Antique Print of the Chief Temple in Hakodate in Japan, 1856

Antique print titled ‘View of Hakodadi from Snow Peak’. View of Hakodate, a city and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. This print origin...

Antique print titled ‘Lew Chew'. Lithograph of the Ryukyu Islands, from about 1829 until the mid-20th century, the islands' English name was spelled Luchu, Loochoo, or Lewchew. The R...

Antique print titled 'Mariners Temple at Simoda‘. View of the mariners temple in Shimoda, Japan. This print originates from 'Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to th...

Antique print titled 'Japanese Soldiers at Yukuhama‘. Lithograph of Japanese soldiers in Yokohama, Japan. This print originates from 'Narrative of the...

Antique print titled ‘Hakodadi from Telegraph Hill’. View of Hakodate, a city and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. This print originates from 'Narrative of the ...

Antique print titled ‘View of Uraga, Yedo Bay'. View of Uraga, Japan. This print originates from 'Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, per...

Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints by Chelsea Foxwell. University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum, 2012. First edition softcover cata...

Lithographic print of the diamond rock battle, the main port of the island of Martinique, taken from the book Historical Gallery of Versailles 112. Chacoane is the engraver. Original...

Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints by Chelsea Foxwell. University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum, 2012. 1st Ed softcover catalog. Wh...

Panorama of the seat of war. Bird's-eye View of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. This third state of this fascinating bird's eye view of the northernmost p...

Cricket print of Joseph Guy of Nottingham. A framed, tinted and hand colored lithographic portrait of the All- England cricketer Joseph Guy (1813 - 187...

This engraved print shows a view of the United States Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C. The print depicts the neoclassical building from the northeast orientation, with a bustling street scene in front. The steel engraving is a proof printing, drawn and engraved by Henry Sartain and published in 1858. Plans began in May 1854 to build a new cast-iron dome for the United States Capitol. The then-architect of the Capitol Thomas Walter and his team were sold on the aesthetics of a new dome, as well as the utility of a fire-proof one. A year later, on March 3, 1855, President Franklin Pierce...