title: Voltaire Arriving in Hell Riding Jean-Jacques Rousseau

creator: Unknown artist

medium: Etching on cream laid paper

credit_line: Joseph T. Ryerson Endowment


title: Spring

creator: David Lucas (English, 1802-1881)

medium: Mezzotint in black ink on heavy ivory wove paper

country: England

subjects: Mezzotint England

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: Mary S. Adams and Mary A. Young Endowment


title: The River Stour, from Various Subjects of English Landscape Scenery

subjects: Mezzotint England Landscapes

credit_line: George B. and Mary A. Young Fund


title: Noon

medium: Mezzotint in black ink on ivory wove paper


title: Autumnal Sun Set


title: Summer Morning

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Endowment


title: Yarmouth, Norfolk


title: A Dell, Helmingham Park, Suffolk

credit_line: Stanley Field Endowment


title: Summer Evening


title: A Seabeach


title: A Heath


title: Mill Stream


title: Stoke by Neyland, Suffolk


title: A Summerland


title: Old Sarum


title: A Lock on the Stour, Suffolk


title: A Mill

credit_line: Everett D. Graff Endowment


title: River Stour, Suffolk

date: 1830, published 1831

credit_line: Hannan Endowment


title: Summer Afternoon - After a Shower


title: Weymouth Bay, Dorsetshire


title: Vignette to Mr. Constable's English Landscape. Hampstead Heath Middlesex. Ut Umbra sic Vita

credit_line: Henry Huxley Endowment


title: Hadleigh Castle Near the Nore


title: Fortune and the Young Child

creator: Horace Vernet

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

country: France

subjects: Lithograph France

credit_line: Robert Chase Endowment


title: The Smoker

creator: Jozef Israëls

medium: Engraving on tan wove paper

country: Holland

subjects: Engraving Holland

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph Gunsaulus


title: A Romantic Landscape with a Ruined Castle

creator: Robert Adam

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

country: United Kingdom

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
United kingdom
Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Leger Galleries, London, in memory of Dr. William D. Shorey


title: The Glebe


title: The Cow and Ass

creator: Charles Meryon (French, 1821-1868)

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

subjects: Etching France

credit_line: Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection


title: Domestic Maronite

creator: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

medium: Etching and aquatint in sepia on ivory laid paper

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


title: Madonna and Child with Three Saints

creator: Possibly after Pierre Subleyras (French, 1699-1749)

medium: Black chalk, with brush and gray wash, on yellowish-tan laid paper

subjects: Chalk France

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Mary Magdalene washing Jesus' Feet

creator: Pierre Subleyras

medium: Etching on paper


title: The Brazen Serpent of Moses

creator: Pierre Subleyras, French, 1699-1749

medium: Etching on off-white laid paper


title: Study of a Warship's Prow with British Warships and Naples Harbor Beyond

creator: Claude-Joseph Vernet

medium: Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and dark gray, light gray and brownish gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

subjects:
France
Drawing (visual works)

credit_line: Regenstein Endowment Fund


title: Madame Pierre Lullin-Fatio

creator: Possibly François Jalabert or Jallabert

date: 1763, after a drawing dated April 1762

medium: Etching and engraving in black on buff laid paper (discolored to tan), tipped onto ivory wove paper

country: Switzerland

subjects: Etching Switzerland

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Endowment Fund


title: The Duc d’Orléans, and His Son

creator: Louis de Carmontelle

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Ralph Weil Fund in memory of Sam Carini


title: Portrait of Flora MacDonald

creator: Attributed to George Hayter

medium: Pen and brown ink, with traces of red colored pencil, over graphite, on cream wove paper

subjects:
Botany
Pen and ink drawing
England
Portraits


title: Sale Pretroriane, Villa Adriana

medium: Pen and brown and black ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue wove paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
England


title: Satyr with Two Pipes and Putto and Woman Taking Drink from Tree

creator: After Guilio Romano

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

country: Italy

subjects:
Ink with wash
Italy
Trees


title: Standing Man in Armour Holding Lance

creator: George Hayter (English, 1792-1871)

medium: Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
England


title: Fragment from a Border

creator: Italy

date: 17th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund


title: fragment

creator: Morocco

date: 19th century

medium: Embroidered

country: Morocco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Morocco

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Fragment

medium: embroidery

credit_line: Gift of Carolyn M. Wicker


title: Belt

creator: Meknès, Morocco, Africa

medium: Silk embroidery on cotton cloth. Stitch: Holbein stitich, stem stitch, buttonhole stitch. Edge of belt is finished with buttonhole stitch and ends have silk fringes

credit_line: Gift of Samuel A. Marx


title: Fragment

medium: Two bands of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk flossin back, Bosnian, chained border, double running, hem, and single faggot stitches; joined by buttonhole and singel feather stitches


title: Fragment (Border)

creator: Morocco, Meknès

medium: Silk embroidery on cream-colored cotton voile. Stitch: Holbein-stitch, stem-stitch


title: Fragment (Border)

medium: Silk embroidery on cotton satin. Stitch: long armed cross-stitch


title: Fragment (Border)

creator: Morocco, Fès

medium: Silk embroidery on plain, cream-colored cotton cloth. Stitch: Holbein-stitch over three threads, stem-stitch


title: Fragment (Border)

medium: Silk embroidery on fine cream-colored cotton cloth. Stitch: Holbein stitch, stem stitch


title: Fragment (Mattress Cover)

medium: Silk embroidery on plain cream-colored cotton cloth. Stitch: Holbein stitch over three threads


title: Scarf

medium: Silk embroidery on plain cream-colored cotton cloth. Stitch: Holbein stitch over 2 threads. Stem stitch, button-hole stitch


title: Fragment

medium: Silk embroidery on plain, cream-colored cotton cloth. Stitch: Holbein stitch over four threads, stem stitch


title: Fragment (Border)

creator: Morocco, Azemmour

medium: Silk embroidery on plain, cream-colored cotton cloth rather coarse. Stitch: long armed cross-stitch, Holbein stitch, herringbone stitch, cross on one side, square on the other side


title: Fragment (From a pillowcase)

medium: Silk embroidery on plain cream-colored cotton cloth. Stitch: Holbein stitch over four threads, stem stitch, satin stitch, star stitch; buttonhole stitched edges


title: Fragment

medium: Silk embroidered on plain cream-colored cotton cloth. Stitch: Holbein stitch over four threads, stem-stitch, star-stitch


title: Fragments

medium: Silk, plain weave; embroidered in stem, herringbone, plaiting, and Holbein stitches


title: Fragment (Border)

medium: textile


title: Fragment (Border)

medium: geometric design in blue silk on white linen


title: Double Panel

creator: Possibly Mangbetu

date: Mid–/late 19th century

medium: Raffia, stripes of plain 1:1 gauze crossings and bands of plain weave and complementary weft plain weave self-patterned by complementary ground weft floats with ground weft and knotted main warp fringe

country: Democratic Republic of the Congo

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Democratic republic of the congo

credit_line: Harriott A. Fox Endowment


title: Young Woman from Frascati

creator: After Nicolas Vleughels (French, 1668-1737)

medium: Black chalk with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
France


title: Waistcoat Front Panel

creator: India, for the European Market

medium: Cotton, plain weave foundation; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk thread in chain stitches

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Waistcoat Front Panel

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in chain stitches

country: India

subjects:
Waistcoat (garment)
India


title: Plates

creator: Jules-Paul Brateau

medium: Pewter

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
France

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


title: Christ and the disciples at Emmaus

creator: Giovanni Battista Fontana

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

subjects: Print Italy

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


title: Barometer

creator: Vulliamy London

medium: Marble, gilt bronze, biscuit porcelain

subjects: Clock England

credit_line: Robert Allerton Fund


title: Pendant Shaped as a Horseman

creator: Austrian

date: c. 1860/70, second half of the 19th century

medium: Gold, enamel, diamonds, and pearls

country: Austria

subjects:
Pendant (jewelry)
Austria

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Pendant

creator: Italian

date: cameo: 15th/16th century; frame: 17th/18th century; mounts: 19th century

medium: Cameo: agate; mount: rock crystal and gold

subjects:
Pendant (jewelry)
Italy
Minerals & gems


title: Pendant with Venus and Cupid

creator: Northern European

date: third quarter of the 19th century

medium: Gold, enamel, and pearl

country: Europe

subjects:
Pendant (jewelry)
Europe


title: Pendant

creator: Spanish

medium: Enameled gold and rock crystal (missing interior image)

country: Spain

subjects:
Pendant (jewelry)
Spain
Minerals & gems


title: Drinking and Dancing before the Tribal Chief

creator: Leng Mei (Chinese, 1669-1742)

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), late 17th to early 18th century

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

country: China

subjects:
Drinking vessel
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: History of the Life of Tao Yuanming

creator: Li Zongmo (Chinese, active c. 1573–1636)

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

subjects: Handscroll China


title: The Xuehong Pavilion in a Scholar's Garden

medium: Handscroll; ink and colors on gold-spattered paper

credit_line: The Orientals Sundry Fund


title: The Bamboo Slope 竹坡圖

credit_line: Gift of Wan-go H. C. Weng


title: Panel

creator: Isfahan, Iran

medium: Cotton; painted and printed

country: Iran

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Iran

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Voevodsky in memory of Mrs. Edmund A. Russel


title: Mercury, plate 42 from Planets and Spheres

creator: Master of the E-Series Tarocchi

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects: Astronomy Engraving Italy

