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Snow, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"
Katsukawa Shunchô
Color woodblock print; oban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Moon, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"
Katsukawa Shunchô
Color woodblock print; oban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hige no Ikyu, Nakamura Riko as Agemaki, and Ichikawa Ebizo as Agemaki's attendant in the play "Sukeroku Yukari no Edozakura" at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1784
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Munesada, Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Sumizome, and Nakamura Nakazo I as Sekibei, in the play "Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To," performed at the Kiri Theater in the eleventh month, 1784
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; oban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Third Princess and Her Kitten, from an untitled series of court ladies
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; oban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Sei Shonagon and Her Companion, from an untitled series of court ladies
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; oban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Ferry on the Rokugo River
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Summer Twilight on the Banks of the Sumida River
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right sheet: 1925.2657) · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Beauties Under a Maple Tree, from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right sheet: 1934.257) · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Murasaki Shikibu
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; oban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Mosquito Net, from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; oban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Sixth Month (Kazemachizuki), from the series "Fashionable Monthly Visits to Sacred Places in the Four Seasons (Furyu shiki no tsuki mode)"
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; chuban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Ninth Month, from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; oban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Treasured Admonitions to Young Women (Jijo hokun onna Imagawa)
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; chuban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Bando Hikosaburo III as Kichisaburo in the play "Junshoku Edo Murasaki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1779
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Sixth Month, Enjoying the Evening Cool in a Teahouse, from the series The Twelve Months in the Southern Quarter (Minami jūni kō)
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock prints; oban diptych · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Pleasure Boats below Azuma Bridge
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; oban triptych · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Entertainers of Nakazu, from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; oban diptych · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Fourth Month, from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock prints; oban diptych · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Summer Twilight on the Banks of the Sumida River
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock print; oban diptych · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Faith Overcoming Heresy (recto); Tracing after Faith Overcoming Heresy (verso)
Pietro Novelli
Pen and black ink, watercolor, and brush and gray wash, with traces of black chalk (recto), and graphite (verso), on ivory laid paper · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Entrance of the Academy of Architecture at the Louvre
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Brush and black ink and gray and colored wash, with black chalk and touches of pen and black ink, on off-white laid paper · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

La Bonne Mere (The Good Mother)
Nicolas Delaunay
Engraving on ivory laid paper · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

Vazen, kandelaars, grafstenen, sarcofagen, tripods, lampen en ornamenten ontworpen en gegraveerd door Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Francesco Piranesi
etching on paper · 1779
Rijksmuseum