "People of the Five Nations (Gokakoku jinbutsu zue)"


title: Foreign merchant house


title: Curio Shop (Karamono ten no zu), from the series "Pictures of Goods for Sale at Yokohama (Yokohama urimono zue)"


title: Two-Handed Sword

creator: German

date: mid–16th century

medium: Steel, leather, and buckram

country: Germany

subjects:
Edged weapon-sword
Germany
Steel
Iron alloy
Metal
Inorganic material
Arms
Arms and armor

credit_line: George F. Harding Collection


title: Two-Handed Sword

creator: Probably German

medium: Steel, wood, and leather

country: East Germany

subjects:
Edged weapon-sword
East germany
Steel
Iron alloy
Metal
Inorganic material
Arms
Arms and armor


title: Horse Headstall

creator: Artist unknown (Navajo, Diné)

medium: Silver and leather

country: New Mexico

subjects:
Headpiece (animal equipment)
New mexico
Horse
Ornament
Silver (color)
Silver
Navajo
American decorative arts
Leather
Art of the america
Dine
America
Native american
Native north american
Decorative arts
Arts of the america

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Muriel Kallis Newman in honor of Kathy Cottong, equestrian and Director of the Arts Club


title: Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

creator: Félicie de Fauveau (French, 1801–1886)

medium: Marble

country: France

subjects:
Statuette
France
Saint
Woman
Crown
Flower
Floral
Floral motif
Foliage
Christian subject
Christianity
Devotion
Religion
Religious
Religious figure
Nineteenth century
Carving
Marble
Sculpture technique
Sculpting
Stone
Rock
Metamorphic rock
Inorganic material
French
Sculpture

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock


title: L'Amazone blessée

creator: Jean-François-Théodore Gechter (French, 1795–1844)

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Bronze
France
Woman
Animal
Nude
Arrow
Horse
Sculpture technique
Nineteenth century
Sculpture
Figure
French
Statue
Statuette
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Metal
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal
Casting (process)
Firing (heating)
Model-making
Sculpting

credit_line: Gift of Sylvain Bellenger


title: Jeanne d'Arc

creator: Antonin Mercié (French, 1845–1916)

date: Modeled about 1906

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Bust/head
France
Portraits: female subject
Armor
Laurel wreath
Martyr
Portrait
Portraits: french subject
Woman
Bronze
Casting (process)
Nineteenth century
Copper alloy
Nonferrous metal
Metal
Inorganic material
Sculpture
French
Gilding
Gold
Firing (heating)
Sculpture technique


title: Tobias and the Angel

creator: Italian

medium: Medium unknown

country: Italy

subjects:
Statuette
Italy
Religion
Angel
Biblical
Christian subject
Christianity
Man
Religious figure
Religious scene
Sculpting
Sculpture
Italian
Sculpture technique

credit_line: Decorative Arts Fund


title: Armchair

creator: Attributed to Thomas Chippendale

medium: Giltwood and modern upholstery

country: England

subjects:
Furniture
England
Gold leaf
Upholstering
Chair

credit_line: Gift of Kay and Frederick Krehbiel


title: Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

creator: India

medium: Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

country: India

subjects:
Painting
India
Portraits
Animal
Paper (fiber product)
Mughal
Gold
Ink
Watercolor
Jahangir
Asian art

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Landscape

creator: Unkoku Toeki

date: Early 17th century

medium: Pair of hanging scrolls with 1958.578; ink on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Arenberg


title: Landscapes

medium: Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper


title: Summer, from The Four Seasons

creator: Jan Saenredam

medium: Engraving on cream laid paper

country: Netherlands

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

credit_line: Gift of Langdon Pearse


title: Cow Drinking

creator: Nicolaes Berchem

medium: Etching on paper

country: Holland

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

credit_line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection


title: Album Page with Calligraphic Specimen

creator: Attributed to Mir 'Ali Heravi (Persian 1465-about 1550)

date:
First Half of the 16th century (calligraphy);
17th/18th century (borders)

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

subjects:
Miniature painting
India
Mughal
Paper (fiber product)
Indian (south asian)
South asian
Asian
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Everett McNear


title: Chained Prisoners are Brought Before a King, a scene from the Gulistan of Sa'di

creator: Uzbekistan

medium: Opaque watercolor with gold on paper

country: Bukhara

subjects:
Gouache
Bukhara
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art


title: Old Man Attended by Visitors

date: 16th Century

subjects:
Miniature painting
Bukhara
Painting
Asian art


title: Judge (Qazi) of Hamadan in a Drunken State, a scene from the Gulistan of Sa'di

date: about 1550


title: Fragment (Skirt)

creator: Designed by Bertha Honoré Palmer (American, 1850–1918)

medium: Cotton, "Duchesse" bobbin part lace and "Point de Gaze" needle lace with later addition of silk, machine twist net

country: Brussels

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Brussel
Flower
White (color)
Medallion
Lace making
Cotton (textile)
Lace - mixed
Silk (textile)
Net (textile)
Needle lace
Duchesse lace
Costume
Bobbin lace
Dress (garment)
Skirt (garment)
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Princess Cantacuzene in memory of Mrs. Potter Palmer I


title: Poetry Fragment (Qit'a) written in Nasta'liq Script

creator: Iran or India

date: Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)