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


title: Mars, plate 45 from Planets and Spheres


title: Throne of Neptune

creator: Marco Dente da Ravenna

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

subjects: Engraving Italy

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Giovanni Filoteo Achillini

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: The Temptation of Saint Anthony

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut in black on cream laid paper

country: Germany

subjects: Woodcut Germany

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Potter Palmer, II


title: The Farnese Bull with Dirce, Zethus and Amphion

creator: Diana Scultori

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

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


title: The Elephants, from The Triumph of Julius Caesar

creator: Workshop of Andrea Mantegna

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Faun Attacking a Snake

creator: School of Andrea Mantegna

subjects:
Engraving
Italy
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson


title: Baccio Bandinelli

creator: Nicolò della Casa (French, active in Rome, 1543–1548)

subjects:
Print and drawing
Italy

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


title: Breaker Boys In Coal Chute, South Pittston, Pennsylvania

creator: Lewis Wickes Hine

medium: Gelatin silver print

country: United States

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

credit_line: Gift of David Vestal


title: Two Lovers

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

date: 18th century

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban

country: Japan

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frank E. Hart


title: Lovers in Bed, from an untitled series of erotic prints

creator: Isoda Koryusai 礒田 湖龍斎

date: late 18th century


title: Two Women with Drum


title: Procession of Russian Marching Band, from the Album of seven prints of Russian Army and Warship (Roshia seigi shashin kan), 1853

creator: Kawahara Keiga  川原 慶賀

medium: Color woodblock print

credit_line: Japanese Print Purchase Fund Purchased from Carl H. Boehringer, Bay City, Michigan


title: Pole Screen with Venus and Cupid

creator: England

date: Late 18th century

medium: Mahogany, hand colored engraving, gilding, and metal mounts

country: England

subjects: Screen England

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard Linn


title: Spittoon

creator: Austria, Vienna

medium: Cherry veneer with zinc insert

credit_line: Gift of Rita Bucheit, Ltd.


title: Urn

creator: England or France

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Functional object
England

credit_line: Gift of The Heim Gallery in honor of John Maxon


title: Candlestick

creator: Italy, Rome

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Candleholder - candlestick
Italy

credit_line: Florence L. Notter Fund


title: Saint Paul

subjects: Sculpture Italy

credit_line: David Adler and Decorative Arts fund


title: Saint Peter


title: Saint Andrew


title: Iwai Kumesaburo II as the Courtesan Takao in Banzei Okuni Kabuki

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I

medium: Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Roberta and H. George Mann


title: The Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya and her attendant, from the series "Fans of the East (Azuma ogi)"

creator: Isoda Koryusai

medium: Color woodblock print; bai aiban

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Fujiwara no Shihei (Tokihira, Minister of the Left), in Ume Sakura Aioi-zoshi

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

medium: Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e (fan print)

credit_line: Margaret Gentles Fund


title: Jewels in the Cool Light of Evening Dew (Ryoko yotsuyu no rama)

creator: Kunisada Utagawa I

credit_line: Mrs. Daniel Green Purchased with funds provided by


title: Emblem of the God Shiva (Linga)

creator: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand or Vietnam

date: Angkor period, 9th–13th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Southeast Asia

subjects:
Sandstone
Southeast asia

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Edging

creator: Eastern Mediterranean, probably Cyprus

medium: Silk and horsehair, needle lace

country: Eastern Mediterranean Region

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Eastern mediterranean region

credit_line: Gift of Caroline Wicker


title: Edging

medium: Silk, horsehair, and cotton, needle lace


title: Edging

medium: Silk, needle lace


title: Edging

credit_line: Gift of the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Darning Sampler

creator: Netherlands

medium: Embroidered in multicolored silks on canvas

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Netherland

credit_line:
Gift of Mrs. Charles H. Schweppe

*Gift of Mrs. C. H. Schweppe


title: Title-page and page 40, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

creator: Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (French, 1715-1783) and Pierre Aveline (French, 1702-1760)

date: published 1745

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: France

subjects: Etching France

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


title: Page 45 and Page 48, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

creator: François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)


title: Page 41, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

creator: Pierre Soubeyran (Swiss, 1709-1775)

country: Switzerland

subjects: Etching Switzerland


title: Page 44, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

creator: Charles-Joseph Natoire (French, 1700-1777)


title: Page 38 and Page 39, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

creator: Collin de Vermont (French, 1693-1761)

medium: Etching (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper


title: Mystical Diagram (Yantra)

creator: India

medium: Opaque watercolor on cloth

country: Rajasthan

subjects: Watercolor Rajasthan


title: Snow on the Sumida River, from the series, Snow, Moon, and Flowers

creator: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849)

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Gaylord Donnelley


title: Qur'an leaf in Muhaqqaq script

creator: Egypt

date: Mamluk period, c. A.H. 728 / A.D. 1327

medium: Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper

country: Egypt

subjects: Watercolor Egypt

credit_line: Louise A. Lutz Estate


title: Three Chinese Children

creator: Japanese

medium: Color woodblock print

credit_line: Japanese Print Purchase Fund


title: Picture of a Dutch Man and Woman 阿蘭陀人男女之図 (Orando jinjo no zu) ee description

creator: Unknown Artist

date: late 18th century to mid 19th century

credit_line: Japanese Print Purchase Fund Purchased from Carl H. Boehringer, Bay City, Michigan


title: Wind and Thunder God Playing Go

creator: Unknown artist (Japanese)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. George Mann


title: The Austerities of Saint Mongaku

creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Youngquist


title: Boy Holding Hourglass and Chinese Fan

creator: Attrib. Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739-1820)


title: Peddler and Travelers

creator: Matsukawa Hanzan (Japanese, c.1820/1882)

medium: Color wood block print

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Mr. Edward Nahem purchased from. Louise Lutz purchased with funds provided by


title: Lady Standing by a Stream Viewing Maple Trees in Autumn

creator: Yabu Chosui (Japanese, 1814-c. 1870)

subjects: Print Japan Trees


title: Blossoming red plum branch

creator: Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese, 1796-1858)

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

credit_line: Purchased from R. E. Lewis, Inc. Calif. Nathalie Gookin Fund in memory of Frederick Gookin


title: Two formally dressed rats about to execute the first calligraphy of the year

creator: Shibata Zeshin (Japanese, 1807-1891)

credit_line: Louise Lutz Purchased with funds provided by


title: Key block for a print from the series "Toto meisho" (Famous Views of the Eastern Capital)

creator: Utagawa Sadahide

date: undated (c. 1850s)

medium: Color woodblock print, ôban

credit_line: Louise A. Lutz Oriental Endowment


title: Yagi of the Mimasuya as Yaegiri from the Play Komochi Yamanba, from the series Gion Shrine Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai, nerimono sugata)

creator: Urakusai Nagahide

medium: Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woodblock print
Japan

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Fischer and Margaret Gentles funds


title: King of Hell

creator: Artist Unknown

date: Early 16th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gold on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson and Russell Tyson Endowments


title: Mountainous landscape

creator: Artist unknown (Japanese)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Landscapes

credit_line: Mr. & Mrs. Richard V. Henry, Jr. gift


title: Embroidered Picture

creator: Japan

medium: Silk; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan

credit_line: Gift of George B. Harris


title: Two Borders

creator: Possibly Hungary

medium: Silk, bobbin part lace with knotted tassels

country: Hungary

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Hungary

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Les Invalides du Sentiment: Philibert le mauvais sujet

creator: Paul Gavarni

medium: Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

subjects: Lithograph France

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Benjamin K. Smith


title: Man Crossing Log Bridge over Torrent

creator: Style of Allart van Everdingen (Dutch, 1621-1675)

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on pale gray laid paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Netherland

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Maize and Cockscombs

creator: Artist unknown

date: mid 17th century

medium: Six-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on paper

subjects: Screen Japan

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Millet Fields under Sun and Moon

date: 17th century

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

credit_line: Restricted Gift of the Rice Foundation


title: Tamba-Ware Jar

creator: Japanese

date: 15th century

medium: Stoneware with ash glaze

subjects: Stoneware Japan

credit_line: Through prior gifts of the of the American Friends of China, Mrs. William Bloom, Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, Polly Root Collier, W. Everett Fox, Newton S. Noble, Jr., and Russell Tyson


title: Shigaraki-Ware Jar

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by The Rice Foundation


title: Tokoname-Ware Jar

date: 14th century


title: Shigaraki-Ware Jar

date: 16th century

credit_line: Gift of Roger L. Weston


title: Shigaraki-Ware Jar

credit_line: Frederick W. and Nathalie C. Gookin Endowment


title: Roosters and Blossoming Apricots 雄鷄圖

creator: Ren Yi 任頤 (Chinese, 1840-1895)

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China

credit_line: Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair


title: Strange Rocks

creator: Gao Yang （高陽）

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), early 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

credit_line: Russell Tyson Purchase Fund


title: Melting the Gold and Predicting the Future

creator: Yu Guiyan 郁桂岩 (Chinese, 1859-1930?)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk


title: Bathing of the Buddha Festival

creator: Hua Ziyou 華子宥 (Chinese, 19th century)

date: Qing dynasty, 1833

medium: Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham


title: The Four Accomplishments: Painting

creator: Artist unknown (Chinese, c. 1550-1644)

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), late 16th/17th century

medium: Hanging scroll mounted on a panel; ink and colors on silk

credit_line: Gift of Guy H. Mitchell


title: An Unhappy Family

creator: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758-1823)

date: published March 10, 1822

medium: Lithograph on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)

