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Art Institute of Chicago

23,908 works

Engraving of a cannon on a carriage beside standing figures, with a village of thatched roofs and hills behind.

Landscape with Cannon

Albrecht Dürer, 1518

Etching of a town with spires and rooftops under a dramatic cloudy sky, framed by dark trees in the foreground.

Out of Study Window

Francis Seymour Haden, 1859

Etching of a stone turret with conical roof, ivy, smoking chimneys and figures in a busy old street.

Tourelle de la rue de la Tixeranderie

Charles Meryon, 1852

Engraving of shepherds and animals in a landscape as an angel descends in rays of light above a village.

The Departure of Abraham for Sichem, from Cabinet Reynst

Cornelis Visscher, c. 1655-58

Engraving of a woman with a swaddled baby, a child holding a bowl, another child behind her, in a landscape with a tree.

The Bohemian Woman

Cornelis Visscher, c. 1656-58

Etching of an old rat catcher with a feathered hat, holding a pole with a rat cage, beside a boy and a dog.

The Rat Catcher

Cornelis Visscher, 1655

Engraved portrait of a clergyman in a black skullcap and dark cloak, hands clasped, with books beside him and text below.

Petrus Proclius

Jan de Visscher, n.d.

Daumier lithograph of two men and a woman with a parasol on an open plain, one man gesturing toward a distant house.

At Varenne, Saint-Maur. “There! My country house", plate 418 from Souvenirs d’artistes

Honoré Daumier, 1862

Lithograph of top-hatted men laughing at an outdoor café table under trees, with a waiter and another man at right.

“- I never laughed so much as at the funeral of Bourdin's daughter.......” (Henri Monnier), plate 303 from Souvenirs…

Honoré Daumier, 1862

Engraved portrait of a bearded man with curly hair and a draped cloak, standing before a column and cloudy sky.

Daniel Mytens

Paulus Pontius, 1630/45

Woodblock print of a kingfisher in flight above reeds and yellow water flowers on a pond.

Kingfisher above a Yellow-flowered Water Plant

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1853, third month

Pen and brown ink study of three standing figures in cloaks and hats, two women and one man in a wide hat.

Two Studies of a Roma Woman and a Roma Boy in a Large Hat

Jacob de Gheyn II, c. 1605

Grisaille watercolor of two draped figures beside a pillar and a winged griffin relief on a pedestal.

They had Arrived Before a Pillared Porch

Will Hicock Low, 1885

Etching of a peasant family at a table in a rustic room, with a satyr seated on a chair at right beside cabbages.

The Satyr in Peasant's House

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1764

Pencil sketch of a dredge boat with a tall smokestack and angled machinery beside a small rowboat on water.

A Dredge

Charles Meryon, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a lashed wicker and wooden float on water, with a woven hull and crossing pole frame.

A New Zealand Float

Charles Meryon, n.d.

Lithograph of a soldier in a shako and a bearded man in a fur hat standing beside a bush, sketched in soft tones.

Sheet with Stumped Sketch

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1839

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

Night lithograph of soldiers in bearskin caps and uniforms gathered before the columns of the Pantheon, with smoke rising.

Place du Pantheon, Night of December 22 to 23, 1830

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1831

Lithograph of a battle at Lutzen with mounted cavalry, infantry, fallen soldiers and drifting battlefield smoke.

Lutzen, May 2, 1813

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1831

Lithograph of horses going to a fair, with a rider and a leading figure beside a stone pillar on rocky ground.

Horses Going to a Fair, plate 3 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone

Théodore Géricault, 1821

Lithograph of an officer holding a torn flag beside a wounded soldier, with musketeers and smoke behind them.

The Wounded Standard-Bearer

Hippolyte Bellangé, 1823-35

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a cap and white collar, with a draped cloak and Latin inscription below.

Inigo Jones

Robert van Voerst, 1630/36, printed c. 1800

Pale watercolor sketch of a white horse galloping with a rider, a gallows on the right and a crescent moon at left.

Death on a White Horse

Possibly Henry Fuseli, n.d.

Engraving of Saint Mark with halo, writing at a desk with a book and inkwell, a lion beside him.

Saint Mark, from The Four Evangelists

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

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.

Etching of bare trees in a woodland with a small figure and village rooftops seen beyond, by Camille Pissarro.

Woodlands at the Hermitage

Camille Pissarro, 1879

Head of an Old Woman (so-called portrait of Visscher's mother)

Cornelis Visscher, c. 1649-58

Engraving of Saint Matthew writing with a quill, with a halo and an angel peering over his shoulder.

Saint Matthew, from The Four Evangelists

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Engraved seated portrait of an older man in a dark robe and skullcap, holding a quill pen, by Cornelis Visscher.

Lieven van Coppenol

Cornelis Visscher, 1658