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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Architectural drawing of a factory building with alley and east elevations and a wall section, showing rows of arched windows

Brunswick Balke Collender Company Factory Building, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation and Section

Adler & Sullivan, Architects, 1891 Destroyed by fire on April 15, 1989

Hand-drawn 1891 architectural sheet with floor plan, stone sill schedule and chimney cap details for a Chicago factory.

Brunswick Balke Collender Company Factory Building, Chicago, Illinois, Stone Specifications

Adler & Sullivan, Architects, 1891 Destroyed by fire on April 15, 1989

Ink architectural drawing of a sliding door detail with elevation, sections and plan, annotated with dimensions on aged paper

Brunswick Balke Collender Company Factory Building, Chicago, Illinois, Multiple Views

Adler & Sullivan, Architects, 1891 Destroyed by fire on April 15, 1989

Woodblock print of passengers on a wooden ferry boat with a boatman poling along a river beside flowering shrubs and a pine.

Ferry boat

Katsushika Hokusai, n.d.

Woodblock print of two women and a child by a wooden box beside a tree and flowering plants in a grassy landscape.

Making paper cords for tying hair

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1801/18

Horizontal print of a woven hat with a red lining holding spring greens, flowers and seed pods, with trailing stems on the le

Flowers and spring greens in a hat

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1801

Engraving of nude men scrambling for coins thrown by a winged Fortune figure atop a column, with a reclining woman at right.

Fortune Distributing Her Gifts

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1590

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged allegorical figures holding a draped cloth with a medallion portrait, above reclining fi

An Allegory of the Arts Vanquishing Time, Surmounted by a Medallion Portrait of King Stanislaw August of Poland as Pa…

André Lebrun, after 1780

Engraving of Triton, a merman with a scaled fish tail, blowing a large conch shell while seated on a rocky shore.

Triton Blowing a Conch

Jacques de Gheyn III, c. 1618

Woodblock print of two red carp swimming among swirling blue waves and green pine sprigs, with a patterned border.

The Red Carp

Utagawa Toyokuni, c. 1804/18

Engraving of a bearded saint with halo, holding a staff and book, standing barefoot on a mound, with inscriptions below.

Saint Engelmundus

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Japanese print of a young warrior in red kimono stabbing a giant carp with a sword amid swirling waves.

Oniwakamaru subduing the giant carp

Totoya Hokkei, c. 1830/35

Decorative print of a curling wave in olive ink with swirling Art Nouveau linework inside a thin rectangular border.

The Wave (La vague)

Henri Gustave Jossot, April-June 1894

Woodblock print of a red-cloaked traveler in falling snow beside thatched houses on a cliff above a blue sea.

In the Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island (Sashu Tsukahara setchu), from the series "Concise Illustrated Biography of t…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1830/35

Woodblock print of three seated men tending a fire beside a tree and pavilion at night, with a poem cartouche.

Onakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason, from the series "One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu no uchi)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1842

Black chalk sketch on blue paper of a foreshortened male figure reclining with outstretched arms.

Reclining Male Nude, Foreshortened

called Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti, 1562

Pen and brown ink drawing of Bacchus and Ariadne with satyrs, nymphs and cherubs before a domed classical temple.

Bacchus and Ariadne, with Silenus, Nymphs and Satyrs

Raymond de Lafage, n.d.

Woodcut of a dense battle with pikemen, banners, armored horsemen and a castle on a hill beyond.

Battle of Hainaut, plate 3 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch

Hans Springinklee, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Night landscape woodblock print with tall pines, a waterfall, a thatched house on a cliff, and a traveler with a bundle.

Landscape (Sansui)

Utagawa Sadahide, About 1840

Woodcut of a battle with mounted knights, pikemen and cannons before a walled town with a gatehouse.

Battle of Guinegate, plate 4 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch

Wolf Traut, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Woodcut of a battle with knights, pikemen, cannons and tents before a walled city, with Latin text across the top.

War with Guelders, plate 5 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch

Wolf Traut, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Woodcut of a siege with cannons firing on a walled city, mounted knights and pikemen fighting, and tents in the foreground.

Siege of Utrecht, plate 6 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch

Wolf Traut, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Woodcut of armored soldiers and mounted knights in battle, with kneeling figures before a walled city gate.

Flemish Rebellion, plate 7 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch

Wolf Traut, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Woodcut of a dense battle with mounted knights and pikemen below a walled town, with a Latin text panel above.

Battle for Liège, plate 8 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch

Wolf Traut, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Woodcut of a dense battle of pikemen and armored soldiers before a walled city gate, with a Latin caption above.

Second Flemish Rebellion, plate 10 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch

Hans Springinklee, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Woodcut of a kneeling man before two crowned rulers and armored soldiers, with a ship and rose banners behind them.

Maximilian and Henry VII of England, plate 11 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the T…

Erhard Schön, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Woodcut of a city surrender with a mounted ruler, kneeling figures, cannons, tents and armored soldiers beneath a Latin inscr

Capitulation of a French City, plate 12 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumph…

Wolf Traut, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Woodcut of armored soldiers and mounted knights storming a walled town, with cannon smoke rising among towers and a Latin cap

Expulsion of the Hungarians, plate 13 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal…

Hans Springinklee, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Woodcut of armored troops assaulting a walled city, with pikes, banners, tents and a Latin caption across the top.

Hungarian Campaign, plate 14 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch

Hans Springinklee, 1515-17, printed c. 1520

Pencil drawing of a thatched rustic cottage with a worker, wooden cart and tall trees under a sky with birds.

Landscape with Rustic Cottage

François Boucher, c. 1760