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Art Institute of Chicago

24,212 works

Title page of Summer with a hand-colored orange and black butterfly on a pale blue oval, labeled Summer Fly.

Summer Fly

George Baxter, 1837

Colored print of villagers dancing in a vineyard with grapevines, watermelons, a white building and a mountain behind.

Vineyard near Mount St. Bernard

George Baxter, 1837

Title page with a brown spider on a blue-tinted web, captioned Autumnal Artist, from Robert Mudie's Autumn, 1837.

Autumnal Artist

George Baxter, 1837

Colour print of an avalanche of snow sweeping down a slope onto brick houses, with small figures in the snow.

Avalanche at Lewes

George Baxter, 1837

Title page with a colored vignette of two red-breasted birds feeding in snow beneath a leaded window.

Winter Bird

George Baxter, 1837

Advice on the Care of Teeth

George Baxter, 1837

Color print of a reclining woman in white and red drapes holding a small serpent, labeled Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.

Cleopatra

George Baxter, 1837

Coloured print of a thatched old water mill beside a stream, with a large tree, a horse, a dog and figures.

The Old Water Mill

George Baxter, 1838

Hand-colored vignette of a sailing ship at night under a full moon, with a tower on the shore and stormy waves.

English Ship by Moonlight (Melaia)

George Baxter, 1838

Hand-colored print of Milo of Crotona in blue tunic and red cloak forcing apart a split oak trunk by a forest stream.

Milo of Crotona Rending the Oak

George Baxter, 1838

Hand-coloured print of the classical statue The Dying Gladiator on a title page for Robert Mudie's book Man.

The Dying Gladiator

George Baxter, 1838

Colour print of a painter with palette and easel conversing with a robed scholar in a studio beside a classical statue.

Lo Studio

George Baxter, 1839

Title page of Man by Robert Mudie with a tinted engraving of Michelangelo's seated Moses statue.

Michaelangelo's Moses

George Baxter, 1839

Hand-colored print of a family in a parlor: a man in green with a child, a woman in blue holding an infant, and a cat on a ru

Domestic Happiness

George Baxter, 1840

Title page of Man in His Relations to Society with a tinted vignette of a sleeping child on a cushioned bed.

Child on a Bed

George Baxter, 1840

Hand-coloured print of a classical scene: a toga-clad man gestures before columns, with armed soldiers, shields and a banner

The Judgment of Brutus

George Baxter, 1840

Title page with a green-tinted engraved bust of Socrates on a pedestal above the publisher's London imprint.

Socrates

George Baxter, 1840

Two girls in red and blue dresses walk past stone gate pillars while other children play under an autumn tree.

Children Outside Gates of a Mansion (Tales for Girls)

George Baxter, 1836

Sepia print of a parsonage on a hillside beside tall trees, with figures on a path and a village in the distance.

Parsonage at Ovingham

George Baxter, 1839

Colour print of a seated man in a dark coat beside a window showing a sailing ship at sea.

Rev. John Williams

George Baxter, 1837

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark coat beside a window showing a ship at sea, with handwritten signature below.

Rev. John Williams (Small)

George Baxter, 1840

Hand-colored print of a tattooed man with feathered headdress holding a spear, with canoe and sailing ship on water behind.

Te Po, a Chief of Rarotonga

George Baxter, 1837

Engraved print of the sailing ship John Wesley cresting rough waves, with a distant shoreline and small boats in an oval fram

The John Wesley Missionary Ship

George Baxter, 1838/41

Hand-colored print of a man in a top hat in a boat meeting islanders in a canoe, with mountains and palms behind.

The Rev. J. Williams First Interview with the Natives of Erromanga

George Baxter, 1842

Hand-coloured print of a Wesleyan mission church and house above a shore, with canoes of people arriving for worship.

Wesleyan Mission Station at Waingaroa, New Zealand. Natives Assembling for Worship

George Baxter, 1846

Hand-coloured print of mission buildings with thatched roofs, two men on a dirt path, and a large tree.

The Mission Premises at the Kuruman Station

George Baxter, 1842

Hand-coloured print of a columned neoclassical chapel on a Madras street, with palm trees and figures in the foreground.

The Wesleyan Chapel, Popham's Broadway, Madras

George Baxter, 1846

Colour print of a burning three-masted ship during a lightning storm, with a crowded rowboat of survivors in the foreground.

Destruction of the Tanjore by Lightening, off Ceylon

George Baxter, 1844

Hand-colored print of a Hindu temple with a spired roof beside palm trees, with figures bathing at a pool in the foreground.

Hindoo Temple at Gyah Bahar

George Baxter, 1847

Hand-coloured print of six Malagasy men in colourful wraps on a shore with palms, rocks, and a sailing ship at sea.

The Six Malagasy Christians (now in England) Waiting at Tamatava to Embark for Mauritius

George Baxter, 1840