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

country: Iran

subjects:
Calligraphy
Iran
Paper (fiber product)
Manuscript
Asian art

credit_line: The Art Institute of Chicago


title: King Anushirwan and the Owls, from the Khamsa of Nizami

creator: Iran

date: Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), c.1535

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects:
Miniature painting
Iran
King
Snake
Lizard
Horse
Castle
Bird
Ruin
Saffarid
Painting (image making)
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Samuel L. Nickerson Fund


title: Plate Two, from Marriage à la Mode

creator: Bernard Baron (French, 1696-c. 1766)

medium: Etching and engraving in black with  traces of pen and black ink on ivory laid paper

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

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


title: Dining Chair

creator: Theophil Hansen

medium: Walnut and beech with modern velvet upholstery

country: Austria

subjects: Chair Austria Furniture Walnut Seating

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buchbinder Fund


title: Side Table

creator: Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (English, 1851-1942)

medium: Mahogany and gilt brass

subjects:
Table
England
Furniture
Mahogany
Wood (plant material)
European decorative arts

credit_line: Through prior acquisitions of Mrs. Josephine P. Albright and The Antiquarian Society


title: Side Chair

creator: Designed by Edward Welby Pugin

medium: Oak and ebony with later iron plate

subjects: Furniture England

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Neville and John H. Bryan


title: Side Chair (one of two)

creator: England

medium: Mahogany and ebony; slip seat with modern upholstery

subjects:
Chair
England
Furniture
Mahogany
Greek revival
Seating
Wood (plant material)
Classical revival
European
European decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Kate L. Brewster


title: Chair

creator: Designed by Peter Behrens

medium: Ebonized oak and woven rattan

subjects:
Chair
Germany
Furniture
Seating
European decorative arts

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Manfred Steinfeld


title: Side Chair

creator: Designed by Richard Riemerschmid

medium: Bog oak and leather


title: Side Chair

creator: Designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

medium: Oak, leather, and brass

country: London

subjects:
Chair
London
Furniture
Oak
Gothic revival
Brass (alloy)
Leather
Seating
Wood (plant material)
European decorative arts

credit_line: Through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Marx, Mrs. Wolfgang Schoenborn, Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson, and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Side Chair

creator: Designed by August Thonet

date: Designed c. 1885; Made c. 1900/15

medium: Beech, cane

subjects:
Chair
Austria
Furniture
Seating
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Manfred Steinfeld


title: Side Chair

creator: Designed by Michael Thonet

date: Designed c. 1851; Manufactured c. 1855


title: Hay-Makers

creator: George Stubbs

medium: Stipple engraving, with roulette, on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment


title: Pair of Vases

creator: Probably designed by Christopher Dresser (English, born Scotland, 1834-1904)

medium: Bone china, enamel, and gilding

country: Stoke-on-Trent

subjects:
Ceramic
Stoke-on-trent
Skeletons & bones
Vase
Flower
Porcelain
Enameling
Japanism
Bone china
Enamel
Gilding
Slip casting
Aesthetic movement
Aestheticism
English
Japonism

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman


title: A Horse Frightened by a Lion

medium: Etching with engraving on paper

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowment and Print and Drawing Fund


title: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

creator: Valentine Green (English, 1739-1813)

medium: Mezzotint on paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stephen Y. Hord


title: Page from a Manuscript with Diagrams Protecting against Children's Illnesses

creator: Tibet

date: 19th century

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

country: Tibet

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Tibet
Paper (fiber product)
Himalayan
Ink
Watercolor
Manuscript
Asian art
Painting

credit_line: Margrette Dornbusch, Louise Lutz and Samuel M. Nickerson endowments; Margaret Gentles Fund


subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Tibet
Paper (fiber product)
Himalayan
Ink
Watercolor
Manuscript
Asian art


title: Double Portrait of Rubens and Van Dyck

creator: Paulus Pontius (Flemish, 1603–1658)

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

country: Flanders

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

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


title: Image of Death (Imago Mortis), from the Nuremberg Chronicle

creator: Michael Wolgemut and Workshop

medium: Handcolored woodcut in black on cream laid paper

country: Germany

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

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: Apollo and Daphne

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching on paper

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

credit_line: Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection


title: Student at a Table by Candlelight

creator: Salomon Savery (Dutch, 1594-1683)

