title: One Cycle of Hell

creator: Circle of Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825)

medium: Graphite, with pen and black ink, and brush and black and gray wash, on cream laid paper

subjects:
Graphite
England
Paper (fiber product)
Laid paper
Black ink
Ink
Gray wash
Wash
Black wash
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Medallion

creator: Egypt

date: 3rd/4th century

medium: Linen and wool, tapestry weave

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Weaving

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: Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Sonnenschein


title: Fragment

date: 9th/13th century

medium: Natural linen plain woven cloth with tapestry woven border

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Sonnenschein


title: The Unsafe Tenement

creator: James McNeill Whistler

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

country: United States

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Honoré Palmer


title: Saint Dominic Reading

creator: Bartholomaeus Spranger

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper

country: Flanders

subjects:
Ink
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Lead white
Opaque white pigment
White pigment
Pigment
Colorant
Brown ink
Colored ink
Coating (material)
Brown wash
Wash
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry C. Woods and Print and Drawing Purchase Fund


title: The Abduction of Europa

creator: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

medium: Etching on ivory wove paper

country: France

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Kaye and Howard Haas


title: Titian and His Mistress

creator: Lucas Vorsterman (Dutch, 1595-1675)

medium: Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Chair Seat and Back Panel

creator: France or Italy, Turin

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered with silk floss in outline and satin stitches; couching and French knots

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

credit_line: Royalties from The Warner Fund


title: A Mill

creator: David Lucas (English, 1802-1881)

medium: Mezzotint on paper

country: England

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


title: Fragment

date: Fatimid period (969–1171)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Arts of the islamic world
Weaving
Fatimid

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Martin A. Ryerson


title: The Entombment

creator: Workshop of Andrea Mantegna

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

country: Italy

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

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Fragment

medium: Linen and silk, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Arts of the islamic world
Weaving
Fatimid
Silk (fiber)


title: Fragments


title: Fragment

date: Ayyubid period (1171–1250)/Mamluk period (1250–1517), 13th/14th century

medium: Embroidered; silk; tent stitch on linen ground

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Mamluk
Silk (textile)
Embroidering
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Ayyubid
Linen (material)

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


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt, possibly Akhmin

date: 5th-6th century

medium: Linen and wool, slit tapestry weave

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

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Fragment

date: 6th-8th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Wool (textile)
Slit tapestry weaving
Coptic (historically identified as)
Weaving
Roman period (egyptian)
Arabian
Linen (material)


title: Fragment

date: Arab period (641–969)/Fatimid period (969–1171)/Ayyubid period (1171–1250)/ Mamluk period (1250–1517), 9th/13th century

medium: Linen and silk, slit tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Linen (material)
Slit tapestry weaving
Mamluk
Weaving
Silk (textile)
Arabian
Ayyubid


title: Border

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in long-armed cross and running (pattern darning) stitches

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Arabian
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (textile)
Embroidering
Ayyubid
Fatimid
Mamluk


title: Fragment

date: 7th-8th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Linen (material)
Slit tapestry weaving
Coptic (historically identified as)
Weaving
Roman period (egyptian)
Wool (textile)
Arabian


title: Fragment

date: 13th-14th century

medium: Silk and linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Geometric
Silk (textile)
Needleworking
Coptic (historically identified as)
Needlework (visual works)
Mamluk
Ayyubid
Linen (material)


title: Fragment

date: 3th-4th century

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


title: Fragment

medium: silk on linen plain compound cloth

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Compound weaving
Silk (textile)
Arabian
Weaving
Linen (material)
Mamluk
Ayyubid
Fatimid


title: Fragment

date: 12th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Linen (material)
Slit tapestry weaving
Coptic (historically identified as)
Weaving
Roman period (egyptian)
Wool (textile)
Fatimid
Ayyubid


title: Fragment


title: Fragment

date: Late Fatimite (969–1171 CE)/ Ayyubid period (1171–1250), 11th/13th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Fatimid
Linen (material)
Slit tapestry weaving
Weaving
Ayyubid
Wool (textile)


title: Border

creator: Egypt, Akhmin

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Roman period (egyptian)
Linen (material)
Slit tapestry weaving
Weaving
Wool (textile)


title: Portrait of Abbé Jouveau

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

medium: Graphite, with traces of charcoal, on ivory wove paper

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

credit_line: Helen Regenstein Collection


title: Dying Soldiers by the Roadside, plate sixteen from The Miseries of War

creator: Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)

medium: Etching on paper

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

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: Plate with Shou Lao (the God of Longevity), Attendant, and Deer

creator: China

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

medium: Porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamel decoration

country: China

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
China
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson


title: Coffee Service

creator: Vienna State Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, monochrome black (Schwartzlot), polychrome enamels, and gilding

country: Vienna

subjects:
Teaware
Vienna
Hard-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Ceramic
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society


title: Windsor (Memorial)

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

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


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: Designed by Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Chinoiserie
Copperplate printing
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mildred Davison in honor of Christa C. Mayer Thurman


title: Twilight with Haystacks

creator: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)

medium: Aquatint, with etching, in orange-red on ivory wove paper

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


title: Nutmeg Grater

creator: Thomas Matthews

medium: Silver and steel

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Hixon Glore


title: Paperweight

creator: Baccarat Glassworks (Cristalleries de Baccarat)

medium: Glass

country: Lunéville

subjects:
Paperweight
Lunéville
Lampworking
Glass
Lampwork
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Rubloff


title: Paperweight

date: 19th century

subjects:
Lampwork
Lunéville
Glass
Paperweight
European decorative arts


title: Sampler

creator: Possibly France

medium: Linen, plain weave; cutwork embroidered with cotton in overcast stitch; pulled threadwork embroidered with cotton in hem, interlocking and outline stitches; embroidered with silk in outline, satin and stem stitches; French knots; bobbin lace

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard I. Stearns through the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Noon Hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Georgia

creator: Lewis Wickes Hine

date: January 1909

medium: Gelatin silver print

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Lunn, Jr.


title: Picture (Probably from an Orphrey Band Depicting Christ before Mary Magdalene)

creator: Germany, possibly Cologne

medium: Linen, plain weave; appliquéd with silk, satin weave and linen plain weave; embroidered with silk floss, linen and gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber cores in cross, outline, satin, split and stem stitches; couching

country: Germany

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. John V. Farwell III in honor of Mrs. Walter Byron Smith


title: Panel

creator: France, Lyon

medium: Silk, damask weave

country: Lyon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Lyon
Greek
Cityscape
Lattice
People
Silk (textile)
Damask
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William J. Robertson


title: Philippe Le Roy

creator: Anthony van Dyck

medium: Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Border

creator: France

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

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

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


title: Pair of Mittens

creator: England or France

medium: Silk, bands of bunch, spider, and square netting; embroidered in cloth and overcast stitches; cotton cords with silk cut tassels

