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Art Institute of Chicago

5,122 works

Pencil perspective drawing of a vaulted church interior with Corinthian columns, arched galleries and rows of pews.

Study for St. Martin's in the Fields, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Rams' Skulls

George Hayter, n.d.

Pen and watercolor drawing of the dead Christ mourned by figures, with angels and cherubs carrying a cross in the clouds abov

Church of the Capuchins Parma

William Kent, September 1714

Pencil drawing of a domed cathedral interior with towering columns, coffered ceilings, sculptures and small standing figures

Study for St. Paul's Cathedral, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated male nude with a small sketch of an archer in the lower left.

Seated Male Nude with Sketch of Nude Archer

George Hayter, 1808

Pen and brown ink drawing of mourners lowering a body onto an inscribed tomb, with three crosses on a distant hill.

The Entombment of Christ

after Andrea Mantegna, n.d.

Pencil study of a circular lecture hall with columns, a gallery balcony, rows of seated audience and a raised platform.

Study for Surrey Institution, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Colored drawing of a reclining nude man with a cupid above him, two women beside a tree, and classical architecture behind.

Allegory of Love: Scorn

after Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, n.d.

Brown watercolor of a Gothic hall with a man lifting a crown over a seated young couple, an elderly woman watching nearby.

Edwy and Elgiva

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a colonnaded hall with classical columns, a domed structure, and a crowd of people and horses.

Study for Tattersall's Repository, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Sepia watercolor of a large tree over resting sheep, a woman at left, and a man sketching at lower right.

Man Sketching and Woman with Herd of Sheep Beneath Tree

Samuel John Stump, c. 1830

Watercolor of boys peering into a peepshow box held by a man on a city street, with a church spire behind.

Boys at Peepshow in Street

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a Gothic church interior with clustered columns, ribbed vaults, a gallery, and iron railings.

Study for Temple Church, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling man in court dress pleading with women in a colonnaded courtyard.

Louis XIV Pleading with Louise de La Vallière at the Carmelite Convent at Chaillot

Pierre-Maximilien Delafontaine, 1780/1800

Pen and watercolor drawing of a man in green walking a plank onto a boat while figures watch on a hillside shore.

Man Mounting Plank to Boat

after Leonard Bramer, 1660/69

Pencil drawing of the Tower of London with domed turrets, seen over a railing and a crowd of small figures.

Study for The Tower Taken from the New Mint, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Brown wash drawing of artists and onlookers gathered by an easel outside a stone building, with a distant city.

Artists and Amateurs

John Partridge, 1832

Watercolor of two women on stone steps before an ornate carved stone doorway with an iron lantern.

Two Women in a Doorway

Lawrence Carmichael Earle, 1882

Pencil sketch of armored horsemen riding in procession past an arcaded stone wall with ornate trim.

Study for Horse Armory Tower, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Brown wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with bearded saints and cherubs in clouds, on grey-blue paper.

Madonna and Child with Saints

Attributed to Giovanni Battista Carlone, n.d.

Pencil and red chalk drawing of a singer and a bearded lute player in turbans beside sheet music and an inkwell.

Singer and Lute Player

Mary Trevor, 1818

Pencil sketch of an ornate interior with seated figures at a long table, a fireplace, bookshelves and a decorated ceiling.

Study for Board of Trade, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Pen and watercolor drawing of two helmeted soldiers with plumed crests facing each other in close conversation.

Two Helmeted Soldiers Conversing

Possibly Giuseppe Passeri, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a minstrel playing a lute near a horse, with a round stone tower and tree in the background.

Blondel and Richard Coeur de Lion

Mary Trevor, 1826

Pencil drawing of a formal meeting room with long tables, seated men, a large wall painting, and ornate drapery.

Study for Trinity House, from Microcosm of London (recto); Architectural Sketch of Row House Facades (verso)

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Sepia wash drawing of men shearing sheep in a barn, with fleece on the floor and wooden beams overhead.

Shearing the Sheep

Attributed to Henry Singleton, c. 1820

Watercolor of a woman in folk costume holding hands with a barefoot boy on a dirt road across an open plain.

Woman in Native Costume with Boy on Road

After Bartolomeo Pinelli, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a church interior with a coffered dome, Corinthian columns, pews, and a pulpit.

Study for St. Stephen's Walbrook, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809

Pen and watercolor drawing of a horseman, a bull and dogs in foreground, a crowd approaching a walled city under hills.

Danans Right to the Crown on Argos Confirmed

Attributed to Sawrey Gilpin, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing with wash of rocky rapids and trees, with a resting figure and a dog in the foreground.

Warrior and Dog Resting by Rocky Rapids

Attributed to Franz Kobell, n.d.