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

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Saint Matthias, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

creator: Giovanni Marco Pitteri (Italian, 1702-1786)

medium: Engraving in black on paper

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

credit_line: Harold Joachim Purchase Fund


title: A True Art Lover, plate 66 from Les Bons Bourgeois

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper

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

credit_line: Sidney A. Kent Fund, gift of Martin A. Ryerson and the Print and Drawing Club


title: A Model Marriage: For Thirty Years They Have Cultivated Virtue and Carnations, plate six from Les Bons Bourgeois

credit_line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund


title: A Neighbour Complaining about the Watering of his Lawn, plate ten from Les Bons Bourgeois


title: One Can't Look, plate 26 from The Disasters of War

creator: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

medium: Etching, burnished lavis, drypoint and burin on ivory wove paper with gilt edges

country: Spain

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

credit_line: Gift of J. C. Cebrian


title: Lélio: The Aeolian Harp, from Hector Berlioz, sa vie et ses oeuvres

creator: Henri Fantin-Latour

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


title: Four Women Dancing

creator: Workshop of Andrea Mantegna

medium: Engraving on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Paternal Pleasures

creator: Philibert Louis Debucourt

medium: Color aquatint with etching in black ink on cream wove paper

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

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


title: Les Chagrins de L'Enfance (The Sorrows of Children)

creator: Louis Le Coeur (French, active c. 1780-1806)

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 Mrs. Charles Netcher in memory of Charles Netcher II


title: Saint Philip, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles


title: Christ of Caprarola

creator: Annibale Carracci

medium: Engraving, with etching and drypoint, on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: “Indeed, I don't know what they looked like at Austerlitz, but they could hardly have looked any better,” plate 7 from Coquetterie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edith Harrison Manniere Walden in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Carter H. Harrison


title: The Persian Sibyl

creator: Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520-1582)

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

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


title: There is No One to Help Them, plate 60 from The Disasters of War

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint and burin on ivory wove paper with gilt edges


title: Ravages of war, plate 30 from The Disasters of War

medium: Etching, drypoint, burin, and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges


title: They Escape through the Flames, plate 41 from The Disasters of War

medium: Etching and burin on ivory wove paper with gilt edges

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


title: Allegory of Science

creator: Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875)

medium: Plaster

subjects:
Mythology
Statuette
France
Science
Model
Man
Nineteenth century
Sculpting
Plaster
Casting (process)
French
Model-making
Coating (material)
Sculpture

credit_line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment


title: Allegory of Agriculture

subjects:
Mythology
Statuette
France
Agriculture
Sculpture
Model
Animal
Cows
Man
Nude
Nineteenth century
Sculpting
Plaster
Model-making
Casting (process)
French
Coating (material)


title: Profile Bust of the Prince of Condé

creator: Follower of Antoine Coysevox (French, 1640-1720)

medium: Marble

subjects:
Relief
France
Portraits: male subject
Portrait
Man
Royal
Royalty
Bust
Nobility
Head
Carving
Marble
Sculpting
French
Metamorphic rock
Rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture

credit_line: The Henry C. Dangler Memorial Collection


title: France Lighting the World

creator: Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827-1875)

subjects:
Statuette
France
World
Woman
Model
Fire
Nineteenth century
Sculpting
Plaster
Coating (process)
Casting (process)
French
Model-making
Coating (material)
Sculpture


title: Angel Holding Scroll

creator: Italian; possibly Tuscany

country: Tuscany

subjects:
Statuette
Tuscany
Angel
Christianity
Christian subject
Figure
Religion
Religious
Religious figure
Scroll (motifs)
Marble
Stonework
Metamorphic rock
Rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture
Italian
Sculpture/stone
Stone
Carving
Sculpting
Sculpture technique
Medieval

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Krishna's Marriage to Kalinda, page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana manuscript

creator: Nepal

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

country: Nepal

subjects:
Miniature painting
Nepal
Paper (fiber product)
Himalayan
Watercolor
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation in honor of Everett McNear


title: Carved Wooden Panel

creator: Morocco

date: Marinid dynasty (1244–1465), 14th century

medium: Carved Wood

country: Morocco

subjects:
Wood
Morocco
Wood (plant material)
Islamic (culture or style)
Architectural fragment
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Samuel A. Marx


title: Covered Box with Peony Flower

creator: China

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 15th century

medium: Laquer with inlaid and incised decoration

country: China

subjects:
Lacquerware
China
Flowers
Asian art

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Fund


title: Carved Lacquer Box

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

medium: Lacquer with carved decoration

subjects:
Lacquerware
China
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pinsof


title: Octagonal Marbled Lacquer Box

date: Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

medium: Marbled lacquer (xipi)

subjects:
Lacquerware
China
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Philip Pinsof


title: Luohan (Arhat)