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


title: Border

creator: England

date: Queen Anne period (1702–1714), early 18th century

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England

credit_line: Gift of David Adler


title: Handkerchief

creator: French

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France


title: Panel

date: 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Miss Joanna Fortune


title: Cameo Portrait of Andrew Jackson

creator: Italy

date: Mid 19th century

medium: Ivory and hardstone

country: Italy

subjects: Jewelry Italy Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Miss Martha Throop, Vermont


title: Handkerchief

creator: Philippines

medium: Pineapple fiber, plain weave; cut and drawn work embroidered with silk and cotton in darned squares, interlocking, overcast and single faggot stitches; and embroidered with cotton in back, buttonhole, cross, individual satin, satin, stem and twined double running stitches

country: Philippines

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Philippine

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Edward E. Ayer in memory of Edward E. Ayer


title: Border

date: 1875/1900 (revival lace)

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in buttohole, double hem, hem, and overcast stitches; cut and drawn work with silk in needle lace filling stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy


title: Fragment

creator: France

medium: Silk, gilt-metal strips, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and supplementary patterning wefts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin Austrian


title: Notebook Cover


title: Two Monkeys

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels

country: Bow

subjects: Porcelain Bow

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher


title: Sampler

creator: Mexico

date: 19th century

medium: Linen; silk on linen

country: Mexico

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Mexico

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles H. Worcester


title: Sampler


title: Sampler


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; cut and drawnwork; embroidered with silk floss, and silk yarns in darning, double faggot, hem, interlocking, knotted and overcast stitches; embroidered in the back, cross, detached chain, double running, feather, hem, interlacing, long-armed cross, running, atin, and stem stitches


title: Pair of Shoe Buckles

creator: London, England

date: Last quarter 18th century

medium: Silver and paste jewels

subjects:
Buckle (strap accessory)
England

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Ogden Armour through the Antiquarian Society


title: Pair of Shoe Buckles

medium: Cut steel, leather, and iron


title: Pair of Shoe Buckles

date: Late 18th to early 19th century

medium: Steel, copper and brass plated


title: Pair of Shoe Buckles

medium: Silver, copper or gold, and paste jewels


title: Shoe Buckle

creator: Edward Fennel

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Ogden Armour through The Antiquarian Society


title: Pair of Buckles

date: Late 18th century

medium: Silver and steel


title: God Shiva Seated with the Seven Mother Goddesses (Saptamatrika)

creator: India

date: 10th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Madhya Pradesh

subjects:
Stone
Madhya pradesh

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


title: Votive Plaque with God Vishnu

creator: Nepal

medium: Gilt bronze with ivory, semiprecious stones, crystal, and glass

country: Kathmandu Valley

subjects:
Bronze
Kathmandu valley
Minerals & gems

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Study of a Singer

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Charcoal and fabricated black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on greenish gray wove paper, perimeter mounted to millboard

subjects: Charcoal France

credit_line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray


title: Ornamental Frieze with Two Battling Tritons

creator: Sebald Beham

medium: Woodcut in black on cream laid paper

country: Germany

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print and drawing
Germany

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


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Unknown Artist

medium: Metalcut from two plates in black, with hand-coloring, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Dotted/metal cut
Germany

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Two Boys

creator: L. W. Felt

medium: Albumen print

country: United States

subjects:
Albumen silver print
United state

credit_line: Gift of Rafael Fernandez


title: Untitled (Two Sisters)


title: Coal Wharf, Alexandria, Virginia

creator: Andrew J. Russell

credit_line: Hugh Edwards Fund


title: Untitled

creator: Georgina Cowper, attributed

medium: Paint on paper

country: England

subjects: Photograph England

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Photo Gallery


title: Auld Lang Syne Album

medium: Album (albumen prints, drawings, text and newspaper clippings)

subjects: Album/sketchbook England


title: Untitled

medium: Ink on paper


title: Untitled

medium: Albumen print, ink, and thread


title: Untitled

medium: Ink on paper and newspaper clippings


title: Untitled


title: Untitled

medium: Albumen prints (5)


title: Untitled

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper


title: Untitled

medium: Albumen print, ink on paper and drief flowers

subjects: Photograph England Flowers


title: Saint Martin with his Horse in a Ship

creator: Johannes and Lucas van Doetecum (Flemish, active in Antwerp, 1554-1575)

medium: Etching and engraving on paper

country: Flanders

subjects:
Engraving
Flander
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley and William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: Ruins of the Colosseum in Rome

creator: Circle of Willem van Nieuwlandt, II

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, on pieced cream laid paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Flander

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: The Trinity

creator: Johann Ladenspelder

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects: Engraving Germany

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Thomiris, Queen of the Scyths, with the Head of Cyrus

creator: Paulus Pontius (Flemish, 1603–1658)

medium: Engraving in black on laid paper

subjects: Engraving Flander

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


title: The Birth and the First Seven Steps of the Buddha

creator: Pakistan

date: Kushan period, about 2nd/3rd century

medium: Phyllite

country: Gandhara

subjects: Sculpture Gandhara

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Fund


title: Head of a Bodhisattva

creator: Afghanistan or Pakistan

date: Kushan period, About 3rd/5th century

medium: Stucco with traces of red pigment

subjects: Bust/head Gandhara


title: Head of a Bodhisattva

date: 4th/6th century

medium: Stucco with traces of pigment

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Buddha Worshipped by the Gods Indra and Brahma

date: Kushan period, 1st/2nd century

medium: Schist

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund


title: Jaina Tirthankara Parshvanatha Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra) under a Snake Hood

date: 6th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Uttar Pradesh

subjects:
Sandstone
Uttar pradesh
Reptiles & amphibians


title: Savitri Triumphs over Yama, the God of Death

date: 12th/13th century

subjects:
Stone (unidentified)
Madhya pradesh


title: Dancing God Shiva (Natesha)

date: 10th/11th century

subjects:
Stone (unidentified)
Rajasthan


title: Pillar Fragment with Gods Shiva and Ganesha and Goddesses Parvati and Durga

date: 8th/9th century

subjects:
Stone
Madhya pradesh


title: Narasimha, Man-Lion Incarnation of God Vishnu Destroying the Demon Hiranyakashipu

creator: Bangladesh or eastern India

date: Pala period, 11th century

medium: Basalt

country: Bangladesh

subjects: Stone Bangladesh


title: Sofa Table

creator: England

medium: Oak, calamander, and gilt brass

subjects: Table England

credit_line: Bequest of Cornelia E. Conger


title: Bottle

creator: England, Liverpool or London

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Liverpool

subjects: Earthenware Liverpool

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. C. Phillip Miller


title: Portable Compass Sundial

creator: Germany

date: 17th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Tool Germany

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Charles H. Morse, Sr. in memory of his wife, Mrs. Charlotte Morse


title: Portable Compass Sundial

medium: Brass


title: Portable Compass Sundial

creator: J. Kleininger

medium: Wood, hand-colored etching on paper, and glass with string gnomon

credit_line: As a Gift from Mr. Charles H. Morse, Sr. in memory of his wife, Mrs. Charlotte Morse


title: Portable Sundial

creator: Michael Butterfield

country: France

subjects: Tool France

credit_line: As a Gift from Mr. Charles H. Morso, Sr. in memory of his wife, Mrs. Charlotte Morse


title: Egg-Type Watch

creator: Nicklaus Rugend

medium: Silver, brass, leather, and metal

country: Augsburg

subjects: Silver Augsburg


title: Portable Diptych with Compass, Sundial, and Perpetual Calendar

creator: Charles Bloud

medium: Ivory, brass, glass, etching on ivory laid paper used for compass rose

subjects: Tool France Roses


title: Watch

creator: James Simpson

medium: Silver

country: Lincoln

subjects: Silver Lincoln


title: Watch

creator: Edward Orton

medium: Silver, silver gilt, and gold

country: London

subjects: Silver London


title: Watch and Key

creator: Paris, France

date: Mid to late 18th century

medium: Gold and enamels

subjects: Gold France


title: Coach Watch

creator: Johann Eusebius Loderer


title: Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Bust of King Volagases IV

creator: Parthian

country: Iran

subjects: Coin Iran

credit_line: Gift of William F. Dunham


title: Young Woman at a Table Holding a Cup

creator: François André Vincent

medium: Black and white chalks, with touches of red chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, with margins in blue laid paper and pen and iron gall ink

subjects: Chalk France

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


title: Cover

creator: Italy

medium: textile

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Herbert L. Stern


title: Comb

creator: United States

medium: Tortoise shell; scroll ornament

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Shells & molluscs


title: Fan

creator: France

medium: Silk and gauze mount decorated with spangles; pearl sticks and guards with cut steel decoration; gilt loop and rivet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France


title: Handkerchief

creator: Ireland, Carrickmacross

medium: Cotton and linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen in padded overcast stitches; edged with cotton, plain weave; cut work embroidered with cotton in herringbone; trammed overcast and open buttonhole filling stitches; buttonhole bars decorated with buttonhole picots and darned wheels

country: Carrickmacross

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Carrickmacross


title: Miser Bag

creator: France or England

medium: Steel cut beads; silk crochet; steel findings; trimmed with spiraled wire and beads strung and joined in pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
France


title: Panel

medium: Brocaded fancy compound satin


title: Panel

medium: Silk and gilt-strip-wrapped around a silk fiber core, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by main warps in floats


title: Runner

creator: England

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and silk, bobbin lace braid and extended weft cut fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England


title: Portrait of Amelia, Wife of John Opie, R.A.

