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Statuette of a Lion (380–246 BCE; Cleveland 1920.2001)

Statuette of a Lion (380–246 BCE): Art, History and Details

Statuette of a Lion at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 380–246 BCE, limestone. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Domestic Shrine (c. 1479–1425 BCE; Cleveland 1920.2002)

Domestic Shrine (c. 1479–1425 BCE): Art, History and Details

Domestic Shrine at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1479–1425 BCE, limestone, originally painted. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Seated Scribe of Medthu (c. 1479–1425 BCE; Cleveland 1920.2004)

Seated Scribe of Medthu (c. 1479–1425 BCE): Art, History and Details

Seated Scribe of Medthu at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1479–1425 BCE, limestone, originally painted. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Black-Topped Beaker (4500–3000 BCE; Cleveland 1920.2005)

Black-Topped Beaker (4500–3000 BCE): Art, History and Details

Black-Topped Beaker at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 4500–3000 BCE, Nile silt pottery. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

White Cross-Lined Bowl with Turtle and Sun (c. 4000–3400 BCE; Cleveland 1920.2008)

White Cross-Lined Bowl with Turtle and Sun (c. 4000–3400 BCE): Art, History and Details

White Cross-Lined Bowl with Turtle and Sun at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 4000–3400 BCE, Nile silt pottery. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Portrait of a Woman (Judith Colman Bulfinch?) (c. 1734; Cleveland 1920.3919)

Portrait of a Woman (Judith Colman Bulfinch?) (c. 1734): Art, History and Details

Portrait of a Woman (Judith Colman Bulfinch?) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1734, oil on canvas. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Immortality (1886): Art, History and Details

Immortality at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1886, lithograph. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

To Robert Schumann (1894; Cleveland 1921.67)

To Robert Schumann (1894): Art, History and Details

To Robert Schumann at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1894, lithograph. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Stained Glass Roundel with an Angel Holding a Scroll (c. 1425–50; Cleveland 1921.105)

Stained Glass Roundel with an Angel Holding a Scroll (c. 1425–50): Art, History and Details

Stained Glass Roundel with an Angel Holding a Scroll at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1425–50, Stained glass (pot-metal and painted grisaille). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Saint Catherine with a Kneeling Male Donor (1400s; Cleveland 1921.106)

Saint Catherine with a Kneeling Male Donor (1400s): Art, History and Details

Saint Catherine with a Kneeling Male Donor at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1400s, pot metal, white glass with silver stain. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Gradual (c. 1520): Art, History and Details

Gradual at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1520, Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; wood binding. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Cover with Border of Abstract Floral Motifs (1700s; Cleveland 1921.84)

Cover with Border of Abstract Floral Motifs (1700s): Art, History and Details

Cover with Border of Abstract Floral Motifs at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1700s, Rose silk (est.) center: plain weave Silk (est.) embroidery on unidentified ground fiber border: needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one directi

Border with Crowned and Double-Headed Birds (1700s–1800s; Cleveland 1921.85)

Border with Crowned and Double-Headed Birds (1700s–1800s): Art, History and Details

Border with Crowned and Double-Headed Birds at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1700s–1800s, Needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction) and bobbin lace (tape lace) edging; bleached linen (est.). Explore the work's con

Gradual (c. 1520; Cleveland 1921.140.i.b)

Gradual (c. 1520): Art, History and Details

Gradual at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1520, Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; wood binding. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Egham (1859): Art, History and Details

Egham at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1859, etching and drypoint. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Head of an Oriental (1600s; Cleveland 1921.173)

Head of an Oriental (1600s): Art, History and Details

Head of an Oriental at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1600s, etching. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Architectural Brick with Dancer in Relief (before 870; Cleveland 1921.263)

Architectural Brick with Dancer in Relief (before 870): Art, History and Details

Architectural Brick with Dancer in Relief at the Cleveland Museum of Art: before 870, molded terracotta with slip coating. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe Suetake, Onoe Matsusuke I as Usui Sadamitsu, and Nakamura Nakazo I as Watanabe no Tsuna in “The Four Heavenly Kings Costumed as the Night Watch” (1781): Art, History and