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


title: Full Moon

creator: Nathan W. Pease

date: mid–19th century

medium: Albumen print, stereo

subjects:
Stereograph (albumen)
United state
Albumen silver print
Photographic process
Photography
Photograph

credit_line: Gift of Robert Jesmer


title: Untitled

creator: Bonnie J. Brown

medium: Matte collodion print

subjects: Collodion printing-out-paper print (pop)


title: Fragment

creator: Italy

date: 17th century

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving - velvet
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Else Regensteiner


title: Panel

creator: Probably England

medium: Silk, stripes of plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; and warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Dewey


title: The Virgin and Child with Crown and Sceptre on a Crescent

creator: Unknown Artist

medium: Woodcut printed in dark brown through rubbing, hand-colored in red lacquer, yellow, and green, on cream laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: Promenade

creator: Edgar Chahine

medium: Drypoint, etching and aquatint on cream wove paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Pierre Chahine


title: Tureen

creator: England, Staffordshire

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware)

country: Staffordshire

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

credit_line: Buckingham Fund


title: Picture Depicting Ann and Sarah (Needlework)

creator: United States, probably New York

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk, plain weave; painted; embroidered with silk in satin and stem stitches; French knots

country: New York

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
New york
Women
Tree
Flower
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering
Paint

credit_line: Estate of Edward William Garbisch and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch


title: Landscape with Ruins

creator: Bernardo Bellotto

date: about 1740

medium: Etching in black on cream laid paper

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Fund


title: Untitled (Three Men)

creator: Artist unknown

medium: Ambrotype

subjects:
Photography
Portrait
Portraits: male subject
Portraits: multiple subject
Ambrotype
Photographic process
Photograph

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Myer Freeman


title: The Housewife

creator: August Gaber (German, 1823-1891)

medium: Wood engraving in black on gray China paper

subjects:
Wood engraving
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


title: Branch of a tree

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Holland

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Fund


title: Robbed! Empty-Pocket Street..., plate 13 from Émotions Parisiens

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper

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

credit_line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund


title: Old Westminster Bridge

creator: James McNeill Whistler

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Alfred E. Hamill


title: Rotherhithe

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

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


title: The Changeling

creator: Attributed to Henry Fuseli

medium: Charcoal and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on white tissue paper

subjects:
Charcoal
England
Paper (fiber product)
Graphite
Gray wash
Wash
White gouache
Gouache
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel

medium: Oil and oil wash, with pen and black ink, charcoal, and touches of incising, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper

subjects:
Gouache
England
Incising
Paper (fiber product)
Organic material
Charcoal
Plant material
Chalk stick
White chalk
Black ink
Colored ink
Ink
Coating (material)
Oil wash
Wash
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper


title: Overskirt (Urku)

creator: Aymara

medium: Wool, stripes of plain weave and three-color complementary warp weave; joined with darning stitches; edges overcast and interlaced in plain weave

country: Bolivia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Bolivia
Plain weaving
Wool (textile)
Aymará
Weaving
Latin american

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society


title: At the Piano

creator: Anders Zorn

country: Sweden

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

credit_line: Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed


title: Fragment

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

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

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and silvered-metal strips, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming uncut and voided velvet; outlined by gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in running and couching stitches


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Pattern in cyprus gold thread on red satin ground; plain compound twill

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving


title: Fragment

creator: France

medium: Silk, cut, uncut, and voided velvet against satin weave foundation

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


title: Border

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in back, hem, satin, and split stitches; edged with silk floss in buttonhole and detached buttonhole stitches

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


title: Border

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in back, hem and running stitches


title: Stole

creator: Spain

date: 15th century

medium: Silk, velvet; cut, voided; additional brocading wefts in gilt strip (wound around silk fiber core) forming loops where required; gilt galloon trim and crosses; two attached silk cords, knotted and fringed

country: Spain

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Chasuble with Orphrey Band

creator: Chasuble: Italy or Spain

date: Chasuble: Late 15th century; Orphrey Band: Late 15th/early 16th century

medium: Chasuble: Silk, plain weave with silk facing wefts and twill interlacings of secondary binding warps, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk facing wefts forming weft loops on cut and uncut, pile-on-pile voided velvet; Orphrey Band: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in fishbone, herringbone, satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; edged with woven fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Couching (embroidering)
Embroidering
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Linen (material)
Velvet
Liturgical


title: Fragment from a Border

creator: Italy

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


title: Stole

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


title: Sketchbook I

creator: Arthur B. Davies

medium: Maroon buckram cover, tinted paper pages with designs in graphite and watercolor

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Via, Jr.


title: Fragment

medium: Silk; twill velvet foundation


title: Sketchbook II


title: Fragment (From a Border)

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in back and long-armed cross stitches


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt, possibly Akhmin

date: 6th-7th century

medium: Silk, twill weave

country: Egypt

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


title: Cap

medium: Silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk threads in stem, long and short, and satin stitches; French knots

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fashion
Costume accessory - headdress
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Silk (fiber)


title: Sheet of Six Antique Medals

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster


title: Big River, from the Rancherie, Mendocino, California

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen print

country: United States

subjects:
Albumen silver print
United state
River
Wilderness
Sky
Plant
Tree
Forest
Glass
Album
Photographic process
Photography
Albumen process
Photograph
Essential

credit_line: Gift of the Auxiliary Board


title: Handkerchief

medium: textile

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward J. Bermingham


title: The Triumph of Love

creator: Attributed to Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving in black on paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Francesco de Medici, Prince of Tuscany

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching and engraving on cream laid paper

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

credit_line: Hannan Fund


title: Panel

creator: France, Lyon

date: 1790s, Directoire period

medium: Silk, 7:1 warp-faced satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and ground wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Lyon
Directoire
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Panel

creator: England or Netherlands

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave self-patterned by areas of weft-float faced 4:1 twill weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Flower
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mildred Davison in memory of Josephine Morse


title: Sampler

creator: Possibly Germany or Netherlands

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and yarns, chenille yarns, and silk, plain weave ribbons; embroidered in chain, individual running, satin, padded satin, single satin, split, and stem stitches; French knots, laidwork, couching

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ingrid Zerunian


title: Handkerchief

creator: England or France

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered in cotton and linen yarns; pulled threadwork in interlocking lace, overcast, herringbone, and single faggot stitches; cut and drawn work in buttonhole, Italian hem, open chain and twisted button hole stitches; with areas of padding and inserts of twist net; embroidered in back, buttonhole, detached overcast, double running, eyelet hole, flame, open chain, padded satin, Roumanian, running, satin, sheaf filling, and stem filling stitches; laid work; couching