creator: Henry Pierce Bone (English, 1779–1855)

medium: Enamel

subjects:
Miniature painting
England
Portraits

credit_line: Colonel Alexander F. and Jeannie C. Stevenson Memorial Collection


title: Pichvai with Ladies under the Tree Motif (Vrikshachari)

creator: India

medium: Cotton, painted, mordant-dyed, wax resisted, with gold and mica gilding

country: Southern India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Southern india
Trees

credit_line: Asian Art Council Acquisition Fund


title: Square from a 'Crazy Quilt'

medium:
Silk, tabby, satin, velvet & twill weaves. some have warp-face, extra pattern wefts, printing, or moiré pattern, cisele velvet

Embroidered in silk floss & 2 ply twist. (Backed with tabby cotton after piecing.) Embroidery thru 3 layers

Stitches: Herrinbone, feather, buttonhole, cross, satin, fishbone knot, & variations with line stitch

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state

credit_line: Gift of Helen Donathen


title: Square from a 'Crazy Quilt'

medium: Silk, satin, twill, and plain weaves; some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts, some self-patterned by main warps and ground wefts; some embroidered with silk and silk chenille yarns in bullion, satin, split and stem stitches; couching; some warp dyed; silk and silk and cotton, plain and satin weaves with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid and cut voided velvets; and wool, twill weave; embroidered in herringbone, satin and stem stitches; pieced; padded; backed with cotton, plain weave and embroidered with silk in cross, double feather, feather, fly, herringbone, knot, satin and split stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state


title: Christening Cover

creator: Possibly for Mary Philipse Morris (1730–1825)

date: c. 1758 or earlier

medium: Silk, warp-float faced satin weave; quilted; edged with warp-faced plain weave woven tape and fringe with wrapped tassels; backed with silk, plain weave

country: New York

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
New york

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Louise Lutz in honor of Mildred Davison


title: Unfinished Cigar or Tobacco Rectangles Quilt

medium: Forty-two rectangles of cotton, plain weave; roller printed, fulled; joined by machine stitching

credit_line: Gift of Christa C. Mayer Thurman


title: Crib Quilt

creator: Made by or for Auley Odell

medium: Cotton, plain weave; quilted with raised areas (trapunto)

country: Connecticut

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Connecticut

credit_line: Louise Lutz Endowment


title: Fragment of a Quilt

medium: Silk and cotton, plain, twill, and satin weaves; some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts, some self-patterned, some with supplementary pile warps (velvet), and some warp-resist dyed (chiné); pieced; backed with cotton and silk, plain weaves, some with self-patterning and satin weaves; stitched with cotton threads

country: United States

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Gardner Anderson in memory of Mrs. William France Anderson


title: Table Cover or Quilt Top

credit_line: Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan


title: The Annunciation, plate one from The Birth and Early Life of Christ

creator: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617)

medium: Engraving on paper

country: Netherlands

subjects: Engraving Netherland

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


title: The Adoration of the Shepherds, plate three from The Birth and Early Life of Christ


title: The Visitation, plate two from The Birth and Early Life of Christ

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper


title: The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist, plate six from The Birth and Early Life of Christ


title: The Adoration of the Magi, plate five from The Birth and Early Life of Christ


title: The Farnesian Hercules, plate one from Three Famous Antique Sculptures

credit_line: Mary S. Adams Endowment


title: The Apollo Belvedere, plate 3 from Three Famous Antique Sculptures

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hixon Glore Fund in memory of Robert Hixon Glore, Jr.


title: Bust of an Old Man Wearing a Fur Cap

creator: Jan Lievens

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Holland

subjects: Etching Holland


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; printed

country: England

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Potomac Round Point, Washington D.C., Sketches

creator: D. H. Burnham & Co.

medium: Graphite and colored pencil on tracing paper

country: Washington

subjects:
Design sketch
Washington

credit_line: Gift of Edward and Marvin Probst, of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1948.


title: South Shore Park, Chicago, Illinois, Design Sketch

creator: Daniel Hudson Burnham

medium: Watercolor on paper

country: South Shore Park

subjects:
Design sketch
South shore park

credit_line: Gift of Burnham Burnham and Daniel H. Burnham, Jr.


title: Point West of Algiers, North Africa, Travel Sketch

medium: Watercolor over graphite

country: Algeria

subjects:
Travel sketch
Algeria


title: Staircase panel from the Benjamin Lindauer House, Chicago, Illinois

creator: Adler & Sullivan

medium: Carved cherry wood

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural fragment
United state

credit_line: Gift of John Vinci


title: Door panel from the Henry Stern House, Chicago, Illinois

medium: Painted wood

subjects:
Architecture
United state


title: God Shiva and Goddess Uma Seated with their Son, Skanda (Somaskanda)

date: Vijayanagar period, about 1400

medium: Bronze

country: Tamil Nadu

subjects:
Bronze
Tamil nadu

credit_line: Robert Allerton Purchase Fund


title: God Krishna Dancing on the Head of the Snake Demon Kaliya (Kaliyadamana)

date: Vijayanagar period, 14th century

subjects:
Bronze
Tamil nadu
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund


title: Girl Eating Cherries

creator: After Jean Siméon Chardin

medium: Black chalk and graphite with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper

country: France

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
France

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: The Young Draughtsman

creator: Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty (French, 1710-1781)

medium: Mezzotint printed in color from four plates on cream laid paper

subjects: Mezzotint France

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


title: The Tapestry Worker

medium: Color mezzotint from four plates, on cream laid paper


title: Barefoot Woman Seated on Ground

creator: Jean Siméon Chardin

medium: Graphite with brush and gray wash and touches of black gouache, heightened with white gouache, on ivory wove paper prepared with a greenish-gray  wash, laid down on ivory laid card

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
France


title: The Monkey Antiquarian

creator: Pierre-Louis de Surugue (French, 1716–1772)

medium: Etching with engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects: Etching France

credit_line: Charles Greene Fund


title: The Monkey Painter

creator: Pierre-Louis de Surugue (French, 1716-1772)


title: Girl Playing with Drum

medium: Black chalk with brush and gray wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper


title: The Last Supper

creator: Pieter De Grebber

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

credit_line: Gift of Anne Searle Bent


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Amedeo Modigliani

medium: Oil on cardboard

subjects: Painting Italy Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham


title: Wisteria and Goldfish 紫藤金魚圖

creator: Xugu 虚谷 (Chinese, 1824-1896)

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

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper

country: China

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China

credit_line: Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair Collection


title: Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII

creator: Utagawa School

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan Portraits

credit_line: Judson D. Metzger Collection


title: The Public Scribe

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

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


title: La mort aux rats (The Rat Catcher)

creator: Pierre François Basan (French, 1723-1797)

medium: Etching and Engraving on laid ivory paper

subjects: Engraving France

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Thomas Cecil Ford and Mrs. Phyllis Ford Choyke in memory of Vera Buchanan Ford


title: The Great Barrel-Makers

medium: Etching, roulette and drypoint on ivory laid paper

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: Vuë du fameux Chataignier de l'Etna...(View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli)

creator: François Alix (French, 1753-1794)

medium: Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects: Etching France Trees

credit_line: Tillie C. Cohn Fund Income #2


title: The Village Festival

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching and drypoint in black on ivory laid paper

subjects: Etching France Portraits


title: Watermill

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu (French, 1736-1810)

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


title: La fontaine (The Fountain)

creator: Charles-Nicholas Cochin (French, 1715-1790)

medium: Etching with Engraving on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Elizabeth Gott Templeton Endowment


title: Portrait of Molière

creator: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (French, 1731-1797)

medium: Engraving with etched frame on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf


title: La Lorraine reunie a la France (Lorraine Reunited with France)

creator: Charles-Nicholas Cochin (French, 1688-1754)

medium: Etching with engraving on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection


title: Portrait of Sébastien Bourdon

creator: Laurent Cars (French, 1699-1771)

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper


title: Portrait of Cardinal Fleury

creator: François Chereau, the elder (French, 1680-1729)

subjects: Engraving France Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry C. Wood in memory of Sara Rozet Calvin


title: Allegory of Surgery

creator: Charles-Nicholas Cochin, the younger

medium: Etching and engraving on buff laid paper

subjects: Mythology Engraving France

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


title: Le Pecheur (The Fisherman)

creator: Pierre Quentin Chedel (French, 1705-1762)

medium: Engraving with etching on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Wildenstein and Company


title: Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse Du Barry, and her servant Zamor

creator: Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier D'Agoty

medium: Mezzotint in black on cream laid paper

credit_line: Stanley Field Fund; Joseph Brooks Fair Memorial Collection


title: Monseigneur le Dauphin de France (Portrait of Louis, the Dauphin of France)

creator: Jean Daullé (French, 1703-1763)


title: L'Ecole de danse (Dancing School)

creator: François Dequevauviller (French, 1745-1807)

credit_line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club


title: Les offres seduisantes (The Tempting Offers)

creator: Jean Louis Delignon (French, 1755-1804)

medium: Engraving and etching on ivory laid paper


title: Landscape with Windmill, Young Man and Girl, and Two Oxen

creator: Dominique-Vivant Denon (French, 1747-1825)

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

subjects: Etching France Landscapes

credit_line: Jean M. Massengale Memorial and Howard Simpson Funds


title: Annette et Lubin (Annette and Lubin)

creator: Philibert Louis Debucourt

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


title: Le Main (The Hand)

medium: Color aquatint with engraving in black ink on cream laid paper

subjects: Aquatint France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher


title: L'Escalade ou Les Adieux du Matin (The Climb or The Farwell in the Morning)


title: La Rose (The Rose)

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

subjects: Engraving France Roses


title: La Rixe (The Brawl)

