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Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Victorian valentine card with pink roses in an urn, embossed lace border, and a cursive verse in a central panel.

If Souls Could Always Dwell Above (Valentine)

H. Dobbs, 1855/60

Valentine card with embossed lace paper border, painted flower bouquet in a medallion, and a printed verse scroll.

Maiden Fair of High Degree (valentine)

Joseph Mansell, 1845/50

Victorian valentine with embossed lace border, hand-colored flower bouquet, and handwritten verse in script.

Flowers are the Brightest Things (valentine)

George Kershaw, 1855/60

Lace valentine card with a painted pink rose bouquet, a metallic bow above and a metallic bird below.

Untitled Valentine (Bouquet)

George Kershaw, 1855/60

Valentine card with lace border, pink rose and blue flowers, and an arrow piercing a banner with a love verse.

My Heart Beats Fondly (Valentine)

Joseph Addenbrooke, 1850/59

Valentine card with lace border, painted flower wreath around a BE MINE banner, cupid, doves, and a pierced heart at top.

Be Mine (Valentine)

Joseph Mansell, 1845/50

Victorian Valentine card with white paper lace gothic arches, two cupids holding a banner reading LOVE FOR LOVE, and a centra

Love for Love (Valentine)

David Mossman, 1850/59

Embossed valentine card with painted roses, forget-me-nots, a gold heart, blue ribbon rosettes and a 'Don't Forget Me' banner

Don't Forget Me (valentine)

Joseph Mansell, 1845/50

Die-cut paper lace valentine with painted purple and yellow pansies, a small bird, and floral sprigs in the corners.

Untitled Valentine (Large Purple and Yellow Flowers)

Dobbs Kidd, 1815/30, inscribed 1865

Valentine of white cut-paper lace on green with a framed portrait of a bearded man and a floral wreath.

Forget Me Not (valentine)

George Meek, c. 1857

Lace-edged paper valentine with a central round medallion of red and turquoise cutwork and a black ribbon bow below.

Untitled Valentine (Wreath with Rope Tie)

Joseph Mansell, c. 1850

La France

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1912

Saint Bartholomew, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man gazing upward with one hand raised, identified as Saint Andrew.

Saint Andrew, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Saint Matthew, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Saint Simon, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Engraved head study of a man with curly hair and a draped cloth, inscribed Sanctus Thaddaeus, after Piazzetta.

Saint Theodore, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Engraved portrait of a bearded man with clasped hands gazing upward, holding a staff, inscribed Sanctus Thomas.

Saint Thomas, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man looking upward, holding keys, inscribed Sanctus Petrus.

Saint Peter, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Engraved portrait of a bearded saint gazing upward while holding a long axe, with a cloak draped over his shoulder.

Saint Matthias, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Engraved portrait of a bearded older man with a staff, inscribed Sanctus Paulus, after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.

Saint Paul, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Saint Jacobus the Great, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Engraved portrait of a bearded old man with long hair holding a staff, with a white dove at his side.

God the Creator, from The Holy Family and the Twelve Apostles

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1742

Lithograph of a child reading an open book, surrounded by sketched heads, a sailboat, and a distant skyline.

Child Drawing (Jean Buhot)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1892

Color print of two women, one carrying a large laundry bundle, beside a blue balcony railing with a hazy city view behind the

The Laundresses, from the third album of L'Estampe Originale

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1894

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a standing nude man holding a staff, one hand raised to his forehead, on tan paper.

Standing Male Nude (recto); Classical Head (verso)

Paul Émile Detouche, n.d.

Caricature of Sarah Bernhardt in a yellow patterned gown with a small dog and scattered gold coins on a black background.

Sarah Bernhardt - New York's Latest High Pressure Craze; double-page spread from "Chic" magazine (27 October 1880)

Charles Kendrick, 1880

Color print by Roc Wagner, 1899: Uncle Sam with a scroll beside a shirtless armed man before a city skyline.

Our Gift of Freedom, from The Criterion

Roc Wagner, 1899

Colored political cartoon of a veiled figure above two robed men and a kneeling crowd, with a sign promising prosperity.

The Great Unknown, from Puck

Louis Dalrymple, 1896

Colored political cartoon: a skeleton labeled Skeleton of Scandal bursts from a closet marked Republican Family Closet as men

They Can't Keep Him Hid, from Puck

Louis Dalrymple, n.d.