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th century

medium: Brass alloy

subjects:
Brass
China
Brass (alloy)
Chinese (culture or style)
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Guy H. Mitchell


title: One of the 18 Luohan (Arhats)


title: Enthroned Buddha with Elephant and Monkey Paying Homage

creator: Thailand

date: Bangkok period, 19th century

medium: Gilded and lacquered bronze

country: Thailand

subjects:
Bronze
Thailand
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of the Hinsdale Village Associates


title: Kneeling Elephant


title: Buddha Triumphing over Mara

creator: Thailand or Myanmar

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gold

country: Southeast Asia

subjects:
Gold
Southeast asia
Buddha
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Miss Heath-Jones


title: Buddha Seated in Meditation

creator: Thailand, Cambodia or Laos

medium: SIlver, cast with base worked in repoussé

subjects:
Silver
Southeast asia
Repoussé
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: God Vishnu's Mount, Garuda, Standing with Hands in Gesture of Adoration (Anjalimudra)

date: 13th century

medium: Gilt bronze with gemstones

subjects:
Bronze
Nepal
Himalayan
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund


title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

creator: India

date: 11th/12th century

medium: Bronze

country: Eastern India

subjects:
Bronze
Eastern india
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: The Sage Agastya Seated in Meditation on his Water Pot (Kumbha)

date: 15th century

medium: Gilt bronze


title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Seated with Hand in Gesture of Reassurance (Abhayamudra)

date: 15th/16th century


title: Garuda Finial

creator: Thailand or Cambodia

date: Angkor period, late 12th–early 13th century

subjects:
Bronze
Southeast asia
Southeast asian
Metal
Decorative object/ornament
Asian art
Architectural fragment

credit_line: Bertha Evans Brown Fund


title: Crowned Buddha with Hands in Gesture of Teaching <em>(Vitarkamudra)</em>

date: Angkor period, 12th century or later

subjects:
Bronze
Southeast asia
Southeast asian
Asian art
Sculpture


title: Chunda, Goddess of Wisdom

creator: Indonesia

date: 9th/10th century

country: Central Java

subjects:
Bronze
Central java
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Mahavairochana

subjects:
Bronze
Central java
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art
Ritual object


title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

subjects:
Bronze
Southeast asia
Religion
Bodhisattva
Buddhism
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: God Vishnu with Lakshmi and Sarasvati

date: Pala period, 10th/11th century

country: Bengal

subjects:
Bronze
Bengal
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Prajnaparamita, Goddess of Wisdom

subjects:
Bronze
Southeast asia
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Fragment of a Tableau with Avatars of Vishnu

creator: Bangladesh

date: Pala period, 9th/10th century

country: Bangladesh

subjects:
Bronze
Bangladesh
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Emaciated Siddhartha


title: Sun God Surya on His Chariot

creator: Bangladesh or Eastern India

date: Pala period, 10th/12th century

medium: Bronze inlaid with silver


subjects:
Bangladesh
Bronze
South asian
Asian art
Sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Phillips


title: Oil Lamp with Christian Crosses

creator: Sri Lanka

date: 16th/17th century

country: Sri Lanka

subjects:
Lamp (lighting device)
Sri lanka
Bronze
South asian
Metalwork
Asian art
Decorative arts
Decorative object/ornament
Functional object
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Mark Phillips


title: God Vishnu on His Mount, Garuda

date: Angkor period, 12th century


title: Revanta, Son of Sun God Surya

date: c. 10th century

credit_line: Robert Allerton Purchase Fund


title: Buddha Standing with Hand in the Gesture of Reassurance (Abhayamudra) with Radiating Nimbus

date: Kandyan period (1480–1815)

medium: Ivory, wood, and pigments

subjects:
Ivory
Sri lanka
Buddha
South asian
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Stupa Reliquary

date: Polonnaruva period, 12th century

subjects:
Reliquary
Sri lanka
Bronze
South asian
Container
Metal
Asian art
Ritual object


title: Kneeling Elephant

date: Sukhothai period, 14th–15th century or later

subjects:
Bronze
Thailand
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Phillips


title: Buddha Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra)

date: Kandyan period, 18th century

subjects:
Bronze
Sri lanka
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: God Vishnu Astride His Mount, Garuda

date: 17th/18th century


title: God Vishnu with Lakshmi and Sarasvati

subjects:
Metal
Bangladesh
Bronze
South asian
Sculpture
Asian art


title: God Vishnu

date: c. 9th century


title: Karttikeya, God of War, Holding a Spear

date: 2nd century

medium: Spotted red sandstone

country: Mathura

subjects:
Stone (unidentified)
Mathura
Gods (deities)
Hindu
Religion
Skanda karttikeya
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Seven-Hooded Snake (Naga)

date: c. 2nd century B.C.E./2nd century C.E.