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

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


title: The Chimera

creator: Louis Jean Desprez

medium: Etching in black on cream laid paper

subjects: Print France

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


title: Le Tambourin (The Tambourin)

medium: Color aquatint (ash manner), with etching and engraving, on ivory wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Charles Netcher


title: Sainte Genevieve (Saint Genevieve)

medium: Aquatint and roulette with etching on ivory laid paper


title: Vue de Schadau sur le Lac de Thun (View of Scadau, from the Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse)

creator: Charles-Melchior Descourtis

medium: Aquatint on cream laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Edward C. Porter


title: La Noce au Chateau (The Night at the Chateau)

medium: Colored aquatint on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Sheldon Fund


title: Le carquois épuisé (The Empty Quiver)

creator: Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739-1792)

medium: Etching and engraving in black ink on white laid paper


title: L'Heureux Moment (The Happy Moment)

medium: Etching and engraving on ivory laid  paper


title: Le Chiffre d'amour (The Cipher of Love)

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

credit_line: The Art Institute of Chicago


title: L'Epouse indiscrete (The Indiscreet Wife)


title: La complaisance maternelle (Maternal Indulgence)


title: Les Baignets (The Fritters)

medium: Engraving in black ink on ivory laid paper


title: The Portal of Saint Ursinus at Bourges, rue du Vieux Poirier

creator: Bisson Frères (Louis-Auguste Bisson, French, 1814–1876 and

medium: Albumen print

subjects:
Albumen silver print
France

credit_line: The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund


title: C'est papa! (It's papa!)

medium: Etching with engraving in black on ivory laid paper


title: Full Moon and Autumn Flowers by the Stream

creator: Ogata Gekko

medium: Color woodblock print, uchiwa-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Allan Mitchell


title: Alpha's Death

creator: Edvard Munch

medium: Lithograph on paper

country: Norway

subjects: Lithograph Norway

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: June, from Twelve Months of Flowers

creator: Henry Fletcher (English, 1710-1750)

medium: Engraving in black ink with opaque and translucent watercolor on cream laid paper

subjects: Etching England Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: La Gaiete Conjuale (Conjugal Gaiety)

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

subjects: Etching France


title: :Le Petit Predicateur (The Little Preacher)

medium: Etching on cream laid paper


title: Les Soins Tardifs (The Belated Care)

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper


title: Le Petit Jour (Morning)

medium: Engraving and etching on ivory laid paper


title: Portrait of Madame du Barry

creator: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (French, 1731-1797)

medium: Engraving on paper


title: La Retour du Courrier (The return of the courrier)

medium: Etching and engraving on ivory laid paper


title: Le Départ du Courrier (The Departing of the Courrier)


title: Nymph Sitting on the Hands of Two Satyrs from Bacchanales, or Satyrs' Games

creator: Jean-Honoré Fragonard


title: La Pervenche de Java (The Perwinkle of Java, from the Collection of Usual, Curious, and Foreign Plants)

creator: Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty

medium: Etching,stipple, and roulette with handcoloring with typeset attachment on ivory laid paper

subjects: Botany Etching France


title: Nymph Riding on a Satyr's Back, from Bacchanales, or Satyrs' Games


title: Iris Florentina, from Collection des plantes usuelles, curieuses, et étrangères

medium: Etching with stipple and hand coloring on cream laid paper


title: La Balsamine (Impatiens, from the Collection des plantes usuelles, curieuses, et etrangeres)

medium: Etching, handcolored on cream laid paper (discolored to buff)


title: L'Evocation des Morts (The Summoning of the Dead)

creator: Joseph François Foulquier (French, 1745-1789)

medium: Etching and aquatint on paper

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro


title: La Cage Symbolique (The Symbolic Cage)

creator: Marin Fessard (French, active 1766-1787)


title: Ewer

creator: Dutch or Flemish

medium: Colorless glass with blue glass trails and prunts

subjects:
Ewer (vessel)
Netherland
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bessie Bennett Fund From Charles Mannheim collection


title: Model of Westminster Hall

creator: London, England

medium: Paper, wood, and glass

subjects:
Papier découpé
England

credit_line: Gift of Kate L. Brewster


title: Spittoon

creator: Wedgwood Manufactory

medium: Stoneware (basaltware)

country: Burslem

subjects: Tableware Burslem

credit_line: Bequest of Kate L. Brewster


title: The Forest of Rochecardon

creator: Jean-Michel Grobon

medium: Etching with roulette in black on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
France

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


title: La Nuit (Night, from Quatre parties du jour)

creator: Emmanuel Jean Nepomucene de Ghendt (French, 1738-1815)

credit_line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club


title: Le Soir (Evening, from Quatre parties du jour)


title: Le Matin (Morning, from Quatre parties du jour)


title: Le Mariage (The Mariage from, the Vie des Satyres)

creator: Claude Gillot (French, 1673-1722)

medium: Etching with engraving on cream laid paper

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


title: Le Midi (Midday, from Quatre parties du jour)


title: Feste de Faune (The feast of the faun from, Bacchannales or the Quatres Festes)

creator: Claude Gillot

credit_line: Potter Palmer Collection Fund


title: Feste de Bacchus (Festival of Bacchus from, Bacchannales or the Quatre Festes)

medium: Etching on paper


title: Feste du dieu Pan (Festival of the god Pan from, Bacchanales or the Quatre Festes)

medium: Etching on cream laid


title: Feste de Diane (Festival of Diana, from Bacchanales or the Quatre Festes)


title: Les Dernieres Paroles de J.J. Roseau (The Last Words of J.J. Rosseau)

creator: Heinrich Guttenberg (German, 1749-1818)

medium: Engraving on laid cream paper

country: Germany

subjects: Engraving Germany

credit_line: Charles Greene Fund


title: The Last Words of Jean Jacques Rousseau

medium: Etching on laid paper

subjects: Etching Germany


title: Plaster Cast of Body, Pompeii

creator: Giorgio Sommer

medium: Albumen print

country: Italy

subjects: Photograph Italy

credit_line: Gift of W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg


title: Marie Antoinette

creator: Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752-1814)

medium: Etching and engraving printed on two sheets as follows: oval portrait in wash manner on full sheet in yellow, blue, red, and black from four plates; decorative frame cut out in center, in blue and orange from two plates

subjects:
Ornament & design
Etching
France
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher to The Charles Netcher II Memorial Collection


title: Head of a Young Woman Asleep

creator: Jean-Baptiste Lucien (French, c. 1748-1806)

medium: Crayon-manner engraving in red-brown on ivory wove China paper with a laid pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Engraving
France

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


title: Les Laveuses (The Washerwomen)

creator: Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

medium: Etching and aquatint on cream laid paper


title: Les Pecheurs (The Fishermen)


title: La Danse Russe (The Russian Dance)

medium: Aquatint with etching on ivory laid paper

subjects: Aquatint France

credit_line: Gift of Col. Frank W. Chesrow


title: Jesus dans le Temple (Jesus in the Temple)

medium: Aquatint and etching on off-white laid paper

subjects: Architecture Aquatint France


title: Le Roman Dangereux (The Dangerous Novel)

creator: Isidor-Stanislas Helman (French, 1743-1806 or 1809)


title: Wine Cooler from the Duke of Clarence Service

creator: Worcester Porcelain Factory (Flight Period, 1783–1792)

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

country: Worcester

subjects: Ceramic Worcester

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


title: Vase

creator: Bristol Porcelain Factories

medium: Hard-paste porcelain and polychrome enamels

country: Bristol

subjects: Vase Bristol

credit_line: Charles H. and Elizabeth J. Chapin Memorial Fund


title: Le Jardinier Galant (The Amorous Gardener)

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper


title: Sacrifice au dieu Pan (Sacrifice to the god Pan)

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenee II

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Gift of James A. Bergquist, Boston, in honor of Dorothy Braude Edinburg


title: La Rencontre Dangereuse (The Dangerous Encounter)

creator: Jean Jacques Andre Le Veau (French, 1729-1785)


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt

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

medium: Wool, double weave

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. Armour, Jr. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation, Frances Glessner Lee Fund, Mrs. Julian Armstrong Jr.; Textile Purchase Fund


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt, Akhmîn

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

medium: Silk, weft-float faced complementary weft twill weave with inner warps

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Ribbon

creator: Egypt, Antinöe

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

medium: Silk, weft-float faced three-color complementary weft twill weave with inner warps

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


title: Unfinished Mantle

creator: Paracas

medium: Wool (camelid), plain weave; embroidered in overcast and stem stitches; edged with cross-knit loop stitches.

country: Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru

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


title: Band

creator: Peru

medium: textile


title: Fragment (Border)

creator: Paracas Necropolis

credit_line: Gift of Alan R. Sawyer


title: Mummy Mask

medium: Cotton, plain weave; painted

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus


title: Le Lever (The Levee from, Troisieme suite d'estampes pour servir s l'histoire des modes et du costume...)

creator: Louis Michel Halbou (French, 1730-c. 1809)

medium: Etching and engraving on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Etching
France

credit_line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club


title: Dolls

creator: Chancay

date: 1950/84, with textile fragments from CE 1000/1476

medium: Contemporary assemblage of materials from a variety of past cultures. Cotton and wool, variety of weaves; embroidered with wool in running stitch; cotton wrapped twigs

credit_line: Gift of Malee Chompoo


title: Fragment (Possibly From a Tunic)


title: Dolls

medium: Contemporary assemblage of materials from a variety of past cultures. Cotton, variety of eaves, embroidered with cotton and wool in tunning and satin stitches; couching; cotton wrapped twigs


title: Dolls

medium: Contemporary assemblage of materials from a variety of past cultures. Cotton and wool, variety of weaves' embroidered with wool in satin and back stitches; cotton wrapped twigs


title: Dolls

medium: Contemporary assemblage of materials from a variety of past cultures. Cotton and wool, variety of weaves; embroidered with wool in satin and back stitches; cotton wrapped twigs


title: Fragment (Band)

creator: Provincial Wari

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), tapestry weave with supplementary weft slit closure

credit_line: Gift of an Anonymous Donor


title: Band

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), tapestry weave with supplementary weft slit closure; edged with wool (camelid) in cross-knit loop stitches


title: Fragment (Band)

