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Art Institute of Chicago

24,198 works

Sepia engraving of a shepherd playing a flute under a tree, with cattle and goats resting in a pastoral landscape.

Shepherd Playing the Flute

Richard Earlom, 1774

Etching of a Venetian canal with two arched doorways, a dog at the left arch, and a gondola on the water.

The Two Doorways

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Etching of harvest workers in a hayfield, with a man lifting hay, a reclining woman, a hay cart and a farmer with a pitchfork

July

Cornelis Dusart, n.d.

Etching of a wooded river landscape with a standing man, a grazing animal, a plank bridge, and distant buildings under clouds

The Swineherd

Allart van Everdingen, n.d.

Etching of a narrow London street with old timber-framed houses, gabled roofs, and a distant church steeple.

Wych Street, London

James McNeill Whistler, 1877

Engraving of a youthful figure with a flower wreath scattering petals, with sunflowers, a candle, and a garden below.

Dies

Jeremias Falck, 1645

Etching of a log cabin with two figures at its doorway, a fenced yard, trees, rocks, and an animal in the foreground.

Two Men at the Door

Allart van Everdingen, n.d.

Etching of a Venetian waterfront with strolling figures, moored boats, gondolas, and palazzo facades along a canal.

Riva, No. 2

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Woodblock print of travelers on a pine-lined road with Mount Fuji in the distance, by Utagawa Hiroshige.

Yoshiwara: Mount Fuji on the Left (Yoshiwara, hidari Fuji), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833/34

Etching of a woman tipping a wheelbarrow beside a farmhouse and bare tree, by Camille Pissarro, 1880.

Woman Emptying a Wheelbarrow

Camille Pissarro, 1880

Etching of a wooden bridge over a river with a sailing boat, a rowing boat with two figures, and carriages on the deck.

Old Putney Bridge

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a ruff, framed by nude female figures, flowers, and a Latin inscription.

Carolus Clusius

Jacob de Gheyn II, 1601

Engraving of Mars and Venus, nude figures in a landscape, with Cupid, a shield, helmet and sword in the foreground.

Mars, Venus, and Cupid

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1508

Etching of a crowded river harbor with tall-masted sailing ships, rowboats, wooden pilings and a distant city skyline.

From Billingsgate

James McNeill Whistler, 1876/77

Engraved portrait of a long-haired man in a dark cloak and white collar gesturing over an open book, with Dutch text below.

Adrian Wesel, Cleric in Amsterdam

Jacob Gole, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a ruff, framed by cherubs, a globe, a skull, and allegorical figures.

Bol, Hans (1534-1593) painter of Malines, from 1591 in Amsterdam

Hendrick Goltzius, 1593

Etching of a busy Venetian quay with figures, moored sailboats, a gondola and palazzo facades along the water.

The Riva

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Engraved portrait of a man in a tall hat and white cravat, gazing upward against a hatched background.

Portrait of Abraham Bosse

Anton Graff, n.d.

Ink sketch of Ryogoku Bridge with braced piers, boats with passengers on the river, and Mount Fuji in the distance.

Sketch of Ryogoku Bridge

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 19th century

Etching of a dilapidated timber-framed house with sagging roofs and a woman standing in a doorway.

The Unsafe Tenement

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with pearls in her hair and ermine-trimmed dress, with a crowned coat of arms below.

Marie Louise of Orleans

Pieter van Gunst, n.d.

Etching of Adam and Eve beside a fruit tree in Eden, with animals around them and a Latin inscription below.

The Garden of Eden

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1651

Etching of a dim interior with figures by a window, an open doorway framing windmills and water beyond.

The Mill

James McNeill Whistler, 1889

Japanese woodblock print of two women with an infant under a crescent moon and willow branches at night.

Young Couple with Infant Son on a Moonlit Night

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1770

Etching of Adam and Eve expelled from Eden by an angel while a skeleton with a spear drives them forward.

Expulsion from Paradise

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1651

Etching of men in caps seated at wooden tables in a tavern, one smoking a pipe, with a tankard on the table.

Longshore Men

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Lithograph of a standing moustached man and two seated women in bonnets at a theatre box railing.

The Comics' Theatre-Box

Paul Gavarni, 1834

Etching of Adam ploughing a field as a skeleton of Death holds the plough, with Eve and an infant behind him.

Adam Ploughing

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1651

Etching of an ornate arched Venetian doorway with lattice windows, a stooping figure at the threshold, and canal water below.

The Doorway

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Lithographic portrait of a seated man in a dark coat beside a book and table, with caption naming Alois Senefelder.

Portrait of Senefelder

Lorenzo Quaglio, 1818