medium: Limestone

country: India

subjects:
Stone
India
Reptiles & amphibians
Limestone
South asian
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Michael Phillips and Juliana Maio


title: Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness (Bhumisparshamudra)

date: Pala period, 8th/10th century

subjects:
Bronze
Eastern india
Buddha
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Guardian King Vaishravana on His Lion Mount

date: 17th century

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Earthenware
Nepal
Terracotta
Himalayan
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds


title: Mahasiddha Manibhadra Under a Mango Tree with an Evicerated Dog

date: 13th/14th century

subjects:
Earthenware
Nepal
Trees
Terracotta
Himalayan
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art
Arts of asia 100

credit_line: Gift of Paul Walter in honor of Dr. Pratapaditya Pal


title: Altarpiece with Meditating Buddha

creator: Cambodia or Thailand

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

subjects:
Bronze
Southeast asia
Southeast asian
Metal
Shrine
Asian art
Sculpture


title: Bodhisattva Manjushri (?)

date: 9th/10th century

subjects:
Bronze
Central java
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Michael Phillips and Juliana Phillips


title: Bodhisattva with Hands in Gesture of Teaching (Vitarkamudra)


title: Prajnaparamita, Goddess of Wisdom


title: Four-Armed Bodhisattva


title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara


title: Seated Bodhisattva Maitreya

creator: Burma (or Myanmar), possibly Sri Ksetra

date: Pyu period, 7th century

country: Myanmar

subjects:
Bronze
Myanmar
Southeast asian
Asian art
Sculpture

credit_line: Gift of an Anonymous Donor


title: Mandala of Surya, the Sun God, and Lesser Planetary Deities

date: Angkor period, 10th century

subjects:
Bronze
Southeast asia
Southeast asian
Sculpture

credit_line: Frederick and Nathalie Gookin, and Russell Tyson funds


title: Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya

medium: Gold and silver

subjects:
Sculpture
Central java
Gold
Southeast asian
Arts of asia 100

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Boar Incarnation the of God Vishnu Lifting the Earth Goddess (Bhuvaraha)

date: 11th century

medium: Brass

country: Himachal Pradesh

subjects:
Brass
Himachal pradesh
Hindu
Animal
Boar
Varaha
Vishnu
Gods (deities)
Religion
Brass (alloy)
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon

creator: India or Pakistan

date: 9th century

country: Kashmir

subjects:
Bronze
Kashmir
Durga
Hindu
Goddesse
Gods (deities)
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Mother Goddess Brahmani Seated in a Yogic Posture Holding a Water Pot

date: 13th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Copper
Nepal
Goddesse
Copper alloy
Himalayan
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Sarasvati, Goddess of Wisdom, Holding a Book and a Water Pot

date: 10th century

medium: Gilt copper alloy with semiprecious stones

country: Kathmandu Valley

subjects:
Copper
Kathmandu valley
Copper alloy
Himalayan
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Tantric Goddess Kamakala and Spouse in Ritual Embrace (yab-yum)

date: 14th/15th century

subjects:
Bronze
Nepal
Himalayan
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Seated with Hand in Gesture of Gift Giving (Varadamudra)

creator: Pakistan

date: 8th/9th century

medium: Brass inlaid with silver

country: Swat

subjects:
Brass
Swat
Brass (alloy)
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Plaque with Local Deity Ghantakarna and Spouse

subjects:
Bronze
Kathmandu valley
Himalayan
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art
Ritual object


title: Standing Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Holding a Lotus Flower

date: early 9th century

medium: Brass inlaid with copper and silver

subjects:
Brass
Swat
Flowers
Brass (alloy)
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Four-Armed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Seated in Lotus Position (Padmasana)

medium: Brass inlaid with silver and copper alloy

country: Pakistan

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan
Brass (alloy)
South asian
Brass
Silver
Copper alloy
Metal
Asian art


title: Goddess of Abundance Enthroned on Lion and Lustrated by Elephants

date: 7th/8th century

medium: Chlorite

subjects:
Schist
India
Goddesse
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Mahavairochana

medium: Silver and copper alloy

subjects:
Silver
Central java
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Votive Plaque with Bull

medium: Gold worked in repoussé

country: Java

subjects:
Ritual object
Java
Southeast asian


title: The Divine Architect, Vishvakarman

medium: Bronze

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


title: Shadakshari Mahavidya

date: Pala period, 12th century

medium: Gilt bronze with silver and copper inlay

country: Bihar

subjects:
Bronze
Bihar
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Buddha's Footprints (Buddhapada)

date: c. 2nd/3rd century

country: Andhra Pradesh

subjects:
Stone (unidentified)
Andhra pradesh
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art
Ritual object


title: Bust of Buddha

date: c. 3rd century

subjects:
Stone
Andhra pradesh
Limestone
South asian
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Buddha Standing with Hand in the Gesture of Reassurance (Abhayamudra)

date: Kandyan period (1480–1815), 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Bronze
Sri lanka
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Linga Cover with Head of God Shiva

subjects:
Brass
Himachal pradesh
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art
Ritual object

