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755 works

Watercolor of a old stone arched bridge over a calm river, with a small boat, poplar trees and a cloudy sky.

The Old Bridge at Mantes

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1827

Pen and wash drawing of a busy canal market with crowds, stalls, boats, and a church tower on the horizon.

Market near a Canal

Jan van Goyen, 1651

Hand-colored print of Westminster Abbey's Gothic west towers with pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage on the street.

Westminster Abbey, Hospital and Company, plate seven from Original Views of London as It Is

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842

Etching of the Grand Canal in Venice with gondolas, palazzo facades, and people on a stone quay.

View of the Grand Canal

Frank Duveneck, 1883

Pen and wash drawing of clergy in procession beside an arched bridge, with marching soldiers and cavalry on a hill.

Pope Visiting Construction Site of a Bridge

Possibly attributed to Ciro Ferri, n.d.

Hand-colored print of Buckingham Palace seen across a park lake, with strollers, swans, and a punt in the foreground.

Buckingham Palace from St.James Park, plate eleven from Original Views of London as It Is

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a long wooden trestle bridge over a river, with hills and temple buildings beyond.

Okazaki: Yahagi Bridge (Okazaki, Yahagi no hashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido goju…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833/34

Brown wash drawing of a waterfall below a stone arched bridge and hilltop buildings framed by trees.

View of Tivoli with the Bridge Over the Anio Waterfall

Cornelius van Poelenburgh, 1620

Hand-colored street view of St. Paul's Cathedral dome beyond a busy London street with carriages and pedestrians.

St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill, plate 24 from Original Views of London as It Is

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842

Woodblock print of a busy fish market with vendors carrying baskets of fish past wooden stalls and tiled roofs.

The Fish Market at Zakoba (Zakoba uoichi no zu), from the series "Famous Views of Osaka (Naniwa meisho zue)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1834

Red chalk drawing of timber houses on piles beside a stone arch bridge over a canal, with trees and walking figures.

Old Houses on Canal

After Jan van de Velde, I, n.d.

Hand-coloured 1842 street scene of Temple Bar from the Strand, with carts, crowds, shop signs and the stone gateway.

Temple Bar from The Strand, plate 22 from Original Views of London as It Is

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842

Woodblock print of a willow-lined river at dusk with boats and two hooded women on a wooden landing.

Oumayagashi, from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Grey ink and wash landscape with a villa, arched ruin, canal, trees and a kneeling hunter in the foreground.

Hunter with Dog, Other Figures in Landscape with Villa, Canal, Pyramid

Gaspar van Wittel, n.d.

Hand-colored street scene of The Strand in London, with a white church tower, carriages, pedestrians and shopfronts.

The Strand, plate 21 from Original Views of London as It Is

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842

Pencil and watercolor landscape of a canal with moored boats, a wheelbarrow pusher, bare trees, and a distant city skyline.

Amsterdam Skyline Viewed from the West

Piet Mondrian, c. 1899

Pencil-style lithograph of a stone bridge over a river in Rouen, with chimneys, boats and a hillside town behind.

Bridge in Rouen: Pont Corneille

Camille Pissarro, 1896

Hand-colored print of Hyde Park Corner with columned buildings, carriages, an omnibus, and crowds of pedestrians.

Hyde Park Corner, plate fifteen from Original Views of London as It Is

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842

Edo-period woodblock print of a couple in a room overlooking a lotus pond and riverside houses, with poem cartouche.

The Evening Mistress at Ueno (Ueno no bansho), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769

Grey wash drawing of a garden with an arched bridge, columned portico, tall poplar and stone steps.

View of the Park at Versailles: Arched Bridge with Columned Approaches

Pierre Antoine Mongin, n.d.

Hand-colored 1842 print of a London street with a colonnaded building, pedestrians, carriages, and a church spire in the dist

Board of Trade, Whitehall, from Downing Street, plate eight from Original Views of London as It Is

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842

Woodblock print of a moat, castle walls, red gate, kites and Mount Fuji by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857.

Hibiya and Soto-Sakurada from Yamashita-cho (Yamashita-cho Hibiya Soto-Sakurada), from the series "One Hundred Famous…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Woodblock print of three women on a bridge in kimono, looking over a river with boats and a crowd on the bank.

View from Azuma Bridge, from the series "Ten Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan jikkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1783

Hand-colored street view of St. James Palace gatehouse with clock tower, sentry, and pedestrians in 1840s dress.

St. James Palace, plate ten from Original Views of London as It Is

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842

Etching of figures in bonnets and a top hat behind a stone parapet, with horizontal hatched sky and a river below.

The Parapet of the Bridge, plate 5 from Le Fleuve

Édouard Manet, 1874

Etching of a stone arch bridge over a river at Rouen, with houses on the far bank, a hill behind, and two figures on the near

The Stone Bridge at Rouen

Camille Pissarro, 1887

Woodblock print of two women in kimono by a wooden bridge, with a boatman, red boat and warehouses along a canal.

Nihon Bridge (Nihonbashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations [of the Tokaido] (Gojusan tsugi)," also known as the…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1852

Etching of a man in a hat by a river, seen through a bridge arch toward a city skyline with a church spire.

The Arch of the Bridge, plate 6 from Le Fleuve

Édouard Manet, 1874

Etching of a dirt street beside a stone wall, with farmhouses, trees, and a dark figure resting on the road.

A Street

Giovanni Fattori, c. 1888

Japanese woodblock title page with a central fan, plum blossoms, calligraphy panels and a red vertical title banner.

Title page and list of contents for "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1858/59