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe Suetake, Onoe Matsusuke I as Usui Sadamitsu, and Nakamura Nakazo I as Watanabe no Tsuna in “The Four Heavenly Kings Costumed as the Night Watch” at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1781, triptych of color woodbloc

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe no Suetake (1781; Cleveland 1921.314.a)

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe no Suetake (1781): Art, History and Details

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe no Suetake at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1781, One of a triptych of color woodblock prints. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Onoe Matsusuke as Usui Sadamitsu (1781; Cleveland 1921.314.b)

Onoe Matsusuke as Usui Sadamitsu (1781): Art, History and Details

Onoe Matsusuke as Usui Sadamitsu at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1781, One of a triptych of color woodblock prints. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Nakamura Nakazo I as Watanabe no Tsuna (1781; Cleveland 1921.314.c)

Nakamura Nakazo I as Watanabe no Tsuna (1781): Art, History and Details

Nakamura Nakazo I as Watanabe no Tsuna at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1781, One of a triptych of color woodblock prints. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1857; Cleveland 1921.318)

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1857): Art, History and Details

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1857, color woodblock print. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Woman by a Plum Tree Matched with the Wisteria Maiden (from a series of women compared to figures from Otsu paintings) (c. early 1830s; Cleveland 1921.319)

Woman by a Plum Tree Matched with the Wisteria Maiden (from a series of women compared to figures from Otsu paintings) (c. early 1830s): Art, History and Details

Woman by a Plum Tree Matched with the Wisteria Maiden (from a series of women compared to figures from Otsu paintings) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. early 1830s, color woodblock print (surimono). Explore the work's context, creator att

Furuichi Dance at the Hisagataya (mid 1820s; Cleveland 1921.332)

Furuichi Dance at the Hisagataya (mid 1820s): Art, History and Details

Furuichi Dance at the Hisagataya at the Cleveland Museum of Art: mid 1820s, second of a pentaptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Ichikawa Ebizo III as Yanone Goro in Nenriki arahitogami (1758; Cleveland 1921.339)

Ichikawa Ebizo III as Yanone Goro in Nenriki arahitogami (1758): Art, History and Details

Ichikawa Ebizo III as Yanone Goro in Nenriki arahitogami at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1758, color woodblock print. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Love at the Brothel Gate (late 1760s; Cleveland 1921.349)

Love at the Brothel Gate (late 1760s): Art, History and Details

Love at the Brothel Gate at the Cleveland Museum of Art: late 1760s, color woodblock print. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty (late 1790s): Art, History and Details

Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty at the Cleveland Museum of Art: late 1790s, color woodblock print. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Chushingura: Act X of The Storehouse of Loyalty (late 1790s): Art, History and Details

Chushingura: Act X of The Storehouse of Loyalty at the Cleveland Museum of Art: late 1790s, color woodblock print. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing (mid- or late 1790s; Cleveland 1921.360)

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing (mid- or late 1790s): Art, History and Details

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing at the Cleveland Museum of Art: mid- or late 1790s, Triptych of woodblock prints, ink and color on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing (mid- or late 1790s; Cleveland 1921.360.a)

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing (mid- or late 1790s): Art, History and Details

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing at the Cleveland Museum of Art: mid- or late 1790s, One of a triptych of woodblock prints. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing (mid- or late 1790s; Cleveland 1921.360.b)

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing (mid- or late 1790s): Art, History and Details

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing at the Cleveland Museum of Art: mid- or late 1790s, One of a triptych of woodblock prints. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing (mid- or late 1790s; Cleveland 1921.360.c)

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing (mid- or late 1790s): Art, History and Details

Courtesans of the Ōgiya on a Spring Outing at the Cleveland Museum of Art: mid- or late 1790s, One of a triptych of woodblock prints. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

The Courtesan Takihime and Attendants (from the series New Patterns of Young Greens) (1795; Cleveland 1921.363)

The Courtesan Takihime and Attendants (from the series New Patterns of Young Greens) (1795): Art, History and Details

The Courtesan Takihime and Attendants (from the series New Patterns of Young Greens) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1795, color woodblock print. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru (c. 1796–97; Cleveland 1921.364)

Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru (c. 1796–97): Art, History and Details

Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1796–97, Pentaptych of woodblock prints. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.