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Gift of Marilynn Alsdorf


title: Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini)

subjects:
Bronze
Kashmir
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Four-Armed Standing God Vishnu with Personified Weapons (Ayudhapurusha)

medium: Green chlorite

subjects:
Schist
Kashmir
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Molded Tablet with Buddha Triad

date: Angkor Period, 12th–14th century

country: Thailand

subjects:
Bone
Thailand
Skeletons & bones
Asian art
Shrine
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of Charles Frederickson


title: Plaque with Buddha Triumphing over Mara

date: Ayutthaya period, 15th–16th century

medium: Gold repoussé

subjects:
Gold
Thailand
Buddha
Repoussé
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art
Ritual object


title: Jaina Tirthankara Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra)

date: 15th century

medium: White marble with traces of pigment

country: Gujarat

subjects:
Stone (unidentified)
Gujarat
Jain
Gods (deities)
Religion
Jaina
Jainism
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Lamp with Deified Figure Upheld by Garuda

date: 15th century or earlier

medium: Terracotta with traces of vermilion pigment

country: Nepal

subjects:
Earthenware
Nepal
Terracotta
Himalayan
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Marilyn Walter Ground in honor of Dr. Pratapaditya Pal


title: Plaque of Vajrasattva

creator: Tibet

date: 17th century

medium: Carved bone

country: Tibet

subjects:
Bone
Tibet
Skeletons & bones
Himalayan
Sculpture
Asian art
Ritual object

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Woman with a Headdress

date: Mauryan period, 1st century B.C.

medium: Molded red micaceous clay

country: Uttar Pradesh

subjects:
Earthenware
Uttar pradesh
Terracotta
South asian
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of James E. Patton Mass


title: Carved Wooden Panel

date: Marinid dynasty (1244–1465), 14th century

medium: Carved wood

country: Morocco

subjects:
Wood
Morocco
Wood (plant material)
Architectural fragment
Asian art
Islamic (culture or style)

credit_line: Gift of Samuel A. Marx


title: Torso of a Female Figurine

date: Mauryan period, 3rd/2nd century B.C.

medium: Hand-modeled gray terracotta

country: Mathura

subjects:
Earthenware
Mathura
Terracotta
South asian
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Head of Buddha

creator: Afghanistan or Pakistan

date: Kushan period, 3rd–5th century

medium: Stucco with traces of red pigment

country: Gandhara

subjects:
Bust/head
Gandhara
Stucco
South asian
Stuccowork
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Fund


title: Shaiva Saint Appar, Holding a Spade

date: 14th century

country: Thanjavur

subjects:
Bronze
Thanjavur
South asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art
Chola

credit_line: Bertha Evans Brown Fund


title: Crowned Head

date: Ayutthaya period, 17th–18th century

medium: Stucco

subjects:
Bust/head
Thailand
Stucco
Southeast asian
Stuccowork
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Female Head

creator: Pakistan or India

date: 4th/6th century

medium: Terracotta with traces of red slip

subjects:
Earthenware
Gandhara
Terracotta
South asian
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Head of Buddha

date: Kushan period, 2nd/3rd century

medium: Gray schist

subjects:
Bust/head
Gandhara
Schist
South asian
Stone (unidentified)
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Bequest of Wayne Hartwell


title: Figurine of Elephant and Rider

creator: Thailand, possibly Sukhothai province

date: Sukhothai period, 14th–15th century or later

medium: Stoneware with brown glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand
Stoneware
Southeast asian
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Chester D. Tripp


title: Figurine of a Mother and Child

medium: Stoneware with gray-green celadon glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand
Mother
Children
Babie
Parent
Stoneware
Southeast asian
Asian art
Sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Richard A. Martin


title: Bust of a Female Figurine

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Phillips


title: Toy Cart with Elephant

date: 1st century B.C.E.-1st century C.E.

