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Engraved landscape of ruined arched buildings, walking figures, sheep and a shepherd beneath dramatic streaked clouds.

Landscape with the Great Ruins, from The Small Landscapes

Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, c. 1638

Engraved landscape of a forest stream with a shepherd leading sheep over a wooden bridge beside tall trees.

Forest Crossed by a Stream, from The Small Landscapes

Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, c. 1638

Japanese print of a seated robed man beside a white ox and blossoming plum branches, with calligraphy and a patterned canopy.

A painting of Daoist immortal Huang Chuping (Jp: Ko Shohei)

Totoya Hokkei, 1823

Brown wash drawing of two women in 18th-century dress, one leaning toward a smiling older woman in a frilled cap.

Margaruerite Gerard Reading to Her Mother and Rosalie Fragonard

Style of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1785

Watercolor of a turbaned rider on a pale horse with red harness on a sandy path under a cloudy sky.

The Turkish Rider

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1834

Etching of a seated woman holding a child beside a cow, a turbaned figure, and an owl on a branch under a tree.

The Family of the Oriental Peasant, from Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1735-40

Woodblock print of women resting on a bench under a pine tree while two men stand nearby, with green hills behind.

Fujieda station on the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1796

Lithograph of a reclining woman and kneeling man on a terrace, with a figure in a feathered cap and a distant city of spires.

Jane Shore

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Architectural elevation drawing of the William Borden residence walls with colored construction details and dormers, by Richa

William Borden Residence, Chicago, Illinois, Construction Details

Richard Morris Hunt, 1885/86

Architectural drawing of dormer window elevations, sections and plans for a Chicago residence, in ink and watercolor.

William Borden Residence, Chicago, Illinois, Dormer Details

Richard Morris Hunt, 1885/86

Pen drawing of the west elevation of William Borden's stone residence, with a central gable, corner tower and chimneys.

William Borden Residence, Chicago, Illinois, West Elevation

Richard Morris Hunt, 1885

Watercolor and pencil first-floor plan of the William Borden residence with labeled rooms, dimensions and a spiral staircase.

William Borden Residence, Chicago, Illinois, First Floor Plan

Richard Morris Hunt, 1886

Ink elevation drawing of a stone mansion with steep gables, dormers, iron roof railings, and arched entrances.

William Borden Residence, Chicago, Illinois, East Elevation

Richard Morris Hunt, 1885

Etching of a Chelsea street with shopfronts, a horse and cart, pedestrians, and windows crowded with birdcages.

Bird-Cages, Chelsea

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Japanese woodblock print of two women and a child by a marsh, with a snipe flying overhead and a thatched pavilion behind.

The Marsh Where the Snipe Takes Flight (Shigi tatsu sawa), from the series "Three Evening Poems (Sanseki no uchi)"

Katsushika Hokusai, n.d.

Pen sketch of Portsmouth harbor with sailboats and masts, and loosely drawn figures including children on the shore.

Children, Portsmouth

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Woodblock print of two women in kimono on a coast, with islands, sea and a snow-capped mountain in the distance.

Pilgrimage to Enoshima

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1821

Etching of a Parisian street with shopfronts, awnings, and small figures near the doorways under a Rue de la Rochefoucault si

Rue de la Rochefoucault

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

The Baron of Besenval

Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, n.d.

Woodblock print of three women in kimono beside a large tiger, with a bamboo-painted folding screen behind them.

The Four Sleepers in Spring Dawn (Shisui shunsho)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

Etching of a crouched figure by a still river under a dramatic cloudy sky, with a wooded hillside on the right.

A Cliff in the Parish of Rix

Adolphe Appian, 1862

Aristide Bruant, in His Cabaret

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Lithograph poster of a woman in a ruffled gown beside a greyhound under a crescent moon, with the title Le Tocsin in red.

The Chatelaine, or 'Le Tocsin'

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors: a woman in a black maple-patterned kimono and a man in a red checked robe.

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Choemon (right) and Ohan (left), in the Elopeme…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1781

Japanese woodblock print of a kimono-clad woman beside a bell and a kneeling bald monk, with blossoms and a signboard.

Parody of the play "Musume Dojoji"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1801/05

Woodblock print of two sailing boats with pink sails on a blue sea, pine branches in the foreground, and distant green hills.

Maisaka, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1804

Engraving of the Nativity: Mary and Joseph kneel beside the infant Christ, with a shepherd and an angel, and a landscape seen

Nativity

Ludwig Krug, 1516

Woodblock print of a flatfish, a speckled scorpion fish, and two shells on tan paper, in blue-green ink.

Flatfish, scorpion fish, and shells, from an untitled series of chuban prints

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831

Ink and wash first floor plan of Oakland railroad station with labeled waiting rooms, office, baggage room and platforms.

Oakland Avenue Railroad Station, Chicago, Illinois, First Floor Plan

Adler and Sullivan, 1886

Architectural elevation drawing of the Oakland railroad station facade with gables, brick arches, and annotated materials.

Oakland Avenue Railroad Station, Chicago, Illinois, East Elevation

Adler and Sullivan, 1886