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Art Institute of Chicago

755 works

Etching of St. Peter's Basilica and piazza in Rome with obelisk, colonnades, dome, carriages, and figures in the foreground.

View of St. Peter's Basilica and Piazza in the Vatican, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Brown wash drawing of allegorical figures, an armored emperor, a winged figure with banner, and putti beneath trees.

Design for Title Page of the Groot Placaatboek: Allegory of the Submission of the City of Utrecht to Emperor Charles V

Jan Wandelaar, c. 1729

Woodblock print of a bridge post with paper streamers beside a large crescent moon in a pale blue sky.

Bridge post and crescent moon

Totoya Hokkei, n.d.

Woman in a patterned kimono on a bridge gazing at a crescent moon with a rabbit, with Japanese inscriptions.

Woman on the bridge watching the moon

Katsushika Taito II, 1831

Woodblock print of a kabuki samurai crouching on a rooftop in rain while a demon-masked woman floats on clouds above.

Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Watanabe no Tsuna and Segawa Kikunojō V as the Female Demon, in “Modori Bridge” (Modoribashi)

Utagawa Kunisada, 1833

Pencil-style print of soldiers in uniform at a stone doorway and window, with a seated man in a top hat, dated 1822.

“I'm guarding city hall”

Honoré Daumier, 1822

Naive watercolor landscape with a red-roofed inn, a wooden footbridge over a stream, large trees, and birds in a pale sky.

Landscape with an Inn and a Bridge

Orra Louise White, n.d.

Lithograph of two draft horses pulling a loaded cart past a street cleaner with a shovel on a cobbled street.

Street Cleaners

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Etching of workers at a canal lock beneath an iron footbridge, with factory chimneys and smoke in the distance.

Lock of the Canal Saint-Martin, plate six from Le Long de la Seine et des Boulevards

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1890, published 1910

Pencil drawing of old timber-framed shops on Bridge Street, Chester, with signs, figures and cobbled road.

Bridge St. Chester

Alexander Stuart Boyd, n.d.

Pencil and chalk sketch of a cottage with steep roof beside a still canal, trees and a windmill in the distance.

Cottage on Edge of Canal

Henry Bright, c. 1840

Pencil drawing of a cobblestone city street with gabled buildings, dormer windows, chimneys, and small figures near an awning

City Street

William Burges, 1876

Pencil and chalk sketch of a Gothic church spire, rooftops, and a stone bridge arch beside a riverbank with bare trees.

Saint Mary's Bridge, Derby

Augustus Oakley Deacon, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of an Italianate landscape with a large tree, figures on a path, and travelers crossing a stone bridge.

Italianate Landscape with Figures Crossing Bridge

Heinrich Meyeringh, n.d.

The Man in the Street

Philipp William May, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a stream with a trestle bridge, trees on the banks and a stone arch at left, on blue-grey paper.

Stream and Trestle Bridge

Attributed to William Turner, n.d.

Sepia drawing of a stone building with arched doorway, a large tree, and a horse and cart on a street.

Church Street, Grantham

Alfred Rimmer, c. 1860

Brown wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a figure crossing a wooden bridge over a stream in the foreground.

Landscape with Figure Crossing Bridge over Stream

Thomas Sandby, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a tall pale-barked tree with spreading branches and sparse leaves on aged paper.

Regent Park Near the Canal

Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek, c. 1877

Blue monochrome print of a village street with a large scribbled tree on the left and a half-timbered house on the right.

Village Street

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1906-09

Pen and ink sketch of a figure on a road beside a gabled house, willow tree, canal, rowboat and bridge.

Figure on Road by House and Canal

Imitator of Jacob Henricus Maris, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a tree-lined road on a hill with small walking figures and a distant city with church spires.

View of City from Road on Hill

Jan Looten, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a chaotic cavalry battle with armored soldiers, horses, raised spears, and banners.

Battle of the Milvian Bridge

Johann Heintz, 1612

Lithograph of Paris street littered with falling share certificates while a man on a balcony looks on.

View Taken of the Streets of Paris after the Performance of the Famous Moralistic Comedy "La Bourse,” plate 330 from…

Honoré Daumier, 1856

Lithograph of men leaning from tenement windows along a Paris street, staring upward in alarm at the sky.

The streets of Paris are beginning to look like this every night, plate 7 from La Cométe De 1857

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Brown ink and wash landscape with a stone bridge, large tree, windmill on a hill, and cows under clouds.

Landscape with Stone Bridge in Foreground and Cows on Hillside

James Robertson, n.d.

Sepia drawing of a village street with a stone church tower, a thatched cottage, a stone wall and seated figures.

Village Church and Street

After Samuel Prout, n.d.

Three oval grey wash sketches on tan paper: a river bridge, a harbor with sailboats and cliffs, and a shore with figures.

Two Views of Ports, one View of River with Bridge

Alexandre Thiollet, n.d.

Pen drawing of a village with a curved wooden bridge over a river, a church spire, and a castle on a distant hill.

Landscape with a Curved Wooden Bridge

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1546

Etching of a Venetian canal with an arched stone bridge, a gondola on the water, figures on the quay, and old brick buildings

Venetian Canal and Bridges

Robert Frederick Blum, 1886