medium: Terracotta with red slip

country: West Bengal

subjects:
Earthenware
West bengal
Terracotta
South asian
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Head from a Figurine of a Female

date: 14th/15th century

medium: Terracotta

country: Eastern Java

subjects:
Earthenware
Eastern java
Terracotta
Southeast asian
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Phillips


title: Head from a Figurine of a Child


title: Head from a Figurine of a Chinese Dignitary


title: Fragment of a Face


title: Fragment of an Architectural Model

subjects:
Architecture
Ceramic
Eastern java
Terracotta
Southeast asian
Inorganic material
Shrine
Asian art
Sculpture


title: Bird Figurine

subjects:
Earthenware
Java
Birds
Animal
Terracotta
Southeast asian
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Architectural Panel with Deer

subjects:
Architecture
Earthenware
Eastern java
Terracotta
Southeast asian
Inorganic material
Ceramic tile
Ceramic
Asian art
Architectural fragment


title: Male Head

date: 2nd/3rd century


title: Oval Cosmetic Box Lid with a Man Being Entertained by a Lyrist

date: 5th/6th century

subjects:
Container for personal use
Gandhara
Music
Musician
Schist
South asian
Box
Stone (unidentified)
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art
Gandharan
Decorative arts

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor


date: Kushan period, 2nd century

medium: Molded terracotta


title: Toy Cart with Lion Charging a Warrior on the Side and Wheels with Lotus Motifs

date: 1st century B.C.

medium: Partially molded terracotta with red slip

credit_line: Gift of Marilyn Walter-Grounds


title: Male Head

date: 3rd/4th century

credit_line: Gift of Paul Walter


title: Votive Tank Shrine with Three Monkey Musicians

date: 1st/2nd century

medium: Hand-modeled terracotta with red slip


title: Toy Cart with Grimacing Potbellied Dwarf (Yaksha)


title: Amorous Couple (Mithuna) with Parrot

medium: Molded terracotta with red slip


title: Amorous Couple (Mithuna) Seated in a Chair

subjects:
Sculpture
Uttar pradesh
Terracotta
South asian
Earthenware
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Asian art


title: Piggy Bank

medium: Terracotta with brown glaze

subjects:
Sculpture
Eastern java
Southeast asian
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter and Marilyn Walter Grounds


title: Temple Guardian (Rakshasa)

medium: Terracotta with a cream-colored glaze

subjects:
Architecture
Sculpture
Thailand
Southeast asian
Asian art


title: Model of a Temple with Guardians

medium: Tuff stone

subjects:
Architecture
Sculpture
Eastern java
Stone
Southeast asian
Asian art
Architectural fragment


title: Head of a Male Deity (Deva)

creator: Thailand, possibly Lamphun province

date: Haripunjaya period, 11th–12th century or later

subjects:
Earthenware
Thailand
Terracotta
Southeast asian
Inorganic material
Haripunjaya
Thai
Asian
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mark and Juliana Phillips


title: Seated Mother Goddess

date: 1st century

subjects:
Earthenware
Uttar pradesh
Terracotta
South asian
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Painted Bowl with Fish and Lotus Design

date: 5th century

medium: Terracotta with black pigment

subjects:
Fish
Bowl
Gandhara
Terracotta
South asian
Earthenware
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Pratapaditya and Chitra Pal


title: Painted Bowl with Faunal and Floral Design

subjects:
Bowl
Gandhara
Flowers
Terracotta
South asian
Earthenware
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Asian art
Vessel


title: Female Head

date: 13th/15th century

medium: Andesite

subjects:
Stone
Eastern java
Southeast asian
Majapahit
East javanese
Javanese
Indonesian
Asian
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Louise A. Lutz and Samuel M. Nickerson funds


title: Head of a Female Adorant

date: 4th/5th century

subjects:
Bust/head
Gandhara
Stucco
South asian
Stuccowork
Sculpture
Asian art
Gandharan

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Head of Emaciated Siddhartha

subjects:
Bust/head
Gandhara
Schist
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art
Gandharan


title: Head of an Adorant

subjects:
Bust/head
Gandhara
Terracotta
South asian
Earthenware
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art
Gandharan


title: Head of a Bodhisattva

date: 3rd/5th century

medium: Stucco with red and black pigment

subjects:
Stuccowork
Gandhara
South asian
Sculpture
Asian art


title: God Triton

medium: Schist

subjects:
Schist
Gandhara
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art
Gandharan


title: Corinthian Capital with Sun God Surya Riding a Chariot (Quadriga)

date: 2nd century

subjects:
Schist
Gandhara
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art
Gandharan
Architectural fragment


title: Serpent King (Nagaraja) Emerging from a Lotus


title: Bust of Crowned and Adorned Buddha

creator: Burma (Myanmar)

date: 16th/18th century

medium: Bronze

country: Myanmar

subjects:
Bronze
Myanmar
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Architectural Panel with Parrots

date: 9th/10th century

subjects:
Architecture
Earthenware
Java
Terracotta
Southeast asian
Inorganic material
Ceramic tile
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art
Architectural fragment


title: Crowned Head

creator: Thailand

date: Mon period, 8th‒12th century

medium: Stucco

subjects:
Stuccowork
Thailand
Southeast asian
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Buddha Shakyamuni with Attendants

