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Art Institute of Chicago

24,212 works

Woodblock print of an elderly man with white beard in a colorful robe holding a staff, with falling petals above.

Evening Snow on White Hair (Shiraga bosetsu), from the series "Personal Encounters from Eight Performances (Omi hakkei)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1847/52

Woodblock print of a tattooed monk beneath a waterfall, with a red demon and a floating woman in blue above.

The Austerities of Saint Mongaku

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885

Etching of a ragged man lying back on a slope beneath a leaning bare tree under a stormy sky.

The Death of the Vagabond

Alphonse Legros, 1855-77

Woodblock print of a fisherman riding a sea turtle through waves toward a palace with attendants on the right.

Urashima Taro Returning Home from the Palace of the Dragon King (Urashima Taro no ko kikoku ju Ryugujo no zu)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1886

Hand-colored title page engraving of dippers and a nest beside a waterfall, rocks, and evergreen trees.

Dippers and Nest, from The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands

George Baxter, 1834

Hand-colored title page showing two little grebes beside a nest with eggs among reeds at the water's edge.

Little Grebes and Nests, from The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands

George Baxter, 1834

Hand-coloured print of a brown eagle perched on a mossy branch with a vulture flying above against a rocky cliff.

Eagle and Vulture

George Baxter, 1834

Hand-coloured print of an elderly harpist playing in a churchyard beside a woman and two children near a stone tomb.

The Welsh Harper

George Baxter, 1835

Engraved seascape of a sailboat on rough waves beneath a dark storm sky, with numbered cloud types labelled.

Modifications of Clouds

George Baxter, 1835

Hand-coloured print of a winged angel above a cliff and sea, with a rainbow, a temple, and a kneeling figure below.

The End of Time

George Baxter, 1835

Oil-colour print of an aurora over a dark polar sea, with rocky cliffs, a polar bear on the shore, and a shooting star.

Polar Sky

George Baxter, 1835

Title page of The Heavens by Robert Mudie with a tinted illustration of a glowing sun and two orbiting planets.

The Seasons

George Baxter, 1836

Title page of The Heavens by Robert Mudie, with a grey oil colour print of a sun and two orbiting planets.

The Seasons

George Baxter, 1835

Hand-coloured vignette of a shepherd with a dog and cattle in a green landscape, on a title page reading The Earth.

Temperate

George Baxter, 1835

Colored print of a volcano erupting with orange lava and dark smoke above brown mountain peaks and clouds.

Scene on the Mountain Tops

George Baxter, 1835

Title page of The Air with a small colored illustration of a bird in flight against a pale blue cloud.

Air Bird

George Baxter, 1835

Hand-colored print of a three-masted ship on rough waves at sunset, with a distant ship and seabirds under a glowing sky.

Evening on the Sea

George Baxter, 1835

Hand-coloured vignette of figures on a beach beside two sailboats, with cloudy sky and distant headland.

The Shore

George Baxter, 1835

Hand-coloured print of a yellow stagecoach with four horses passing a gate, a couple embracing at right, and a castle on the

Caroline Mordaunt

George Baxter, 1835

Hand-coloured print of Virginia Water with a sailing ship, rowing boats, pavilions, and figures on a shoreline.

Virginia Water

George Baxter, 1836

Hand-colored print of peasants dancing near a garlanded statue, with a harpist at left and a castle on a mountain behind.

Bohemian Peasants, Near Toplitz

George Baxter, 1836

Hand-coloured print of costumed peasants cheering on a barrel raft with a maypole, riding rapids below misty mountains and a

Hungarian Peasants

George Baxter, 1836

Colour print of a South Down sheep standing on a grassy hill with rolling landscape and a windmill behind.

South Down Sheep

George Baxter, 1836

Title page with a colored illustration of a blue convolvulus flower, a bud, and green leaves on a vine.

Convolvulus Leaves, Flower, and Bud, from Baxter's Agricultural and Horticultural Gleaner

George Baxter, 1836

Hand-coloured print of an auricula plant with green-petalled flowers, cream centres and broad ruffled leaves.

The Conqueror of Europe (Auricula)

George Baxter, 1836

Colour print of a mosaic pavement with geometric meander borders and roundels containing figures, in red, cream and blue.

The Mosaic Pavement at Pitney, also called At Pitney, Co. Somt. 1829

George Baxter, 1836

Colour print of a Roman mosaic pavement with geometric borders and reclining figures in panels, by George Baxter, 1836.

The Mosaic Pavement at Pitney, also called The Roman Pavement at Pitney

George Baxter, 1836

Print of a lion on a rocky ledge above grazing antelopes, with mountains and clouds behind a palm tree.

Turn of the Monsoon

George Baxter, 1837

Title page of Spring with a hand-colored vignette of a bird perched on a bare tree over a pale green landscape.

A Bird of Spring

George Baxter, 1837

Colour print of Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore with a white palace, cypress trees, boats, and mountains behind.

Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore, Italy

George Baxter, 1837