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Art Institute of Chicago

755 works

Woodblock print of pine trees, a wooden footbridge over a blue inlet, two women on the bank, and a moored boat.

Mokubo Temple, Uchigawa Inlet, and Gozensaihata (Mokuboji Uchigawa Gozensaihata), from the series "One Hundred Famous…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Woodblock print of Kiyomizu Hall at Shinobazu Pond with cherry blossoms, pines and visitors on a red veranda.

Kiyomizu Hall and Shinobazu Pond at Ueno (Ueno Kiyomizudo Shinobazu no ike), from the series "One Hundred Famous View…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856

Hand-colored print of a canal with a rowing boat, a large tree, townhouses and strolling figures on the quay.

View of the Golden Bend on the Herengracht Canal, Amsterdam

Jan van Call, c. 1694

Woodblock print of two women on a veranda at night, with figures under umbrellas walking past rice paddies beyond.

Evening Rain at Nihonzutsumi (Nihonzutsumi no yau), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1768/69

Japanese woodblock print of a young warrior with a sword beside a white heron on a post, standing on a bridge over water.

Ushiwaka-maru on the Gojo Bridge

Ippitsusai Bunchō, reprint of c. 1769 design

Woodblock print of women in kimono with a parasol and a child walking past a lantern on a shopping street.

The Nakamise Shopping Street, from the series "Eight Precincts of the Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryuzan…

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1782

Woman in patterned kimono with parasol on stone steps beside red gate, snowy mountain and pine behind, Japanese woodblock pri

Evening Snow at Kinryuzan Temple (Kinryuzan no bosetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo h…

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1778

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in kimono beside a screen, looking out at geese descending over a field.

Descending Geese at Mimeguri (Mimeguri no rakugan), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1778

Woodblock print of the Sumida River with boats, a bridge pillar on the left, and riverside houses and trees.

Sumida River seen from Azuma Bridge (Azumabashi yori Sumida wo miru no zu), from a group of Western-style landscapes

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1800/05

Woodblock print of a snowy canal with bare trees, an arched bridge, small boats, and snow-covered rooftops under grey sky.

Sanya Canal and Matsuchi Hill (Sanyabori Matsuchiyama), section of a sheet from the series "Cutouts of Famous Places…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1852

Hand-colored caricature of two men in top hats facing two women with lances and feathered hats on a street.

Female Lancers - or A Scene in St. James's Street

Isaac Robert Cruikshank, published January, 1819

Etching of a stone arch bridge over a river, with a rider and grazing horse beneath a tree on the right.

Bridge

Charles-François Daubigny, 1862

Lithograph by Odilon Redon of a distant city with arches and towers above a dark rock in the foreground, under a shadowed sky

And I John Saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, Coming Down from God Out of Heaven, plate 11 of 12

Odilon Redon, 1899

Color print of women in plumed hats walking a cobbled city street past brick buildings, a tree and a child in red.

Street Scene

Maurice Prendergast, c. 1891-94

Pencil drawing of a rocky landscape with waterfalls, bridges, peasants and cattle in the foreground, and a distant castle.

Landscape with Waterfalls and Bridges, Peasants in the Foreground

the Elder Nicolaes Berchem, c. 1670

Etching of the ruined Octagonal Temple of Minerva Medica in Rome, with broken dome, arches, and small figures.

View of the Octagonal Temple of Minerva Medica, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1764, published 1800-07

Pencil drawing of a stone bridge and ruined tower with figures and shrubs in a hilly landscape.

Bridge and Ruined Tower

Johann Christoph Erhard, n.d.

Sepia etching of a stone arch bridge over a rocky gorge, framed by pine trees and a bare tree under a cloudy sky.

Little Devil's Bridge, plate 19 from Liber Studiorum

Joseph Mallord William Turner, published March 29, 1809

Sepia sketch of a domed mosque with slender minarets rising above wooden houses and a cobbled street in Constantinople.

View of Constantinople

Possibly David Roberts, 1840/45

Brown ink and wash drawing of a river landscape with an arched bridge, a tower, and trees framing the scene.

Italianate River Landscape with Bridge with Tower

Possibly after Claude Lorrain, n.d.

Etching of a canal lined with tall trees, a rowboat with two people in the foreground, and figures walking along the bank.

Canal at Charenton

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1901

Etching of a Venetian canal with a gondola moored at a palazzo doorway and a gondolier rowing past on the right.

The Canal of the Little Saint, Venice

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1909

Etching of a curved canal lined with old brick buildings, moored boats, gondolas, and figures on the quay.

The Curved Canal

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1909

Etching of a stone Roman bridge with five arches over a river, figures and boats below, a distant town beyond.

The Bridge at Rimini built by the Emperors Augustus and Tiberius, plate 16 from Some Views of Triumphal Arches and ot…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Colored pen plan of proposed docks at the Calumet River mouth, with slips into Lake Michigan and a city street grid.

Plate 72 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Sketch Diagram of Docks Suggested at the Mouth of the Calumet River…

Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1909

Architectural diagram of Chicago's street grid with red passenger subway circuits and gray freight lines radiating from the c

Plate 75 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Diagram of the City, Showing Complete System of Inner Circuits

Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1909

Pencil plan of the Michigan Avenue and Twelfth Street intersection in Chicago, showing a station, streets and plazas.

Plate 119 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Sketch Plan of the Intersection of Michigan Avenue and Twelfth Street

Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1907

Etching of a woman in a dark cloak glancing back at a night river with a lit arched bridge.

Bridge of Sighs

John Everett Millais, 1858

Architectural elevation of the Rookery Building's LaSalle Street facade, with arched windows, a central pavilion and rooftop

Rookery Building, Chicago, Illinois, LaSalle Street Elevation

Burnham & Root, 1885/87

Pencil and red chalk drawing of a narrow Middle Eastern street with domed architecture, carved balconies, and figures with a

Egyptian Street Scene

Charles François Eustache, 1842/47