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single interlocking tapestry weave


title: Headband

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), outer band of single interlocking tapestry weave; inner band of two-color complementary weft weave; joined in wool (camelid), cross-knit loop stitches


title: Fragment


title: Fragment

creator: Possibly provincial Wari

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit, dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave with extended weft loop fringe


title: Henry IV, Roi de France et de Navarre (Henry IV, King of France and Navarre)

creator: Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752-1814)

medium: Color aquatint on cream laid paper


title: Hat

creator: Wari

medium: Wool (camelid), square knotted ground with interworked yarns forming cut pile; tassels


title: Fragment (Headband)

medium: Interlocking and slit tapestry


title: Hat

medium: Wool (camelid), square knotted ground with interworked yarns forming cut pile


title: Fragment (Tunic)

creator: Chimú


title: Band

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave; wool (camelid), tassels: wrapped and embroidered in chain stitches


title: Fragment

creator: Probably Chimú

medium: Cotton, plain weave with paired warps; embroidered with wool (camelid) and cotton in running and stem stitches

credit_line: Gift of Frank B. Hubachek


title: Fragment

creator: Possibly Chimú

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), bands of plain weave and plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton, stripes of plain weave and plain weave derived float weave

credit_line: Bequest of Hans G. Cahen


title: Tunic Fragment

medium: Cotton, predominant warp plain weave with paired wefts; applied feathers

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wrigley Offield


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), bands of plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and weave with paired warps


title: Fragment (Border)

creator: Probably Ica

medium: textile


title: Neck or Armhole Panel

creator: Ica


title: Fragment (Shawl)

medium: cotton and camilid wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; cotton and camilid wool, single interlocking tapestry weave (paired warps); and cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; edged with camilid wool in cross knit loop stitches; left selvage present: wefts turn on paired weft selvage cord; heading present: three heading cords


title: Fragment

medium: Brocaded interlocking tapestry. (old card)

credit_line: Gift of M. S. Krausz


title: Fragment (Band)

credit_line: Gift of Bruce J. Graham


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), single interlocking tapestry weave


title: Fragment (From a mantle)

creator: Peru, Possibly central or south coast


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), two-color complementary weft diamond twill weave


title: Fragment (From Poncho)

creator: Possibly Santa Clara, Virú Valley, north coast, Peru

medium: Simple cloth, embroidery in cotton.


title: Bag

creator: Peru, south coast, Possibly Ica Valley


title: Tunic

creator: Possibly Chancay


title: Fragment

creator: Peru

medium: plain simple cloth (old card)


title: Fragment

medium: Plain weave of paired warps with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts and supplementary patterning warps. Attched plain weave border and weft fringe.


title: Fragment

creator: Chuquibamba

medium: Wool (camelid), interlocking tapestry weave with inserts of complementary weft weave


title: Fragment

medium: Brocaded interlocking tapestry weave (old card)


title: Fragment

medium: Brocaded interlocking tapestry (old card)


title: Fragment

medium: Simple cloth. Brocade interlocking tapestry (old card)


title: Fragment

medium: Plain simple cloth (Old card)


title: Fragment

medium: Brocaded tapestry (old card)


title: Fragment

medium: Brocaded interlocking tapestry weave


title: Fragment

medium: Plain compound cloth (old card)


title: Band

creator: Provincial Inca


title: Headband or Belt Fragments


title: Headband or Belt Fragment

medium: compound weave


title: Fragment (Headband or Belt)

creator: Possibly provincial Inca

medium: Wool (camelid), two-color complementary warp weave


title: Headband or Belt Fragment

medium: textile


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), plain weave with brocading wefts


title: Fragment (Tunic)

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single interlocking tapestry weave with eccentric wefts


title: Fragment


title: Bag

medium: Wool (camelid), plain weave self-patterned by main warp floats; joined in double running stitches; edged with plain weave with plied warp fringe


title: Bag

medium: Broken twill


title: Bag

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), tapestry weave; joined in cross-knit loop stitches; edged in buttonhole stitches


title: Bag

medium: Wool (camelid), stripes of plain weave and two-color complementary warp plain weave; joined in overcast stitches


title: Coca Bag


title: Bag

medium: costume accessory - bag

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessory - bag
Peru


title: Headband or Belt Fragment

medium: Warp pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru


title: Coca Bag

creator: Inca-Colonial

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave with bands of two-color complementary weft plain weave with three-span floats; joined with wool (camelid) in cross-knit loop and overcast stitches


title: Panel (Tapestry Weave)

medium: Wool (probably sheep and camelid); tapestry weave


title: Panel (Tapestry weave)

medium: Wool; slit and interlocking tapestry weave


title: Fragment

creator: Chancay

medium: Cotton, plain weave; painted

credit_line: African and Amerindian Art Purchase Fund


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, north coast, Culebra Vallery, La Capilla


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, north coast, Culebra Valley, La Capilla


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, north coast, Culebra Valley, La Capilla,


title: Fragment

creator: Late Chimu

credit_line: Anonymous gift through the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Tunic Fragments (?)

creator: Peru, Probably north or central coast

credit_line: Department of Textiles Collection


title: Fragment

creator: Possibly central coast, Peru


title: Patch

creator: Lambayeque

medium: Slit tapestry, simple cloth


title: Patch

medium: Tapestry and loop weaving. Simple Cloth, slit tapestry.


title: Fragment

creator: Probably north or central coast, Peru

medium: Tapestry weave


title: Fragment

medium: Slit tapestry and plain compound cloth


title: Patch

medium: Slit tapestry weave


title: Fragment

creator: Probably central coast, Peru


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton, plain weave with brocading wefts


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, south coast, Ica Valley

medium: Cotton; tie-dyed


title: Fragment (Border)

medium: textile


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, south coast, Palpa Valley, Jumana


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, south coast, Palpa Valley, Chiquerillo


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, Possibly central coast


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, south coast, Ica Valley, Callango

medium: Cotton; discontinuous warp and weft plain weave with dovetailed warps and interlocking wefts.


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton, plain weave, double cloth


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, south coast, Palpa Valley


title: Band

creator: Probably Chancay


title: Fragment

medium: Linen; plain brocaded simple cloth

credit_line: Gift of Frank G. Logan


title: Panel

creator: Peru, Possibly south coast


title: Fragment

creator: Chancay

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), plain weave with patterning and brocading wefts

credit_line: Gift of Reverend Richard J. Douaire


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton, predominant warp, plain weave; painted.

credit_line: Gift of Louise Mora


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), plain weave with brocading wefts


title: Fragment

medium: Compound weave; All-over design in blue, green, red and yellow

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Fragment

medium: Slit tapestry (old card)


title: Fragment (Band)

creator: Probably central or south coast, Peru


title: Fragments(Band)

medium: Slit tapestry


title: Fragment (Band)

creator: Possibly Chancay


title: Fragment (Band)

medium: Slit tapestry with weft loop fringe


title: Fragment


title: Fragments (Bands)


title: Fragment (Band)

creator: Possibly north or central coast, Peru


title: Fragment (Band)


title: Band

medium: Compound weave; warp: s-spun yellow, red, purple and fine natural thread tightly S-spun in wool or alpaca. Weft: s-spun natural cotton.


title: Fragment (Band)

medium: Slit tapestry with loops of weft forming fringe along edges


title: Headband or Belt Fragment


title: Band Fragment

creator: Possibly north-central coast, Peru

medium: Interlocking tapestry


title: Band


title: Band


title: Loincloth Fragment

medium: slit tapestry


title: Fragments


title: Panel


title: Fragments

creator: Possibly central or south coast, Peru


title: Fragment

medium: Plain brown cloth, compound border. Border put in with needle and darning stitch on plain brown cloth. Woven fringe


title: Fragment

creator: Possibly Inca

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), bands of plain weave and two- and three-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps and patterning wefts


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton, plain weave; painted


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton, plain weave and cotton and wool (camelid), slit and tapestry weave with eccentric and wrapping outline wefts with slit tapestry tab fringe


title: Fragment


title: Panel


title: Carrying Cloth

medium: Plain cloth with tapestry


title: Fragment


title: Fragments

medium: Plain cloth with interlocking tapestry


title: Fragment (Band)

creator: Lambayeque

medium: textile


title: Fragment

creator: Probably central coast, Peru

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), plain weave with inserts of slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave with interlaced and wrapping outlining wefts


title: Border fragment

creator: Possibly north coast, Peru

medium: Fancy compound cloth. Warp: s-spun tightly twisted; s-spun, two, ply, all cotton. Weft: cotton in pairs; one s-spun and one z-spun.


