Escher Artwork Gallery

For an alphabetical listing, go to Escher Artwork Index

This page is a chronological gallery of Escher's artwork. The title of each artwork links to a page with a thumbnail image, name, date, and other print information. In addtion, each artwork page lists its location in various printed Escher books as well as availability on the web.

Other galleries of Escher's artwork on the web include:

Regular Division of the Plane Drawings

Over the course of his career, Escher filled five folio notebooks with sketches of periodic tessellations. These were not intended for public consumption, but instead sources of ideas and design patterns he would use in creating his finished graphic works.

Escher numbered his sketches, from 1 to 137. Most of these sketches are available at Regular Division of the Plane Drawings

1910's

Railway Bridge across the Rhine at Oosterbeek (1917)
Self Portrait (1919)

1920's

Self-Portrait in a Chair (1920)
[Rabbits] (1920)
Paradise (1920)
Plane-filling Motif with Human Figures (1920 or 1921)
Plane-filling Motif with Human Figures (1920 or 1921)
Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror (Ink) (Unknown (c. 1921))
Whore's Superstition (1921)
Ghost (1921)
Never think before you act (1921)
Madonna (1921)
La Pensee (1921)
Love (1921)
Convention (1921)
(?) (1921)
Weathercock (1921)
Theosophy (1921)
Odor (1921)
Portrait of S.A. Escher-Gleichman (1921?)
The Sphere (1921)
The Scapegoat (1921)
Fulfilment? (1921)
Beautiful (1921)
Eight Heads (1922)
Wall mosaic in the Alhambra (1922)
St. Francis (Preaching to the Birds) (1922)
Self Portrait (1923)
Montecelio (1924)
Designs from Ravello (Possibly 1924-1933)
Untitled (Detail) (c. 1926)
Untitled (c. 1926)
Untitled (c. 1926)
Procession in Crypt (1927)
Citadel of Calvi, Corsica (1928)
Castle in the Air (1928)
Tower of Babel (1928)
The Drowned Cathedral (La Cathédrale engloutie) (1929)
Self-Portrait (1929)

1930's

Castrovalva (1930)
The Bridge (1930)
Farmhouse, Ravello (1931)
Randazzo and Mount Etna, Sicily (1933)
Still Life with Mirror (1934)
Trademark (Welder) (1935)
Hand with Reflecting Sphere (Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror) (1935)
Inside St. Peter's (1935)
Portrait of G.A. Escher (1935)
Dream (Mantis Religiosa) (1935)
La Mezquita, Córdoba (1936)
Snow (1936)
Still Life and Street (1937)
Development I (1937)
Metamorphosis I (1937)
Sky and Water II (1938)
Cycle (1938)
Sky and Water I (1938)
Day and Night (1938)
Delft: (Interior) Nieuwe Kerk (1939)
Delft: Oostpoort (1939)
Delft: Voldersgracht (1939)
Development II (second version) (1939)
Metamorphosis II (1939-40)
Delft: Nieuwe Kerk (1939)
Delft: Grote Markt (Marketplace from the Tower of the Nieuwe Kerk) (1939)
Development II (first version) (1939)

1940's

Sphere (1940)
Plane Filling Motif with Reptiles (1941)
Regular division of the plane by similar figures of which size and contents rhythmically diminish in size, receding toward the center (1941?)
Verbum (Earth, Sky and Water) (1942)
Sphere with Angles and Devils (1942)
Sphere with Eight Grotesques (1943)
Ant (1943)
Reptiles (1943)
Encounter (1944)
Balcony (1945)
Three Spheres I (1945)
Doric Columns (1945)
Eye (1946)
Three Spheres II (1946)
Horseman (1946)
Gallery (1946)
Magic Mirror (1946)
New Year's Greeting Card (Well) (1947)
Up and Down (1947)
Other World (1947)
Crystal (1947)
Study for Stars (1948)
Stars (1948)
Sun and Moon (1948)
Drawing Hands (1948)
Double Planetoid (1949)
Sphere with Reptiles (1949)

1950's

Order and Chaos (1950)
Butterflies (c.1950)
Butterflies (1950)
Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror (1950)
Rippled Surface (1950)
Mosaic (1951)
Predestination (1951)
Curl-up (1951)
House of Stairs (1951)
Puddle (1952)
Cubic Space Division (1952)
Gravitation (1952)
Dragon (1952)
Studies for an Ivory Ball (1952)
Concentric Rinds (1953)
Trees and Animals (1953)
Relativity (1953)
Three Intersecting Planes (1954)
Tetrahedral Planetoid (1954)
Three Worlds (1955)
Liberation (1955)
Order and Chaos II (1955)
Fish, vignette (1955)
Convex and Concave (1955)
Depth (1955)
Print Gallery (1956)
New Year's Greeting Card (1956)
Bond of Union (1956)
Fish, vignette (1956)
Smaller and Smaller (1956)
Regelmatige Vlakverdeling, Plate I (1957)
Regelmatige Vlakverdeling, Plate III (1957)
Mosaic II (1957)
Whirlpools (1957)
Cube with Magic Ribbons (1957)
Regelmatige Vlakverdeling, Plate VI (1957)
Carved Polyhedron (compound of five tetrahedra) with Flowers (1958)
Path of Life II (1958)
Sphere Spirals (1958)
Design for the aula of the funeral service building at the Third Public Cemetary, [[wikipedia:Utrecht_%28city%29 (1958)
Sphere Surface with Fish (1958)
Man with Cuboid (1958)
Path of Life I (1958)
Belvedere (1958)
Circle Limit I (1958)
Amazing Images (1959)
Flatworms (1959)
Division (1959)
Circle Limit II (1959)
Fish and Scales (1959)
Circle Limit III (1959)