creator: India

medium: Sandstone

subjects:
Sandstone
Mathura
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Gift of Marilynn Alsdorf


title: Stele with Episode from the Life of the Buddha (Monkey Offers Honey to the Buddha)

date: Pala period, 10th century

medium: Black chlorite

subjects:
Sculpture
Bihar
Chlorite
South asian
Asian art


title: Male Head

date: Gupta period, 4th/5th century

subjects:
Earthenware
Uttar pradesh
Terracotta
South asian
Inorganic material
Gupta
Indian (south asian)
Asian
Ceramic
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Head of a Deity or a Deified King


title: Carved Wooden Panel

creator: Morocco

date: Marinid dynasty (1244–1465), 14th century

medium: Carved wood

subjects:
Wood
Morocco
Wood (plant material)
Islamic (culture or style)
Architectural fragment
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Samuel A. Marx


title: Veneration of the Buddha's Relics

creator: Pakistan or Afghanistan

date: Kushan period, 2nd/3rd century

subjects:
Stone
Gandhara
Asian art
Sculpture

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment


title: Miniature Reliquary (Stupa)

creator: Myanmar

date: Pyu period, 8th–9th century or later

medium: Gold repoussé

country: Southeast Asia

subjects:
Reliquary
Southeast asia
Repoussé
Gold
Southeast asian
Container
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Stupa Reliquary

date: About 14th/15th century

country: Sri Lanka

subjects:
Reliquary
Sri lanka
Bronze
South asian
Container
Metal
Asian art
Sculpture


title: Fragment of Spatula (Si)

creator: China

date: Shang dynasty ( about 1600–1045 BC), 13th/11th century BC

medium: Bone

country: China

subjects:
Bone
China
Skeletons & bones
Chinese (culture or style)
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Jar with Grooved Bands and Loop Handles

date: Shang dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1050 B.C.), 12th–11th century B.C.

medium: Earthenware with molded and incised decoration

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Earthenware
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line:
Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
Gift of Mr. Russell Tyson


title: Royal Horse Inspection

creator: Iran, probably Isfahan

date: Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), late 17th century

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

country: Iran

subjects:
Miniature painting
Iran
Horse
Islamic
Safavid
Shah abba
Paper (fiber product)
Painting (image making)
Gold
Watercolor
Painting
Asian art
Islamic (culture or style)
"bizarre" style
Isfahan
Persian


title: The Greedy Dog

date: Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), late 16th century

medium: Opaque watercolor and shell gold on paper

country: India

subjects:
Watercolor
India
Shells & molluscs
Animal
Paper (fiber product)
Islamic (culture or style)
Gold
Painting
Asian art
Arts of asia 100


title: Page from the St. Petersburg Album

creator: India and Iran

date: Portraits: Top left: Iran, c. 1740; top right: Iran, c. 1748; bottom left: India, 18th century; bottom right: India, 18th century; Calligraphy: Iran, late 16th century; Borders: Iran, mid–18th century

medium: Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

subjects:
Album leaf
India
Paper (fiber product)
Islamic (culture or style)
Gold
Watercolor
Painting
Manuscript
Arts of asia 100


title: The Ascent of the Prophet to Heaven, Page from the Khamsa of Nizami

creator: Iran

date: Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), c. 1600

medium: Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper

subjects:
Painting
Iran
The prophet muhammad
Paper (fiber product)
Islamic (culture or style)
Safavid
Manuscript
Arts of asia 100


title: Al-Mu'tazz Sends Gifts to Abdulla ibn Abdulla, from a copy of the Tarikh-i Alfi

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

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Fund


title: A Battle Scene from a Shahnama Manuscript

date: Safavid dynasty (1521-1722), 16th century

medium: Watercolor and gold on paper

subjects:
Miniature painting
Iran
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Alexander Comforts the Dying Darius, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

medium: Opaque watercolor and ink on paper

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

credit_line: Ann McNear Collection


title: Portrait of a Beauty

date: 17th century

subjects:
Miniature painting
India
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Mughal
Gold
Watercolor
Indian (south asian)
South asian
Asian
Painting
Asian art
Islamic (culture or style)

credit_line: Kemp Benevolent Fund


title: Zal Climbing to Rudaba, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

date: Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), dated 1580/90

country: Shiraz

subjects:
Painting
Shiraz
Paper (fiber product)
Safavid
Gold
Watercolor
Manuscript
Asian art
Islamic (culture or style)


title: Emperor Freeing the Slave Androcles

creator: Agostino dei Musi

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

country: Italy

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, II


title: Saint Paul Preaching at Athens

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, c. 1480-1534)

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Bernardino Passeri

medium: Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper

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


title: Project for a Tomb

creator: Giulio Campi

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

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Brown ink
Colored ink
Ink
Coating (material)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Resurrected Christ

creator: Luca Cambiaso

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

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