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), plain weave with patterning and brocading wefts


title: Fragment from a Mantle

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), two- and three-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps and self-patterned by weft floats; band of plain weave with slit tapestry tab fringe


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton and wool; tabby and compound weave


title: Fragment

creator: Probably north or central coast, Peru

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single interlocking tapestry weave with eccentric and interlaced outlining wefts


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton, slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton, plain weave and cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave with eccentric and wrapping outlining wefts; slit tapestry tab fringe


title: Fragment

creator: Probably north coast, Peru

medium: Slit tapestry border attached to brown plain cloth


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, Probably central coast


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric and wrapping outlining wefts


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, Possibly north or central coast


title: Fragments

medium: Cotton and camelid wool; plain weave edged in slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, Probably south coast


title: Band

creator: Probably Lambayeque

medium: slit tapestry weave


title: Fragment (Border)


title: Fragment

medium: Fine slit tapestry


title: Fragment (Border)

medium: Wool and cotton; compound weave


title: Tassel

creator: Peru, Probably central or south coast

medium: Cotton, plain weave double cloth with warp fringe


title: Panel

creator: Peru, Possibly south coast


title: Carrying Cloth

medium: Cotton and camelid; warp-faced plain weave with slit tapestry weft wrapping


title: Tunic shoulder fragment

creator: Chancay

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single dovetail tapestry weave; edged with weft-faced plain weave with extended weft cut fringe

subjects: Weaving Peru


title: Fragment

creator: Peru, Probably north-central coast

medium: textile


title: Panel

creator: Peru, Possibly central coast


title: Panel

medium: Cotton and camelid wool, slit tapestry weave


title: Patch


title: Sampler

creator: Possibly Chancay


title: Tassel


title: Fragment

creator: Possibly Lambayeque

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave with eccentric and wrapping outlining wefts


title: Weaving Comb

creator: Peru, central coast, Rimac Valley, Possibly Santa Clara


title: Weaving Comb

creator: Peru, possibly central or south coast


title: Weaving Comb

creator: Peru, Possibly central or south coast


title: Weaving Comb


title: Comb


title: Fragment

creator: Possibly south-central coast, Peru

medium: Slit tapestry weave


title: Fragments

creator: Peru, Possibly Chicama Valley, north coast


title: Fragment

creator: Probably central coast, Peru

medium: Cotton, plain weave with band of cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single interlocking tapestry weave with supplementary weft slit closure


title: Fragment

creator: Possibly central coast, Peru

medium: Slit tapestry (old card)


title: Fragment (Band)

medium: Slit tapestry


title: Fragment (Band)

creator: Probably central or south coast, Peru

medium: Slit tapestry with weft loop fringe


title: Fragment (Dress Fabric)

creator: Italy, Venice

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut pile-on-pile solid velvet

country: Venice

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Venice

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Fragment

creator: Peru

medium: Plain cloth. (old card)


title: Fragment

medium: Plain simple cloth (old card)


title: Fragment


title: Fragment

medium: Plain Cloth

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Bag


title: Band


title: Panel

medium: Cotton, plain weave; painted


title: Ornamental Tab


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric and wrapped outlining wefts


title: Panel

creator: Lambayeque

medium: Two panels joined: cotton and wool (camelid), slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave with weft loop pile and supplementary patterning wefts


title: Wooden Spindle

medium: Wood

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Spindle (textile working equipment)
Peru


title: Bone Pick

creator: Peru, Probably central coast

medium: Bone

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru
Skeletons & bones


title: Wooden Spindles with Ceramic Whorls

medium: Wood and ceramic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile working equipment
Peru


title: Wooden Spindle with Ceramic Whorl


title: Weaving comb

medium: Wood, cotton, split reed and resin


title: Shed Sticks (?)

medium: Wood and fiber


title: Fragment

creator: Chancay


title: Amulet

medium: Black resinous material inlaid with coral bead and bone, remains of hide and fabric wrapping; cord attached

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru
Corals & anemones
Skeletons & bones


title: Fragment

creator: Probably Chancay

medium: Cotton and wool (camelid), plain weave double cloth with bands of single-faced complementary weft weave and plain weave


title: Fragment

creator: Pativilca Valley, north-central coast, Peru

medium: Cotton, plain weave double cloth; edged with cotton, plain weave


title: Bone Pick

medium: Bone or wood?


title: Fragments

creator: Persia, found near Bibi Shahr Banu, near Rayy

medium: Silk, brocaded

country: Iran

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Iran

credit_line: Gift of Logan-Patten-Ryerson Collection


title: Fragment

creator: Eastern Islamic World

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped cotton, warp-float faced 'S' 3:1 twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in twill interlacings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Fragment from an Orphrey Band Showing St. Barbara and St. James

creator: England

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

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Walter Byron Smith


title: Fragment

creator: Italy

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in a weft-float faced 3:1 twill weave

country: Lucca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Lucca

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mesdames Horace O. Wetmore, James M. Hopkins, Edwin A. Seipp, Howell B. Erminger, Jr., Walter B. Smith, Gustavus F. Swift, Col. R. R. McCormick, and The Chicago Club


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, satin damask weave


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts bound by secondary binding warps in plain interlacings


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 2:1 'S' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Farwell, III


title: Panel

creator: Italy, possibly Venice

medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warps in weft-float faced 1:4 'Z' twill interlacings and supplementary pile warps forming cut, voided velvet

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


title: Chasuble

medium: Silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided pile-on-pile velvet; orphrey: linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in satin, padded satin, and split stitches; couching, padded couching, and laid work; edged with silk, gilt-metal strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk woven tape

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Honoré Palmer


title: Panel

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut, voided velvet


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate wrapped linen, warp-float faced 2:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 's' twill weave interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; left selvage present

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles H. Worcester


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Fragment (From an Orphrey Band)

creator: England, Opus Anglicanum

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-silk-wrapped silk in split and stem stitches; laid work and couching.

subjects:
England
Needlework (visual works)


title: Panel (Two Lengths Joined)

creator: Italy, Florence or Venice

country: Florence

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Florence

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation; Royalties from The Warner Fund


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet


title: Orphrey Depicting the Resurrection of St. Mary

medium: Silk, gold gilt strip wound around linen fiber core, integrated weave of warp-float faced satin weave and twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts

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


title: Fragment (From an Orphrey Band)

creator: Italy, Florence

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary brocading wefts tied by secondary binding warps in twill interlacings


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; stamped


title: Panel from an Altar Frontal

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 broken twill weave with weft-float faced 1:3 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts forming weft loop pile in areas and with supplementary pile warps forming cut, pile-on-pile, voided velvet; band of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and extended ground and supplementary patterning weft wrapped cut and uncut fringe; lined with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Weaving - velvet
Italy

credit_line: Samuel P. Avery Endowment


title: Orphrey Panel (Depicting the Nativity)

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts bound by secondary binding warps in a weft-float faced 2:1 twill interlacing

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Edward M. Cummings


title: Orphrey Fragment (Depicting the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple)

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Architecture
Textile
Florence

credit_line: Chester D. Tripp Fund


title: Orphrey Fragment

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and cotton, velvet; cut pile-on-pile, voided; additional paired patterning wefts in gold foil (cut strips wound around silk core) tied in twill weave; against plain weave foundation


title: Panel

medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, 4:1 satin weave self-patterned with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:4 'z' twill interlacings


title: Orphrey Cross

creator: Germany

medium: Linen, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk in satin, surface satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching and padded couching; edged with silk, plain weave and wool, warp chevron twill weave tapes

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Germany

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


title: Chasuble

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; Orphrey: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; edged with gilt-metal strip and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped linen, plain weaves self-patterned by main warp floats

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Honore Palmer


title: Fragment

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


title: Panel

medium: Silk, plain weave variation with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts forming weft loop pile in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut pile-on-pile voided velvet

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


title: Panel

creator: Italy, possibly Florence or Venice

medium: Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warp in weft-float faced 1:4 's' twill interlacings

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mesdames Paul Magnuson, Howell B. Erminger, Jr., James Hopkins, Walter B. Smith, Chauncey B. Borland, Stanley G. Harris, Joseph T. Ryerson, and Richard T. Crane


title: Fragment (Dress Fabric)

creator: Italy, Venice

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut, pile-on-pile solid velvet

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Portion (From Altar Frontal)

medium: Silk, plain weave variation with silk supplementary wefts and weft-float faced 1:2 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, supplementary facing and supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; edged with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts with extended supplementary patterning weft knotted uncut fringe and over extended ground weft cut fringe

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Tiffany Blake


title: Panel

creator: Spain or Italy

medium: Linen and silk, satin damask weave

country: Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Pair of Cuffs

medium: Linen, plain weave; cut and drawn work in interlocking lace and overcast stitches; darned and overcast bars; buttonhole ring picots; embroidered in bullion, buttonhole, double faggot, double hem, overcast back, overcast and satin stitches; attached edge of plain weave; cut and drawn work in double hem, darning and overcast stitches; buttonhole and overcast bars; bullion picots

credit_line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund


title: Hanging

creator: Lower Saxony, Germany

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and linen in satin, split and stem stitches; appliquéd edging of silk, plain weave


title: Border

medium: Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, bobbin straight lace; edged with points of bobbin straight lace


title: Woman with Female Servant in a Palace Garden

creator: Artist unknown

date: Yuan or early Ming dynasty, late 14th/15th century

medium: Album leaf; ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Album leaf
China

credit_line: Nickerson Collection of Oriental Art


title: The Family Promenade, also called Philippe Mercier, His First Wife, and Family

creator: Philippe Mercier

medium: Etching in black on cream wove paper

country: France

subjects: Etching France

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


title: Tombeau de Jean Jacques Rousseau (Tomb of Jean Jacques Rosseau)

creator: Jean Michel Moreau

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper


title: The Four Accomplishments: Calligraphy

creator: Artist unknown (Chinese, c. 1550-1644)

