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Ukiyo-e (Edo Period)

13,094 works

Six figures in Japanese court dress crowd within a fan-shaped frame against an ochre ground and green border.

The Six Immortal Poets, from the series "Worlds of Things (Momoyogusa)"

Kamisaka Sekka, 1909/10

Woodblock print of a child in blue playing a flute beside a large black ox against a pale green background.

Oxherd Flutist, from the series "Worlds of Things (Momoyogusa)"

Kamisaka Sekka, 1909/10

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue kimono walking on a path between green and pink paddy fields under a yellow sky.

A Walk Around the Paddy Fields, from the series "A World of Things (Momoyogusa)"

Kamisaka Sekka, 1909/10

Engraved metal printing block showing horses pulling a loaded sleigh with riders through a snowy landscape with bare trees.

The Portage Sleigh on a Lumber Road, for "Antoine's Moose-Yard," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," October 1890

Frederic Remington, 1890

Printing block showing a mounted rider in a hat beside a fence with hounds gathering near the horse in a wooded scene.

A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891

Frederic Remington, 1891

Loose oil sketch of two robed figures on a tan background, one in white veil and one in dark blue robe.

Study of Two Bedouins

John Singer Sargent, 1905-6

Woodblock-style print of red-crowned cranes standing on a grassy bank and flying across a pale sky, with reeds at left.

Herons Among Grasses

Utagawa Hiroshige, 19th century

Japanese fan-shaped woodblock print of two rabbits on a hill under a full moon with grasses in a blue night sky.

Rabbits in moonlight

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1849/52

Woodblock print of a woman in a striped kimono at a red railing, with a river and hills behind her.

Saishin, from the series "Fashionable Women as the One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Water Margin (Fuzoku onna Suik…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1828/30

Woodblock print of a young figure at a game board beside a bearded armored warrior, with a sword and layered armor.

Ushiwakamaru (Minamoto no Yoshitsune) defeats Benkei in a game of sugoroku

Totoya Hokkei, c. 1825

Woodblock print of a samurai in striped armor facing a snarling red demon face with green eyes and sword raised.

Raiko (Minamoto no Yorimitsu) and the demon kite

Totoya Hokkei, c. 1825

Japanese woodblock print of a sleeping man dreaming of a red child wrestling a bear with an axe above a mountain.

Kintaro dreaming of his childhood

Totoya Hokkei, 1829

Woodblock print of a woman in a striped green kimono beside a pine tray and red fish, with calligraphy.

Courtesan carrying a decorated tray

Totoya Hokkei, early to mid-1820s

Woodblock print of two women in an interior room, one in a blue floral kimono beside a flowering branch, with calligraphy abo

Promise (Seiyaku no ukei), from the series "Eighteen Illustrations of the Ladder of Ancient Words (Kogentei juhachiba…

Totoya Hokkei, 1831

Woodblock print of a robed warrior with a sword in a boat fighting a dragon among stylized blue waves.

Yu the Great battling a dragon

Totoya Hokkei, late 1820s

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman in a yellow kimono beside an incense burner and bowl, with a poem panel above.

Zeng Shen (Jp: So Shin), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko)"

Totoya Hokkei, c. 1825

Woodblock print of a fierce warrior in patterned armor holding an axe, with calligraphy panels beside him.

Metal: Li Kui (Kin, Riki), from the series "The Five Elements of The Water Margin (Suiko gogyo)"

Totoya Hokkei, early 1830s

Japanese woodblock print of a seated courtier with a fan beside poetry, above a fan-shaped view of pine islands and clouds.

Matsushima: Shunzei, No. 1 from "Three Famous Scenes (Sankei no uchi: Sono ichi)"

Totoya Hokkei, c. 1833

Woodblock print of a decorated purse with tassel and mallet beside a round spiral-patterned object, with calligraphy above.

Purse and mallet

Totoya Hokkei, n.d.

Japanese woodblock print of bearded warrior Guan Yu seated under white blossoms, holding a black fan, with poem cartouche.

No. 2: Guan Yu (Sono ni: Kan'u), from the series "Three Heroes of Shu (Shoku sanketsu)"

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1824

Woodblock print of a bearded warrior seated under white blossoms beside a large jar, with a poem cartouche above.

No. 3: Zhang Fei (Sono san: Chohi), from the series "Three Heroes of Shu (Shoku sanketsu)"

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1824

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a blossom-patterned white kimono with a floating paper, framed by an ornamental border

Ono no Komachi, from the series "Framed Pictures of Women for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushikaren gakumen fujin awase)"

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1822

Woodblock print of a seated courtesan in a patterned kimono holding a scroll, with hairpins and calligraphy beside her.

Kyoto: Courtesan of the Shimabara, from an untitled series of the three capitals

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1820s/30s

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor as a courtesan in a patterned robe, with blossoms and a dark sky behind her.

The actor Iwai Kumesaburo II as the courtesan Katsuragi in the play "Oichiza Soga no Shimadai," performed at the Kawa…

Utagawa Kunisada I, 1827

Pen and wash drawing of robed figures and a crowned man at a doorway beside a classical column and draped curtains.

Philippus II van Macedonië ziet de verwekking van Alexander de Grote

Leonaert Bramer, 1655

Ink and wash drawing of a chariot and galloping horses in battle, with armoured warriors and fallen soldiers on the ground.

Philippus II van Macedonië en Alexander de Grote op 17-jarige leeftijd in de strijd tegen Thebe

Leonaert Bramer, 1655

Two architectural elevation drawings of a building with arcades and corner domes, labelled Sub divo, on a grey mount.

Wettbewerbsprojekt für die Redoutensäle in Innsbruck, Kennwort "Sub divo", Aufrisse

Joseph von Wieser, 1885

Two ink architectural sections of a competition design with arcades, gabled roofs and a metre scale bar on blue-grey mount.

Wettbewerbsprojekt für die Redoutensäle in Innsbruck, Kennwort "Sub divo", Schnitte

Joseph von Wieser, 1885

Etching of the Borobudur temple terraces with stupas, seated Buddha figures in niches, and figures with a parasol in the fore

Boroboedoer

Marius Bauer, 1926

Japanese print of a noblewoman and attendant by the sea beside a panel of plum blossoms against a full moon.

Plum blossoms and poet, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, c. 1825

Triptych Japanese print of samurai in battle with an explosion, flying debris and burning structures.

Battle of Nanba (Nanba senki no uchi)

Kawanabe Kyōsai, after 1871

Engraving of a night street fight with two swordsmen, a torch-bearing soldier, a fallen man, and townhouses behind.

Frezin door Goignies gedood, 1581

Theodoor Koning, 1787