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Art Institute of Chicago

755 works

Pen and ink drawing of a weathered wooden barn beside a plank bridge, with dense shrubs and trees behind it.

Barn and Bridge

Henry Stacy Marks, n.d.

Woodblock print of a crowded Edo street with parasols, shop banners, a pack horse, and geese flying over trees.

The Yamashita District of Ueno (Ueno Yamashita), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Etching of Trajan's Column in Rome with a tall spiral-carved shaft, a statue on top, and a domed church to the right.

Trajan's Column, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Hand-colored broadside showing three jockeys racing horses past a flag-topped tower, with a printed newspaper text and progra

The Street Gazette: Grand Inauguration of the New Racetrack Situated on Peñón Hill in Mexico City

José Guadalupe Posada, December 3, 1893

Woodblock print of a busy Edo street with a merchant shop, blue noren curtains, people with red umbrellas, and distant trees.

Shitaya Hirokoji, from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)”

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856

Etching of the Acqua Paola fountain with cascading water, arched facade, workers, and a carriage, by Piranesi.

View of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Paola on Monte Aureo, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Black and white woodcut of a dense crowd in top hats and bowler hats moving along a cobbled street, with bold black silhouett

Parading through the Streets in Single File

Félix Edouard Vallotton, 1893

Woodblock print of a green hill with cherry blossoms, a river, and snow-capped Mount Fuji on the horizon under a red sky.

New Fuji, Meguro (Meguro, Shin Fuji), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Etching of tall Roman ruins with three coffered arches, fallen stones, small figures and a church tower under clouds.

View of the Remains of the Dining Room of the Golden House of Nero, commonly called the Temple of Peace, from Views o…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Etching of a Chicago avenue with a tall spired tower, rubble in the foreground, and small pedestrians in an open lot.

Michigan Avenue, Chicago (The City Dirtyful)

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Woodblock print of a plum orchard in bloom with thatched teahouses, a garden swing, and strolling figures under pink blossoms

The Plum Orchard at Kamata (Kamata no umezono), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Etching of overgrown Roman ruins with a broken pediment, arch, and receding columns, with two small figures in the foreground

Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoporticus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati ro…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1766

Hand-coloured print of Richmond Bridge over a river, with boats, sitting figures and willow trees in the foreground.

Richmond Bridge

George Baxter, 1851

Woodblock print of towboats pulled along a winding canal past thatched houses and pine trees, with a distant mountain.

Towboats along the Yotsugidori Canal (Yotsugidori yosui hikifune), from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Etching of weathered ancient walls and ruins at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, with small figures and mountains beyond.

View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the Poecile], Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1770

Drawing of Palermo harbor with Monte Pellegrino behind, boats on the water, and figures on rocks in the foreground.

View of the City and Harbor of Palermo with a View of Monte Pellegrino

Adrien Manglard, n.d.

Woodblock print of Ichigaya Hachiman Shrine with cherry blossoms, shrine roofs, a canal, shops and pedestrians beneath birds.

Ichigaya Hachiman Shrine (Ichigaya Hachiman), from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)”

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Etching of a ruined brick temple with Corinthian capitals, goats and herders in the foreground, and a small temple in the dis

Ancient temple commonly called the Temple of Health on the Via d'Albano five miles outside Rome, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1763

Woodblock print of bearded Shoki in a wide hat standing on a bridge while a small demon crouches in rushing water below.

Shoki (Chinese: Zhong Kui), the demon queller, standing on a bridge

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1765/70

Woodblock print of a boatman poling a ferry past warehouses, with a woman under a parasol and swallows in the sky.

Yoroi Ferry, Koami-cho (Yoroi no watashi Koami-cho), from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hya…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Etching of Rome's Capitoline Hill with a grand staircase, church tower, equestrian statue and small figures.

View of the Capitoline Hill with the steps to the Church of S. Maria in Aracoeli, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750/59

Hand-colored print of a busy Chicago street with carriages, a streetcar, flags and pedestrians in period dress.

Randolph Street, Chicago, from Clark to State Streets in the Year 1865

Raoul Varin, 1926-28

Woodblock print of large black carp streamers over Edo river and bridge, with Mount Fuji in the distance.

Suido Bridge and Surugadai (Suidobashi Surugadai), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakk…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Etching of the ruined Temple of Hercules at Cori with columns, a bell tower, overgrown rubble and small figures in the foregr

View of the Temple of Hercules at Cori, ten miles distant from Velletri, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769, published 1800-07

Hand-colored print of 1864 Chicago lakefront with sailboats, rowboats, a steam train, and well-dressed figures on the shore.

Michigan Avenue at the Foot of Madison Street, Chicago, with a view of the Illinois Central Station in the Year 1864

Raoul Varin, 1926

Woodblock print of a giant turtle hanging over a river with sailboats and Mount Fuji in the distance.

Mannen Bridge, Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannenbashi), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Etching of the interior nave of St. John Lateran basilica, with coffered ceiling, columns, statues and a distant altar.

Interior view of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1768

Woodblock print of a peasant carrying grain bundles over an arched bridge under a full moon, with reeds and river.

A Peasant Crossing a Bridge, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems

Katsushika Hokusai, late 1830s

Woodblock print of a crowded wooden bridge over a river with sailboats, rowboats, and market stalls under a red sunset sky.

Ryogoku Bridge and the Great Riverbank (Ryogokubashi Okawabata), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Me…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856

Etching of Roman tomb ruins with brick columns and a round tomb among overgrown ruins and small figures.

A. View of the Tomb of Licinianus Piso on the ancient Appian Way... B. Tomb of the Cornelii..., from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1764, published 1800-07