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), late 16th/early 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll mounted on a panel; ink and colors on silk

country: China

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China

credit_line: Gift of Guy H. Mitchell


title: L'Ete (Summer, plate two from Le Quatre Saisons)

creator: Charles-Joseph Natoire

medium: Etching on buff ivory laid paper


title: L'Hiver (Winter, plate four from Le Quatre Saisons)


title: Le Printemps (Spring, plate one from Le Quatre Saisons)


title: L'Automne (Autumn, plate three from Le Quatre Saisons)


title: The Fountain in the Ruins

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

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


title: Le Directeur des Toilettes (The Director of the Toilettes)

creator: Nicolas-Joseph Voyez

medium: Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club


title: Le Lever (The Levee)

creator: Jean Massard (French, 1740-1822)

medium: Line engraving (etching and engraving) on ivory laid paper


title: L'Irresolution, ou La Confidence (Irresolution, or the Confidence)

creator: Jean Antoine Pierron (French, active 1780-1812)

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper.


title: The Chinese Mascarade

creator: Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: Travelling Companion (Mr. Ch. Deering)

creator: Anders Zorn

country: Sweden

subjects: Etching Sweden

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


title: Reading (Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deering)


title: Abraham Drawing the Children of Israel to His Breast, and Christ with Kneeling Monks, from an Antiphonary

creator: Flemish (Tournai) or Southern England

medium: Manuscript cutting with tempera and gold leaf decorations, and gothic liturgical hand inscriptions in Latin in black ink, ruled in red ink, on parchment

country: Flanders

subjects: Tempera Flander

credit_line: Field Museum of Natural History Exchange


title: Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Pen and ink, and brush and brown and gray wash, red chalk, and white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper; incised

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Two Saints and Two Bishops in a Historiated Initial "E" from a Choir Book

creator: Italian (Siena or Bologna)

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with Latin inscriptions in brownish-black ink, ruled in red ink, verso, on vellum

subjects: Tempera Italy

credit_line: The Brewster Fund


title: The Cliff, Bay of St. Malo

creator: Félix Hilaire Buhot

medium: Etching, drypoint, and aquatint on ivory laid paper, with false margins on heavy white wove paper

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Reading (Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deering)

medium: Etching on off-white wove paper


title: A Way of Flying, from Disparates, published as plate 13 in Los Proverbios (Proverbs)

creator: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)

medium: Etching and aquatint in brown-black on ivory wove paper

subjects: Etching Spain


title: Saint Philip Baptising the Eunuch

creator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones

medium: Graphite and charcoal, with brush and black ink and traces of brush and brown gouache on cream wove paper, laid down on cream board

subjects: Crayon England


title: Ornamental Panels

creator: Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (Swiss, 1525-1572)

medium: Woodcut in black on paper

country: Switzerland

subjects:
Ornament & design
Woodcut
Switzerland

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: A Cliff in the Parish of Rix

creator: Adolphe Appian

medium: Monotype on off-white China paper

subjects: Monotype France

credit_line: Gift of Eberhard Kornfeld


title: Landscape with Gate at Sunset

creator: Hugh Huntington Howard

medium: Watercolor on ivory wove paper, laid down on gray wove paper

country: United States

subjects:
Watercolor
United state
Landscapes


title: Landscape with Castle

creator: Unknown Artist

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

country: Italy

subjects: Wash Italy Landscapes


title: The Visitation, from a Book of Hours

creator: French (possibly Paris or Brittany)

medium: Manuscript cutting with decorations in tempera and gold leaf, and littera textualis inscriptions in brown ink, ruled in light brown wash, on parchment

subjects: Tempera France

credit_line: The Art Institute of Chicago


title: Portrait of Cornelis Tromp

creator: Jan van Munnickhuysen (Dutch, flourished 1654/55-c. 1721)

medium: Etching and engraving in black on paper

country: Netherlands

subjects: Etching Netherland Portraits

credit_line: Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection


title: Saul and the Witch of Endor

creator: William Sharp (English, 1749-1824)

medium: Etching and engraving on paper

subjects:
Engraving
United state

credit_line: Gift of Dr. John Bartlett


title: Saul and the Witch of Endor

medium: Etching on paper


title: Icon membrane vasculosae

creator: Jan L'Admiral

medium: Letterpress pamphlet on three sheets of cream laid paper

country: Holland

subjects: Print Holland

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


title: Bridget in Love

creator: Pieter Tanjé (Dutch, 1706-1761)

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

subjects: Etching Netherland


title: Seascape

creator: Jacob Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (Dutch, 1726-1798)

medium: Pen and wash on paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Netherland


title: Old Man Pointing Left, plate 8 from Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets

creator: Maria Catharina Prestel (German, 1747-1794

medium: Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Netherland


title: Galleons and Sailboats

creator: Willem van de Velde, II

medium: Brush and gray wash on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Holland


title: La Soiree du Palais Royal (The evening at the royal palace)

creator: Jean Gabriel Caquet (French, 1749-1802)

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

subjects: Etching France


title: Portrait of Adrienne Le Couvreur

creator: Pierre-Imbert Drevet (French, 1697-1739)

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

subjects: Engraving France Portraits


title: L'Innocence en danger (Innocence in Danger)


title: Les Sabots (The wooden clogs)

creator: Jacques Couché (French, 1750-1808)


title: Head of Flora

creator: Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793)

medium: Pastel-manner print from eight plates on cream laid paper

subjects: Botany Etching France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher in memory of Charles Netcher II


title: La Coquette Fixee (The Fascinated Coquette)

creator: Jacques Couché (French, born 1750) and Jean Dambrun (French 1741-1808)


title: Jean de La Fontaine

creator: Pierre Michel Alix (French, 1762-1817)

medium: color aquatint from four plates with burnishing on off-white woven paper.

subjects: Aquatint France


title: The Escape of Dessein

creator: Jacques Couché (French, born 1750)

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects: Engraving France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher to The Charles Netcher II Memorial Collection


title: Bust of a Woman

medium: Pastel-manner print on cream laid paper


title: Landscape with Cattle

medium: Print on paper

subjects: Aquatint Netherland Landscapes

credit_line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund


title: Two Shepherds with Cattle

medium: Mixed process print on paper

subjects: Etching Holland


title: African Aloe, plate 47 from Phtanthoza Iconographia

creator: Published by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

medium: Color mezzotint and engraving on cream laid paper

country: Germany

subjects:
Mezzotint
Germany
Cacti & succulents

credit_line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster


title: Portrait of Robert de Cotte

creator: Pierre Drevet (French, 1663-1738)

subjects: Etching France Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Morley Sellers


title: Ein Jungling (Titus)

medium: Hand-colored etching in brown on paper

credit_line: Print and Drawing Club Fund


title: Reverie

creator: Edmond-François Aman-Jean

medium: Color lithograph on ivory Japanese paper, laid down on white wove paper

subjects: Lithograph France

credit_line: Albert H. Wolf Fund


title: Portrait of Adrienne Le Couvreur

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Sanford Otis


title: Spring

creator: Heinrich Johann Vogeler

medium: Etching on tan wove paper

subjects: Etching Germany


title: A Mill Lock in the Middle of Willows, plate 97 from Figures de différents caractères, de Paysages, et d’Etudes dessinées d'après nature (Figures of Different Characters, Landscapes, and Studies Drawn from Nature)

creator: François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

subjects: Etching France Landscapes

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


title: Man Seated on a Chair, plate 69 from Figures de différents caractères...


title: The Laundress

creator: François Boucher

medium: Etching, with traces of engraving, in black on ivory laid paper


title: The Graces on the Tomb of Watteau


title: The Graces on the Tomb of Watteau

medium: Etching on off-white laid paper


title: Marie-Rosalie Vanloo

creator: Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736–1793)

medium: Chalk manner in black and white ink on blue laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
France

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


title: Saint Jude (or Saint Matthias)

creator: Jacques Bellange

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

subjects: Print France


title: Blenheim Palace Sarcophagus: Bacchanale with Lion's Head

creator: Girolamo Sellari, called Girolamo da Carpi

medium: Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Landscape with Man Sleeping beneath Tree (recto); Landscape with a Horseman (verso)

creator: Annibale Carracci

medium: Pen and brown ink (recto) and pen and brown, purple, red, and green inks (verso) on cream laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Landscapes
Trees


title: Pietà

creator: Attributed to Luca Cambiaso

medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, on blue wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper


title: Adoration of the Magi

creator: Benedetto Caliari

medium: Pen and brown ink and black chalk, with brush and brown wash, heightened with gouache, on green laid paper, laid down on tan laid card


title: Standing Monk Holding a Book and Staff

creator: Bartolomeo Cesi

medium: Red chalk heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on buff laid card

subjects: Chalk Italy


title: Angel Playing a Flute

creator: Circle of Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavalier d'Arpino

medium: Black and red chalk, with traces of pen and brown ink, on buff laid paper, incised


title: Triumph of Cybele

creator: Circle of Bernardino Parentino

medium: Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper


title: Angel Holding a Flute

medium: Black and red chalk, on buff laid paper, incised


title: Study of Levi

creator: Alonso Berruguete

medium: Pen and brown ink, on tan laid paper, tipped onto yellow wove paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Spain


title: Old Woman with Cane in Door, with Black Maid Holding Child, and Other Figures

creator: Follower of Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino

medium: Pen and brown ink, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with salmon wash, laid down on ivory laid card


title: Two Standing Draped Figures (Saint John and the Magdalene?)

creator: Attributed to Battista Franco, called Il Semolei (Italian, c. 1510-1561)

medium: Pen and brown ink on brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid card