Curatorial Movement Collection

Antique Cartography

80 Masterpieces Cataloged

Plate 49 from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago. View of the City from Jackson Park to Grant Park, Looking Towards the West. The proposed shore treatment as a park enclosing a waterway (or a series of lagoons) is shown, together with the enlarged yacht harbor, recreation piers, and a scheme for Grant Park.

Daniel Hudson Burnham, American, 1846-1912 Edward Herbert Bennett, American, born England, 1874-1954 Jules Guerin, delineator, American, 1866-1946, 1907

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The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret

Filippino Lippi (Italian, c. 1457–1504), c. 1488–93

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The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun, ca. 1660

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Night-Shining White

Han Gan, ca. 750

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Virgin and Child Enthroned

Bohemian Painter, ca. 1345–50

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Marie Antoinette in a Park

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, ca. 1780–81

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”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”

Musō Soseki, early to mid-14th century

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Poems from the Pavilion of True Meaning

Zhou Lianggong, datable to 1663 or later

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Tomb Chapel of Raemkai

Unknown Cartographer, ca. 2446–2389 BCE

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Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Unknown Cartographer, ca. 1944 B.C.

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Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Unknown Cartographer, late 11th–early 12th century

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"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Habiballah of Sava, ca. 1600

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Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

Unknown Cartographer, 12th–early 13th century

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"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, dated 741 AH/1341 CE

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Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin, 1891

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The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1846–67

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A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1656–57

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Self-Portrait

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1647

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The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir, ca. 1515

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Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

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Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, ca. 1665–72

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The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove, 1472–74

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An Allegory

Domenico Guidobono, 1710–20

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L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh, 1888–89

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The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David, 1787

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The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David, ca. 1510–15

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The Storm

Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1880

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The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), 1597

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The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur, 1852–55

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Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879

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Dwarf (one of a pair)

Villeroy, ca. 1740–45

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Adam and Eve with Charles I and Henrietta Maria

Unknown Cartographer, after 1634

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Dwarf (one of a pair)

Villeroy, ca. 1740–45

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Longcase clock

Thomas Dickenson, ca. 1807

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Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)

Jean Antoine Houdon, 1788

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Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial

Jan Jansen Bockeltz, ca. 1605–10

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Mingling of Clear and Muddy Water at the Junction of the Jing and Wei Rivers

Unknown Cartographer, 1736–95

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Mingling of Clear and Muddy Water at the Junction of the Jing and Wei Rivers

Unknown Cartographer, 1736–95

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The Map Maker

Unknown Cartographer, c. 1843–45

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Justice

Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99–1546), 1530–34

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