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William J. Robertson in memory of William J. Robertson


title: Cover to La Forêt de Fontainebleau

creator: Louis Auguste Lepère (French, 1849-1918)

date: published 1908

medium: Wood engraving in ochre, tan, brown, green and black on cream laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Ralph Budd


title: Sketchbook

creator: George Cruikshank

medium: Sketchbook with 16 leaves and 34 pages (including endpapers) of drawings in graphite, many with watercolor, pen and ink or gouache, on cream wove paper, with additional drawings on wove and laid papers tipped in, bound with worn calf-covered boards and in a red levant morocco slip case lined in red watered silk

subjects:
Sketchbook
England
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing (visual works)
Book
Print and drawing
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John W. Taylor, Mrs. Winthrop M. Robinson, Jr. and Mrs. Fred D. Sauter from the Estate of Frances Hooper


title: Goat and Bee Cream Jug

creator: Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelain Factory

medium: Porcelain

country: Coalport

subjects:
Porcelain
Coalport
Rococo
Ceramic
European decorative arts

credit_line: The Amelia Blanxius Memorial Collection, gift of Emma B. Hodge and Jene E. Bell


title: Standing Nude with Draperies

creator: Auguste Rodin

medium: Watercolor and graphite on ivory wove paper

country: France

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

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection


title: Beer Jug

creator: England, Leeds or Yorkshire

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware)

country: England

subjects:
Pitcher (vessel)
England
Ships & the sea
Earthenware
Vessel
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware
Creamware
Ceramic


title: Sunset

medium: Watercolor and graphite, with smudging, on cream wove paper

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


title: Leaving the Earth


title: Teapot

creator: England, West Yorkshire, Leeds

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

country: Leeds

subjects:
Teapot
Leed
Earthenware
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware
Ceramic


title: Chocolate Pot

creator: Rambervillers Pottery Factory or Septfontaines Pottery Factory

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (faience)

subjects:
Earthenware
France
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave; engraved roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Howell B. Erminger, Jr.


title: Cuff

medium: Silk, satin weave, over linen, plain weave; embroidered in silk floss, metal strips wrapped around a silk fiber core, with silk cords; in couching, line and padded satin stitches

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

credit_line: Gift of Meyric Rogers


title: Lace Bobbin

creator: Belgium, Brussels

medium: Plain wood with bulb end; wound with linen

country: Brussels

subjects: Bobbin Brussel Textile


title: Teapot

creator: England, Staffordshire

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware with polychrome enamel decoration

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

credit_line: Amelia Blanxius Memorial collection


title: Teapot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware


title: Basket Stand

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


title: Plaque with Sacrifice to Hymen

creator: Wedgwood Manufactory

medium: Stoneware (jasperware)

country: Burslem

subjects:
Sculpture
Burslem
Jasper ware
Stoneware
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts

credit_line: The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood


title: Coffee Pot

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (agateware)

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
European decorative arts
Agateware
Ceramic


title: Cameo with Head of a Man

date: Late 18th century

subjects:
Cameo (sculpture)
Burslem
Jasper ware
Sculpture
Stoneware
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts


title: Medallion with Woman and Dog


title: Fragment

creator: Peru

medium: textile

country: Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru
Weaving
Latin american

credit_line: Gift of M. S. Krausz


title: Fragment

creator: Probably Chuquibamba

medium: Plain compound cloth (old card)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru
Chuquibamba
Weaving
Latin american


title: Fragment

medium: Plain compound twill. Double compound cloth.


title: Fragment


title: Fragment

medium: Plain compound twill


title: Fragment

medium: Slit tapestry


title: Fragment

creator: Wari

medium: Cotton, plain weave; printed and tie-dyed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru
Pre-columbian
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Fragment

medium: Plain simple cloth (old card)


title: Fragment

creator: Possibly Yauca Valley, south coast, Peru


title: L'Assommoir

creator: Various artists

medium: Book with sixty wood engravings and gillotages in black on ivory laid paper, printed again in black on ivory China paper, tipped in

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Robert S. Hartman


title: Portrait of Auguste Brunet

creator: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

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

credit_line: Stanley Field and Suzanne Lord Folds endowment funds


title: Veil

creator: Mary Chadbourne Keith Norton (American, 1807-1890)

medium: Silk, machine-made net; embroidered with silk in darning, running, and wave filling stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Lace - mixed
Silk (fiber)
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles A. Spring, Jr.


title: Bonnet Veil

medium: Silk, machine-made twist net; embroidered in chain stitches (tambour work); edged with machine-made picots


title: Veil

medium: Silk, machine-made net; embroidered with silk in darning and running stitches


title: Orphrey Band (Depicting the Resurrection)

creator: Italy

date: 15th/16th century

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

country: Italy

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

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Carriage Clock

creator: Johann Gottlieb Graupner

medium: Silver, gilding, leather, velvet, and crystal

country: Dresden

subjects:
Jewelry
Dresden
Minerals & gems
Silver
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Presented by Mrs. T. B. Blackstone to The Antiquarian Society


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt

date: Ayyubid period (1171–1250)/Mamluk period (1250–1517), 13th century

medium: Linen and silk, compound weave

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

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, compound weave


title: Set of a Settee and Chair Cover

creator: France

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Empire
Weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. Armour, Jr. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation


title: Casket

creator: Battersea Enamel Factory

medium: Enameled copper and metal mounts

country: Battersea

subjects: Enamel Battersea Copper Metalwork

credit_line: Purchased from S. A. Kent Fund


title: Casket

creator: England, Battersea

medium: Metal and enamel

subjects: Enamel Battersea Metal Metalwork


title: Patch Box

creator: Bilston, England

country: Bilston

subjects: Enamel Bilston Metal Metalwork


title: Box


title: Illuminated Initial "G" from a Prayerbook

creator: Dutch

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with Dutch inscriptions in black and red inks, ruled in black, on parchment

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Tempera
Netherland
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: W. Moses Willner Fund


title: Bifolia from a Vita Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints

creator: Italian (Tuscany)

medium: Manuscript cutting with tempera decorations and gothica textualis primitiva inscriptions in brownish-black ink, on parchment

subjects:
Tempera
Italy
Medieval
Manuscript
Celtic (medieval)
European
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Illuminated Initial "H" from a Psalter or Breviary

creator: German or Southern Netherlandish (Bruges)

