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American

12,027 works

Wood engraving of three boys in tall grass watching a loaded stagecoach travel a road toward distant hills, on a magazine cov

On the Road to Lake George (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)

Winslow Homer, July 24, 1869

Engraving of fashionable women with parasols and a man in a top hat on a beach, with bathers in the surf.

The Beach at Long Branch (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. II)

Winslow Homer, August 21, 1869

Engraving of a woman with a fishing rod and a man in a military cap in a wicker carriage facing the sea at Newport.

Our Watering Places - The Empty Sleeve at Newport (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IX)

Winslow Homer, August 26, 1865

Wood engraving of couples dancing at a crowded Parisian ball, with top-hatted men and women in period dress watching.

A Parisian Ball - Dancing at the Mabille, Paris (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XI)

Winslow Homer, November 23, 1867

Engraving of a couple dancing at a Parisian casino ball, with a crowd of men in top hats watching from behind.

A Parisian Ball - Dancing at the Casino (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XI)

Winslow Homer, November 23, 1867

Engraving of art students and copyists at easels in a vaulted gallery with framed paintings and visitors walking.

Art-Students and Copyists in the Louvre Gallery, Paris (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XII)

Winslow Homer, January 11, 1868

Colored print of a seated soldier in a cap smoking a clay pipe, with army tents in the background.

Life in Camp, Part 1: Building Castles; Hard Tack; Upset His Coffee; Water Call; A Shell is Coming; Riding on a Rail;…

Winslow Homer, 1864

Colored print of a man in a wide-brimmed hat smoking a pipe while seated on a cannon, with smoke and distant figures behind.

Life in Camp, Part 2: In the Trenches; Good Bye; Fording; Extra Ration; The Field Barber; The Girl He Left Behind Him…

Winslow Homer, 1864

Colored lithograph of many figures in period dress skating on a frozen park pond, with a fallen skater and a Dangerous sign.

Skating in Central Park, New York

Winslow Homer, 1861

Etching of four women with baskets walking along a rocky cliff edge, faces turned upward under a pale sky.

A Voice from the Cliffs

Winslow Homer, 1888

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

William Merritt Chase, 1880

Lithograph portrait of a seated man in a dark frock coat and white cravat, one gloved hand resting on a hat.

Granville Sharpe Pattison

Richard James Lane, 1820

Engraved print of five oval portraits of men with an eagle and shield above and the Capitol building below.

Andrew Johnson, Salmon P. Chase, William Henry Seward, Edwin M. Stanton and Gideon Welles

Andrew Johnson, 1860

Hand-colored sheet music cover of The Veto Galop showing a man on a rearing horse holding a veto scroll above fallen figures

The Veto Galop

Andrew Johnson, 1860

Watercolor of a silvery branch of Death Valley sage with small purple flowers on a cream background.

Death Valley Sage (Salvia funerea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a double-breasted coat, with the name Jenkins and a script verse below.

The Art of Writing by John Jenkins, Frontispiece

Peter Maverick, 1813

Poster showing a soldier before a black church silhouette, with text urging support for troops and a khaki Testament for sold

Put the church behind Pershing To win this war the boys at the front need strength of spirit : a khaki testament for…

Unknown artist, 1918

Etching of two women seated on a stool mending a fishing net, with a sailing ship on the calm sea behind them.

Net Menders

Winslow Homer, n.d.

Symmetrical folk-art arrangement of many animals, including giraffes, elephants, lions and peacocks, in rows on a beige groun

Cutout of Animals

Unknown artist, second quarter 19th century

Poster showing a worker with an ice hook over cut ice blocks, with workers and an ice house behind, promoting the ice harvest

Help in the harvest ice is needed to save food for the starving people of the world /

Unknown artist, 1910

Engraved page from Harper's Weekly, 1861, showing seven portraits of men of the seceding Mississippi delegation in Congress.

The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress

Winslow Homer, 1861

Engraved newspaper page with eleven overlapping male portraits of the Georgia congressional delegation under the Harper's Wee

The Seceding Georgia Delegation in Congress

Winslow Homer, 1861

Engraved trade card with rococo cartouche, cherub head and two putti flanking text for Felix Bobrowski, frame maker.

[Anons firmowy] [Inc.:] Felix Bobrowski fabrykant ram złoconych rozmaitych wyrobów pozłotniczych snycerskich [...]

Adolf Fryderyk Dietrich, 1850

Hand-colored caricature of exaggerated whiskered men in a street scene, one in a bearskin hat, before a shop window.

The Rival Whiskers

Theodore Lane, n.d.

Pencil sketch of children in sun hats walking along a wooden fence rail with tall grasses behind them.

Children Sitting on a Fence

Winslow Homer, 1874

Pencil sketch of a young child in a dark dress and white bonnet seated on a sofa, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Child Seated on a Sofa

Mary Cassatt, c. 1883

Watercolor of a Venetian canal with an arched stone bridge, a tall campanile, a moored gondola, and rippling reflections.

A Bridge and Campanile, Venice

John Singer Sargent, 1902/1904

Watercolor of a narrow village street with pale houses, red-tiled roofs, a blue sky, and two small figures near an archway.

Camprodón, Spain

John Singer Sargent, c. 1892

Watercolor of gondola moorings and a sunlit Venetian palazzo along the Grand Canal, with a gondola and mooring poles.

Gondola Moorings on the Grand Canal

John Singer Sargent, 1904/1907

Watercolor of a Venetian building corner with columns, an arched doorway, a balustrade and statues against a pale blue sky.

A Corner of the Library in Venice

John Singer Sargent, 1904/1907

Engraved oval portrait of a cardinal in red vestments with a cross pendant, beneath a coat of arms and inscription.

Ioannes Aleksander S.R.E. Presbyter Cardinalis Lipski [...]

Jan Fryderyk Mylius, 1736

Knitting in the Library

Mary Cassatt, 1876