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with Latin inscriptions in brown and red ink, unruled, on vellum

country: Germany

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


title: Fragment

creator: Netherlands

medium: Cotton, plain weave; printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Netherland
Weaving
Weaving - printed

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Prunus and Bamboo

creator: Lin Xue (Chinese, active early 17th century)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper

country: China

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China
Paper (fiber product)
Chinese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art
Women artist

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment


title: Louis XIV

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving in black on paper

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

credit_line: Bequest of Lessing Rosenthal


title: Cushion Cover

creator: Manchu

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in knot, satin, and stem stitches; laid work and couching

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

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Butler through the Antiquarian Society


title: Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Plaster Details for Retiring Rooms

creator: Adler and Sullivan

medium: Hectograph print on paper mounted on board

country: Chicago

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural drawing
Chicago
Paper (fiber product)

credit_line: Gift of George Grant Elmslie


title: Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Plaster Arch Details


title: Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Plaster Details for Vestibule Arch

medium: Hectograph print on paper


title: Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Plaster Details with Electric Lights


title: Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Ornamental Plaster Work, Pilaster Details

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Architectural drawing
Chicago
Paper (fiber product)


title: Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Plaster Details for Balcony

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural drawing
Chicago
Paper (fiber product)
Chicago artist


title: Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Plaster Details for Gallery


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

creator: James McNeill Whistler

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

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


title: Teapot

creator: England, Staffordshire

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware)

country: Staffordshire

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

credit_line: The Amelia Blanxius Memorial Collection, gift of Emma B. Hodge and Jene E. Bell


title: Grover Cleveland II

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Sweden

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

credit_line: Gift of Frank B. Hubachek


title: The Engraver and the Etcher

creator: Abraham Bosse

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Endowment


title: Illuminated Manuscript Leaf

creator: Italian

medium: Manuscript cutting with round gothic inscriptions in black, red and blue inks, and decorations in red and blue inks, on vellum

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Medieval
Manuscript
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Ernest F. Detterer


title: Illuminated Manuscript Leaf

medium: Manuscript cutting with roman small letter inscriptions in black and dark brown inks, tempera and gold leaf illuminated letters, and decorations in red and lavender inks, on vellum


title: Panel

creator: France

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Panel

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Balance

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: The Dog on the Kennel

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

country: United States

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

credit_line: Bequest of Bryan Lathrop


title: Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate

medium: Etching in black ink on cream laid paper


title: Seymour

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

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


title: Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

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

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


title: Landscape with Horses

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

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


title: Greenwich Park

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

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


title: Finette

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

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


title: Billingsgate

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

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


title: The Storm

medium: Drypoint in black ink on ivory laid paper

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


title: Vauxhall Bridge

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


title: Price's Candle Factory


title: The Dam Wood

medium: Drypoint in brown ink on off-white wove paper

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


title: Hurlingham

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


title: Ponte del Piovan

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

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


title: The Fishing Boat

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


title: Study of the Interior of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome

creator: Abbate Paolo de Angelis

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and blue wash, over traces of graphite, highlighted with white gouache

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

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

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971


title: Jug, miniature

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Gold spiral

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


title: Bottle with Figures

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Lambayeque (sicán)
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis Neal, 1970


title: Amulet

medium: Blue glass

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Stork with Branch of Peaches

medium: Jadeite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Iron baluster

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Ostracon

date: 664 BCE–1st century CE

medium: Pottery, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Crowd in a Park; page 31 from the "Images of Spain" album (F)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush, bistre and brown ink wash, traces of black chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Bass Clarinet in B-flat

creator: Giacinto Riva

date: mid-19th century

medium: boxwood, ebony, nickel-silver

country: Italian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920


title: Jasper ring stone

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Jasper, red

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: St. Thomas, from "Christ and the Apostles"

creator: Lambert Suavius

medium: Engraving; backed with a print by J. A. Fridrich

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: The Entombment, after Mantegna

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk, heightened with white

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Mary, Queen of Scots (from "Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine," volume IV)

creator: Edward Hargrave

medium: Hand-colored etching with stipple

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Le Gens de Justice, Plate 21, "Voila le ministere public qui vous dit des choses tres desagreeables"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Muriel Washer, 2013


title: Bearded Man Holding a Cup

date: early 17th century

medium: Ink and pencil on paper

credit_line: Gift of Richard Ettinghausen, 1975


title: Knife with Sheath

date: early 19th century

medium: Steel, ivory, diamond, ruby, enamel, gold

country: French, Dieppe

subjects:
Knive
French, dieppe

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: S. Martial, évêque (St. Martial, Bishop), June 30th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Small Bead

medium: Glass

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-bead Frankish


title: Circular salt

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973


title: George Washington "Grin" Bradley, 3rd Base, Sioux City Corn Huskers, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Kihei Hattori, in memory of his father, Kihei Hattori, 1920


title: Patience

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving; reverse copy

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1949


title: A Short History of General Richard Stoddart Ewell, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Toddy Ladle

creator: Joel Sayre

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Pierre François, Capture of the Vice-Admiral, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: [Man with Long Braid]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985


title: Band

medium: Trimming


title: Broadsheet relating to a train accident that killed many people, wounded victims being carried on stretchers

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: 1920 (published)

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on orange paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946


title: Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Arajishi Otokonosuke

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper; shikishiban

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Tapper Goldman, 2013


title: Piece


title: Jacobus Gibbs, Architectus

creator: Bernard Baron

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Ensemble

medium: [no medium available]

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Plain Ring

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Pair of sauceboats

creator: John Parker

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: Votive cone with cuneiform inscription of Gudea

date: ca. 2090 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Bowl with Bird of Prey

date: 11th–13th century

medium: Engraved slipware

country: Byzantine

subjects: Ceramic Byzantine Birds

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1984


title: Lagoon - Noon

creator: James McNeill Whistler

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

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

credit_line: Bequest of Bryan Lathrop


title: Long Venice

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


title: Murano - Glass Furnace

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

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


title: The Smithy

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

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


title: Lobster Pots - Selsea Bill

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

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


title: Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2

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


title: Butcher's Shop, Sandwich, Kent

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


title: The Fleet: Monitors


title: The Bucking Horse, Wild West


title: The Turret Ship

medium: Etching in black ink on cream laid paper

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


title: The Visitors' Boat

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


title: Bunting


title: Dry Docks, Southampton

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


title: Return to Tilbury


title: The Church - Brussels (Adoration)

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

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


title: Boulevard Poissonière, Paris


title: Quai de Montebello

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


title: Limehouse

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


title: Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens

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

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


title: Black Lion Wharf


title: Eagle Wharf

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


title: Thames Police


title: The Pool


title: J. Becquet, Sculptor


title: The Lime-Burner


title: Millbank

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

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


title: Rotherhithe


title: Old Hungerford Bridge


title: The Little Pool


title: High Street, Brussels


title: Petite Rue au Beurre, Brussels

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


title: Palaces, Brussels

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


title: Landscape with Figures and Horses in the Foreground

creator: Gillis Neyts

medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper

country: Flanders

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Julius Lewis


title: A Capriccio with Horses Watering in a River Outside a Walled Town

creator: Marco Ricci

medium: Gouache, on kidskin, edge mounted on wood panel

country: Italy

subjects:
Gouache
Italy
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Coating (material)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Regenstein Collection


title: Standing Figure Leaning on a Staff

creator: Piero di Cosimo

medium: Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, edge-mounted to cream wove paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink on all four sides

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Village Scene with a River and Wooden Bridge

creator: Peeter Stevens, II

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and blue washes on cream laid paper

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


title: The Champs-Elysées

creator: Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe

medium: Gouache on board

country: France

subjects:
Gouache
France
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Coating (material)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Seated Female Nude

creator: Samuel van Hoogstraten

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk and opaque white watercolor, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

country: Holland

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


title: Pinchushion

creator: United States

medium: Cover: wool, plain knitting; ribbon: silk, plain weave

country: United States

subjects:
Pincushion
United state
Sewing tool
Textile working equipment
Silk (fiber)
Textile

credit_line: Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan


title: Altar Cover

creator: Italy

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Altar
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Dewey


title: Apocalyptic Vision with Sea Gods

creator: Johann Wilhelm Baur

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Germany

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

credit_line: Bequest of Harold Joachim


title: Fan

medium: Painted white silk, rose wreaths and scrolling ornaments; ivory sticks, pierced and decorated with silver; pearl rivet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Roses
Seaweed
Fan - weaving
Costume accessory - folding fan
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson


title: Man's Jifu (Semiformal Court Robe)

creator: Manchu

medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, 1:1 plain gauze weave with supplementary brocading wefts; cuff trim: silk, plain weave; neck trim and closures: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; lined with silk, plain weave self-patterned by areas of 1:1 plain gauze crossings; cuffs lined with silk, plain weave; metal buttons

country: China

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William M. Allison


title: Bowl-Shaped Vessel with Cover (Gui) and Pierced Collar

creator: China

date: Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 A.D.), 1st century

medium: Stoneware with grayish-green glaze and underglaze incised decoration, gilt bronze applied to mouth-rim

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

credit_line: Gift of Russell Tyson


title: The Peacock Boat

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych

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

credit_line: Gift of Percy B. Eckhart


title: Cleopatra Lying at the Foot of a Tree, with a Term

creator: Master of 1515

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: The Two Armies at the Battle of Ravenna, 1512

creator: Master with the Mousetrap

medium: Engraving in black on paper

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


title: Dish

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

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels and gilding

country: Worcester

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

credit_line: Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D.


title: Coat of Arms of Alexander II

creator: Russia

date: 19th century

medium: Linen (canvas), plain weave; embroidered with wool and silk yarns in cross stitch and tent stitch

country: Russia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Russia
Coat of arms
Royalty
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Plate

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
Tableware
Dish (vessel)
Porcelain
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts


title: Cup and Saucer

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Worcester
Ships & the sea
Soft-paste porcelain
Teaware
Porcelain
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts


title: Collar

creator: Philippines

date: 18th century

medium: Pineapple fiber, plain weave; cut and drawn work; embroidered with cotton yarns in interlocking lace and single faggot stitches; Roumanian couching and darned wheels; pulled threadwork embroidered in cross, Indian drawn filling, overcast, Roumanian and single faggot stitches; Roumanian couching; embroidered in buttonhole, double running, satin and stem stitches

country: Philippines

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John C. Murphy


title: The Vicar and Moses

creator: Ralph Wood

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

country: England

subjects:
Earthenware
England
Lead-glazed earthenware
Ceramic
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Robert J. Dunham


title: Illuminated Border with Grotesques, Grapes and Berries from a Manuscript

creator: French

date: 15th or early 16th century

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with Latin inscription in gothic in red ink, on vellum

subjects:
Tempera
France
Fruits
Medieval
Manuscript
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Field Museum of Natural History Exchange


title: Illuminated Border with Flora and Grotesques from a Manuscript

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with Latin inscription in humanistic script in black ink, on vellum

subjects:
Botany
Tempera
France
Medieval
Manuscript
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Illuminated Border with Grapes, Birds and Grotesques from a Manuscript

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf on vellum

subjects:
Tempera
France
Birds
Medieval
Manuscript
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Illuminated Border with Grotesques and Flora from a Manuscript


title: Wreath

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework (visual works)
Decorative object/ornament


title: Lamp Mat


title: The Bamboo Fence

creator: Helen Hyde

medium: Color woodcut on cream Japanese paper

subjects:
Woodcut
United state
Woodcut (process)
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin F. Gillette and Mrs. Hallie Hyde Irwin


title: Fragment (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: Manufactured by the American Print Works (American, founded 1876)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller printed

country: Massachusetts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Massachusett
Propaganda
Roller printing
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Death of General Washington (Handkerchief)

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Propaganda
Block printing
Weaving - printed


title: Hanging

creator: France

medium: Cotton; damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving


title: Two Border Fragments

creator: Italy, Milan

medium: Linen, bobbin part lace

country: Milan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Milan
Lace - bobbin


title: Fragment

creator: France or Italy


title: Sewing Bird

creator: United States

medium: Brass-colored, with bird-shaped clamp and floral design on c-clamp

subjects:
Sewing tool
United state
Birds
Flowers
Textile working equipment
Hemming bird
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Nina A. Pilstrom


title: Snuff Box

medium: Gold, paste stones and metal setting

subjects:
Snuff box
Russia
Gold
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Gift of Harry H. Blum


title: Panel

creator: England

medium: Cotton and linen, twill weave; embroidered with silk

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: Frederic-Maurice Duc de Bouillon

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving in black on paper

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

credit_line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection


title: Sad Forebodings of What is Going to Happen, plate one from The Disasters of War

creator: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

medium: Etching, burin, drypoint and burnishing 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: A Monarch of Japan

medium: Color woodcut on ivory Japanese paper

subjects:
Woodcut
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Women artist


title: Before the Black Sun of Melancholy, Lenore Appears, plate two from To Edgar Poe

creator: Odilon Redon

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

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

credit_line: The Stickney Collection


title: In the Spheres (The Breath Which Leads Living Creatures is also in the Spheres), plate five from To Edgar Poe


title: J. Becquet, Sculptor

creator: James McNeill Whistler

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Thomas E. Donnelley


title: Madness, plate six from To Edgar Poe


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

medium: Etching with foul biting in brown ink on light gray laid paper

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

credit_line: Bequest of the estate of Katherine S. Dreier


title: Farrier's Shop

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

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

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

credit_line: Albert H. Wolf Memorial Collection


title: Farm Horses


title: Wagon Ascending a Slope

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on white wove paper


title: Street Cleaners

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper


title: Dead Horse


title: A Return of Youth. “Yell as much as you like, you little devil you.... my wife isn't home.... tear out my hair to your heart's content!,” plate 50 from Les beaux Jours de la vie

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


title: Neccessaire

creator: London, England

date: Mid 18th century

medium: Wood, mirror glass, and crystal

subjects:
Snuff box
England
Minerals & gems
Wood (plant material)
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Blum


title: Etui Box

creator: Probably England

medium: Gold, steel, porcelain, crystal, velvet, and silver

subjects:
Snuff box
England
Minerals & gems
Gold
European decorative arts
Metalwork


title: Inside a Butcher's Shop in Paris. “Come on my dear..... I know it is tough to sell our beef as cheap as that..... but that's no reason to weep like a calf!,” plate 75 from Actualités

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: The Kitchen

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

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

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Field


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

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

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


title: Old Putney Bridge

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

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


title: The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea

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

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


title: The Beggars

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


title: Hurlingham

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


title: The Fish Shop, Venice

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

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


title: Title Page, from Der VII Planeten

creator: Conrad Meyer

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

country: Switzerland

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

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


title: Galley

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Bohemia

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

credit_line: Gift of Langdon Pearse


title: The Rape of a Sabine Woman, View from Behind

creator: Jan Harmensz Muller (Dutch, 1571-1628)

medium: Engraving on paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Engraving
Netherland
Print
Print and drawing


title: Combat of the Lapiths and Centaurs

creator: Enea Vico

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

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


title: The Dispute between the Muses and the Daughters of Pierios on Parnassus

medium: Engraving, printed in black, on paper

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


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt, possibly Akhmin

date: 5th-6th century

medium: Linen and wool, tapestry weave

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Tree
Bird
Floral
Linen
Weaving
Coptic (historically identified as)
Roman period (egyptian)
Wool (hair)

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Snuff Box: Portrait of Saxon Prince

creator: Johann Christian Neuber

medium: Gold, hardstone, enamel, copper, glass, and pearls

country: Dresden

subjects:
Snuff box
Dresden
Portraits
Gold
Enamel
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Keating.


title: Figure of Justice and Shield with Lions Rampant

creator: European

medium: Manuscript cutting with gouache and gold paint, gold leaf, and pen and black and brown ink on vellum

country: Europe

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

credit_line: Gift of John Mardder


title: The Game of Checkers

creator: Edouard Jean Vuillard

medium: Color lithograph on grayish-ivory laid paper

country: France

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

credit_line: Berthold Loewenthal Fund


title: Twilight with Haystacks

creator: Camille Pissarro

medium: Aquatint, with etching, in black on white wove paper

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


title: Peddler (Tomb Figure)

creator: China

date: Tang dynasty (618–906), c. 8th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Earthenware
China
Terracotta
Inorganic material
Ceramic
Asian art

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham


title: Portrait of the Sculptor Auguste Rodin in his Studio

creator: Jean François Raffaëlli

medium: Opaque watercolor over black crayon, with charcoal, brush and black ink, and touches of translucent watercolor on tan board

subjects:
Crayon
France
Portraits
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Coating (material)
Gouache
Charcoal
Plant material
Black ink
Colored ink
Ink
Black crayon
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection


title: Leaf from a Picture Cycle: Christ Carrying the Cross, The Crucifixion, The Descent from the Cross, and the Entombment

creator: French Painter, active in Northern France

medium: Opaque watercolor, gold leaf and mordant gilding with French inscriptions in gothica textualis in pen and light brown, red and blue ink, on parchment

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

credit_line: The Brewster Fund


title: Globular Jar with Ring Handles

date: Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 9), 1st century B.C.

medium: Stoneware with olive-green glaze and incised, impressed decoration and relief cordons

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Russell Tyson


title: Flight into Egypt

creator: Attributed to Giovanni Baglione

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

country: Italy

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

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Leaf from a Picture Cycle: Christ Appearing to the Three Marys, Christ and the Pilgrims on the Road to Emmaus, Doubting Thomas, and Christ Appearing to the Apostles

medium: Opaque watercolor, pen and brown, red, blue and black ink, with shell gold and gold leaf on parchment.

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


title: Rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Francesco Albani

medium: Black chalk, with pen and brown and black ink and traces of red chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, laid down

subjects:
Graphite
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wash
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Red chalk
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Saint Lawrence in Glory

creator: Sigismondo Caula

medium: Brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), over black chalk, on brown laid paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Wash
Coating (material)
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Lead white
Opaque white pigment
White pigment
Pigment
Colorant
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Drapery Sketch

creator: Unknown artist

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper

subjects:
Chalk
Italy
Black chalk
Paper
Laid paper
White chalk
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper (fiber product)


title: Olympias, Mother of Alexander, Visited by Zeus in the Guise of a Serpent

creator: Attributed to Andrea Boscoli

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and grayish-green wash, on ivory 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


title: Christ in Glory with Saints

creator: Vincenzo Camuccini (Italian, 1771-1844)

medium: Pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, on brown tinted laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Gouache
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: The Last Supper

creator: Master I.A.M. of Zwolle

medium: Engraving in black on buff laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Ceiling Design with Psyche and Mercury

creator: Attributed to Pietro Liberi

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on brown paper, laid down on ivory laid card

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wash
Lead white
Opaque white pigment
White pigment
Pigment
Colorant
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Scent Bottle

creator: Berlin, Germany

date: Late 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gold mounts

country: Germany

subjects:
Porcelain
Germany
Hard-paste porcelain
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Catharine Oglesby


title: Mirabeau arrive aux Champs Elisees (Mirabeau arrives at the Elysian Fields)

creator: Louis-Joseph Masquelier (French, 1744-1811)

date: Published 1792

medium: Engraving in black on ivory wove paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Col. Robert R. McCormick


title: Snuff Box: Portrait of Tsar Alexander I

creator: Vienna, Austria

medium: Gold, enamel, and glass

country: Vienna

subjects:
Snuff box
Vienna
Portraits
Gold
Enamel
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Blum


title: Gold Box with a Scene of Two Figures in a Landscape

creator: Possibly Switzerland

medium: Gold and enamel

subjects:
Snuff box
Switzerland
Landscapes
Gold
Enamel
European decorative arts
Metalwork


title: Mercury and Argus

creator: Style of Pier Francesco Mola

medium: Brush and brown wash, over red and black chalk, with brush and red chalk wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on tan laid paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Wash
Coating (material)
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Red chalk
Lead white
Opaque white pigment
White pigment
Pigment
Colorant
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Sketches of Putti, Legs

creator: Attributed to Ercole Proccacini, the younger

medium: Red chalk, with black chalk, on tan laid paper

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


title: Battle Scene with Horsemen

creator: Zacharias Blyhooft

medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on card

country: Holland

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


title: Ruin

creator: Follower of Jan Both

medium: Pen and gray ink, and brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite on ivory laid paper, laid down on card

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


title: Rocks and Mountain Path, Figures and Town Below

creator: Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Dutch, 1598-1657)

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Wash
Laid paper
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Approaching Storm; Wind Blown Trees; Boy and Dog Running Home

creator: Circle of Egbert van Drielst

medium: Brush with black and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Holland
Trees
Wash
Laid paper
Black chalk
Chalk
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper (fiber product)


title: Seated Man in Mantle by Thatched Hut

creator: Follower of Herman Saftleven, III (German, 1609-1685)

medium: Black chalk, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Charcoal
Germany
Black chalk
Laid paper
Wash
Chalk
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper (fiber product)


title: Landscape with Figures by a Stream

creator: Johannes Glauber or school of

medium: Black chalk on orange tinted laid paper

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


title: Buildings Amid Ruins in Roman Campagna

creator: Guilliam Dujardin

medium: Black chalk on ivory laid paper

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


title: Man and Boy Walking Down Village Road

creator: Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596-1656)

medium: Black chalk, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Holland
Black chalk
Wash
Chalk
Laid paper
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper (fiber product)


title: Apollo

creator: After Jan Harmensz Muller

medium: Pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), over black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Lead white
Opaque white pigment
White pigment
Pigment
Colorant
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Italianate Landscape with Shepherd and Flock by Stream, Town in the Distance

creator: Jan van Huysum

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

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Holland
Landscapes
Ink
Laid paper
Wash
Black chalk
Chalk
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper (fiber product)


title: Wooded Landscape with Donkeys and Goats, and Castle on Hill in Distance

creator: After Pieter Bruegel, the elder

medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper

country: Flanders

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


title: Basket of Cupids

creator: Attributed to Jan Boeckhorst

medium: Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper (chine collé)

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


title: Vision of Philip Neri

creator: Attributed to Anthonie van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641)

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

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


title: Design for Frontispiece to the Seven Virtues

creator: Joannes Stradanus, called Giovanni Stradano

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, incised for transfer

subjects:
Ink with wash
Flander
Incising
Paper (fiber product)
Black chalk
Chalk
Inorganic material
Lead white
Opaque white pigment
White pigment
Pigment
Colorant
Brown ink
Colored ink
Ink
Coating (material)
Brown wash
Wash
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Melchisedech Blessing Abraham, from Opera Selectoria

creator: John Baptist Jackson (English, 1701-1780)

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut in buff, light brown, dark brown, and dark gray on off-white laid paper

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

credit_line: Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund


title: The Massacre of the Innocents, from Opera Selectiora

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut in buff, violet-gray, light brown and dark violet-brown on off-white laid paper

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


title: A Young Man Who is the Pride and Hope of the Badinguet Family, plate 16 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: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club


title: Saint Mark Saving a Slave from Torture, from Opera Selectiora

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in buff, warm gray, brown, and dark brown on off-white paper


title: Death of Ananias

creator: John Constable (English, 1776-1837)

medium: Pen and black ink and brush and black ink and gray wash on cream wove paper

subjects:
Ink and wash
England
Paper (fiber product)
Black ink
Colored ink
Ink
Coating (material)
Gray wash
Wash
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Penitent Magdalene

creator: After Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian

medium: Red chalk, with stumping, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Chalk
Italy
Stumping
Paper (fiber product)
Red chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing technique
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: “You know, Monsieur Beaufumé, actually you have kept damned well considering your age. This costume suits you perfectly.... just too bad that it does not look good on everybody,” plate 36 from Croquis D'été

medium: Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper

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


title: Seated Man Seen from the Back

creator: Unknown Artist

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Graphite
Laid paper
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: View from within the Roman Forum

creator: Circle of Willem van Nieulandt II

medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and pale blue and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

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


title: Seated Monk in Profile to Right

creator: Possibly Bartolomeo Cesi (Italian, 1556-1629)

medium: Red chalk on ivory laid paper

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


title: The Last Judgment

creator: Alart du Hameel (Netherlandish, c. 1449–c. 1506)

medium: Engraving in black on buff laid paper

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


title: Two-Handled Cup with Cover

creator: Isaac Dighton

medium: Silver

country: London

subjects:
Drinking vessel
London
Ships & the sea
Silver
Nonferrous metal
Metal
Inorganic material
Metalwork
European decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Garrard B. Winston.


title: Snuff Box

creator: Possibly Switzerland

medium: Gold and enamel

subjects:
Snuff box
Switzerland
Gold
Enamel
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: Gift of Harry H. Blum


title: Coffee Pot

creator: Fuller White

medium: Silver and wood

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

credit_line: Bequest of Garrard B. Winston


title: Tray

creator: John Tuite


title: Martyrdom of a Saint

creator: Attributed to Jacopo Cavedone (Italian, 1577-1660)

medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, and blue gouache, heightened with beige gouache, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

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


title: Candlestick

creator: Probably Ebenezer Coker

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


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: House of Lords

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Netsuke of Old Man Sitting on a Rock

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Pair of Greaves (lower leg defenses)

medium: Steel

country: possibly German

subjects:
Possibly german
Armor parts-greave

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1921


title: Diana and three nymphs from "Diana Returning from the Chase"

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

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


title: Sard intaglio: Isis

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Sard

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Funerary Cone of the Deputy of the Medjay Simut

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Vase

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown, etched, and enameled Pomona glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hollihan III, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent F. Apicella, 1992


title: Border (five points)

medium: Needle lace, punto in aria

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: His Excellency George Washington Esq-r.

creator: Charles Willson Peale

medium: Mezzotint, with hand coloring

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Abhisarika Nayika, a Heroine Longing for Her Lover

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Punjab Hills, Kangra)

subjects:
Painting
India (punjab hills, kangra)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware; Redware with sgraffito decoration

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1933


title: "The Father's Advice Followed by a Son who Sets out to Join a Caravan with the Two Oxen", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1981


title: Reliefs from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Tea Caddy

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1954


title: Bearded  Old Man Seated with Left Arm Extented

creator: Bernardino Campi

medium: Black chalk, highlighted with white, on blue-gray paper; squared in black chalk

credit_line: Gift of H. M. Calmann, 1961


title: Relief fragment from the tomb of Meketre


title: Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Selene and Endymion

date: early 3rd century CE

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Bracelet

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Brass

country: Yoruba peoples, Ijebu group

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Yoruba peoples, ijebu group

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, 1991


title: Mihrab (Prayer Niche)

date: dated 755 AH/1354–55 CE

medium: Mosaic of polychrome-glazed cut tiles on stonepaste body; set into mortar

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Glass hexagonal jug

date: 6th to early 7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: A Pair of Geese with Camellias

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Canopic jar with baboon head

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900


title: Rocking Melodeon

medium: Wood, leather, cloth, metal

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange with The New York Public Library, 1976.


title: Gianfrancesco Trivulzio 1504-73, Marchese of Vigevano, Count of Mesocco 1518-49, Rheinwald and Stoss

creator: Pietro Paolo Galeotti

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of The Mark and Lottie Salton Trust, 2021


title: Cauldron

date: 12th–13th century

credit_line: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Leaf from an Illuminated Buddhist Manuscript

date: 14th century

medium: Ink and color on palm leaves

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Painting
Nepal (kathmandu valley)
Palms

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtis, 1953


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 54r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Calligraphic Exercise in Spanish

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and black and brown ink.

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Bodice for an altar figure

medium: Silk, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Pratt Institute, 1934


title: Pinkney, 3rd Base, Brooklyn, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Illustrated book

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Ptah Figure

medium: Faience

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Candlestick

creator: Jacob Hurd

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Dagger (Kard)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, tooth

country: Persian

subjects: Knive Persian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Fountain of Love

creator: Pierre Aveline

medium: Etching, proof state

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


title: Steamship America, National Line, from the Ocean and River Steamers series (N83) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: On the Beach (from "The Mistress of the Parsonage," in "Harper's Weekly")

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Token of Franklin Pierce

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Dolman

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: The Jacqueline Loewe Fowler Costume Collection, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 1980


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Two Men and a Boat

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Conté crayon and white chalk on brown wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Sk-A'Na

date: 19th century

medium: wood (red cedar or spruce), cord

country: Skittagetan, Xaadas (Haida), Native American

subjects: Skittagetan, xaada (haida), native american

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Woodcutter, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 29

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

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


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Inlay, hieroglyph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Bottle

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Interior View of the Coliseum

creator: Attributed to Lodewijk Toeput

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and black and green washes, over black chalk, on cream laid paper

country: Flanders

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

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Moses and the Brazen Serpent

creator: Unknown Artist

medium: Pen and brown ink, over graphite, on tan laid paper, tipped onto gray laid paper

country: Italy

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


title: Fragment (Band)

creator: Possibly Chimú

medium: Slit tapestry

country: Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru
Chimú
Weaving
Andean
Ande
Latin american

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Band Fragment

creator: Possibly north or central coast, Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru
Weaving
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Three Male Caricatures

creator: Pier Francesco Mola (Italian, 1612-1666)

medium: Pen and iron gall ink on buff laid paper

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


title: Venus and Paris

creator: Attributed to Pietro Dandini

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

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


title: Hunter with Dog, Other Figures in Landscape with Villa, Canal, Pyramid

creator: Gaspar van Wittel

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on brown wove paper

country: Netherlands

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


title: Man Lying Down, Arm Over Head

date: 17th century

medium: Red chalk, with black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on grayish-tan wove paper

country: Europe

subjects:
Chalk
Europe
Paper (fiber product)
Black chalk
Laid paper
Red chalk
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Landscape with River and Mill

medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper

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


title: Village with Windmill and Church

creator: Attributed to Paul Theodor van Brussel

medium: Graphite on ivory laid paper

country: Holland

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


title: Male Nude Tied to Tree

creator: Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

medium: Black chalk, with pen and brown ink retouching, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

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


title: Head of Venus de Medici

creator: Vincenzo Dandini

medium: Red chalk, with stumping, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card

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


title: Three Panels: Visitation Flanked by Standing Figures of David and Unidentified Prophet

creator: Possibly after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

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

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


title: Venus and Adonis

creator: Attributed to Gennaro Landi

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray and pink wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, pricked for transfer

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


title: The Phrygian Sibyl

creator: Attributed to Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving in gray on buff laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Panel

creator: France, Bordeaux or Nantes

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed

country: France

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

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Border (Fragment)

creator: Belgium, Flanders

medium: Cotton, bobbin part lace (cloth work tapes)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Flander
Lace - bobbin

credit_line: Gift of Edward Morris in memory of his wife


title: Alphonse Daudet (French novelist, 1849-1897)

creator: Etienne Carjat

medium: Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 1

subjects:
Woodburytype
France
Collected by hugh edward
Contemporaine littéraire
Photographic paper
Photomechanical process
Photography
Photograph

credit_line: Photography Gallery Fund


title: Les Adieux (Goodbyes, from Monument du Costume Physique et Moral de la fin du Dix-huitième siècle)

creator: Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739-1792)

medium: Engraving and etching in black ink on ivory laid paper

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

credit_line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club


title: Oedipe. “- When my sword cut into his bleeding heart - You are trembling Madame - It was then that the world was falling apart,” plate ten from Physionomies tragiques

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper

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

credit_line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund


title: Harlequin

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Pastel on cream laid paper, pieced at bottom and right and laid down on board

subjects:
Pastel
France
Pastel (crayons)
Laid paper
Crayon
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper (fiber product)
Paper

credit_line: Bequest of Loula D. Lasker


title: Leaving the Bath

medium: Drypoint and aquatint on cream laid paper

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt or Syria

date: Arab period (641–969)/Fatimid period (969–1171)/Ayyubid period (1171–1250), 10th/12th century

medium: Silk, gauze weave

country: Egypt

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

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund


title: Fragment

creator: Italy

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet

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


title: Penny Picture Display, Savannah

creator: Walker Evans

medium: Gelatin silver print

country: United States

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

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. James Ward Thorne


title: Rue du Chasseur, Rouen

creator: Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

medium: Etching in black on Japanese paper

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


title: Emelia, Italy

medium: Etching in black on cream wove paper


title: Panel

creator: France, Lyon

date: Empire period, 1810/13

medium: Silk, satin weave self-patterned by ground wefts bound in twill interlacings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Empire
Weaving

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment