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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,820 works

Satirical lithograph of two dogs beside cotton bales, barrels of provisions, and a broken Washington bust, captioned Why Don'

Why Don't You Take It?

Currier & Ives, 1861-64

Engraving of a chained nude woman asleep beside a child and a sheep, with a fortified town in the background.

Der Welt Lauf (Sleeping Justice) (copy)

Barthel Beham, early 16th century

Engraving of a mounted standard bearer with a flag beside a foot soldier, with a small landscape and the date 1521.

Riding Standard Bearer and a Foot Soldier

Barthel Beham, early 16th century

Hand-colored print of a cook drooling over a pot while a servant carries plates to diners at a tavern table, with a black cat

A French Ordinary

Thomas Rowlandson, January 2, 1804

Hand-colored print of a tavern kitchen: a cook pours from a dish into a copper pot as a waiter passes diners and a black cat

A French Ordinary

Thomas Rowlandson, July 20, 1802

Engraving of Hercules in a lion skin driving cattle past women among fruit trees, with Italian verses below.

Hercules driving off the cattle of Geryon, at the right are the nymphs of Hesperides

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of Mars and Rhea Silvia with Apollo in a chariot above, a sleeping woman, and winged figures in a landscape.

Mars and Rhea Silvia: in the centre Mars holds a shield and sword, Rhea Silvia sleeping, Apollo in his chariot upper…

Giulio Bonasone, ca 1531-76

Engraving of a nude nymph reclining and nursing a horse, with a grazing horse, trees and rocky hills in the background.

Saturn in the guise of a horse being suckled by the nymph Philyra

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1513-76

Engraving of nude figures and an armored man leading a rearing horse through a garden, with a cupid and reclining figures.

Alexander and Roxana

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of Noah and his family leaving the Ark as lions, goats, deer and birds disperse across the landscape.

Noah leaving the Ark

Giulio Bonasone, 16th century

Watercolor of a coachman whose hat flies off as his four horses gallop a carriage down a dusty road, with a dog running along

A Four-in-Hand, or The Runaway Carriage

Thomas Rowlandson, 1791-93

Caricature engraving of a butcher with a knife in his teeth hoisting a carcass, while a kneeling man works in a shop.

A Butcher

Thomas Rowlandson, January 1, 1790

Pen and ink caricature of an elderly man embracing a woman on a sofa while she holds up a poodle, with handwritten verse belo

Special Pleading

Thomas Rowlandson, [March 1780]

Engraving of a youthful charioteer driving four galloping horses, with a Latin motto ribbon in the upper right corner.

Allegory in Honor of Louis XIV

Etching of studies of animal heads including lions, bulls, horses, a goat and a donkey, with the signature 'Franco fecit'.

Studies of Heads

Ercole Procaccini The Younger

Sepia drawing of a family in classical dress walking a path with children and a dog, with a seated reader in a vignette above

"The Return"

Johannes Riepenhausen, late 18th-19th century

Engraving of armored warriors and horses gathered before a canopy, with figures in helmets and draped cloaks.

Alexander welcoming Thalestris and the Amazons

Master FG, mid-16th century

Engraving of women spinning and weaving at looms in a classical colonnaded hall, with a standing woman at center.

Penelope standing in the centre by a large weaving table amongst her women spinning and weaving

Master FG, ca. 1540-50

Engraving of winged putti resting with a lion beneath a tree, with a distant village in the landscape.

Putti and Lions

Master FG, 1537

Etching of bearded Noah at the ark door with goats, sheep, dog, roosters and rabbits gathering below him.

Noah letting the animals into the ark

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1630

Hand-colored print of a fashionable four-in-hand coach with top-hatted man, feathered woman, and four chestnut horses in a pa

Coaching - Four in Hand - A Swell Turn-out

Currier & Ives, 1876

Hand-colored satirical lithograph of caricatured figures racing along a path past trees, a donkey, and a dog.

Grand Course au Clocher Académique, No. 5

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, 1844

Daumier caricature of exaggerated English travelers in a Boulogne railway station, with a pug, top hats and a seated couple,

The Boulogne Train Station. An English Excursion Train (La gare de chemin de fer de Boulogne. Un train de plaisir ang…

Honoré Daumier, March 24, 1852

Hand-colored satirical print: allegorical Justice with scales and sword, an ostrich, a Frenchman, and a surprised Englishman

The Ninth of Thermidor, or the English Surprise, to Honest People of All Countries (Le Neuf Thermidor ou la surprise…

Jean-Baptiste Louvion, fructidor l'an 3e, 1795

Engraved trophy with a central monogram, plumed helmet, shields with lion and rooster, books, laurel and a trident.

Trophy with Monogram Containing the Letters of LEONARDOS

Claude Mellan, 1651

Etching of a peasant woman with a basket beside a cow, a resting calf, a rooster on a fence and a stone trough.

Country Scene with a Peasant, Cow and Calf

Engraved surreal dream scene with giant eyes, a winged horse rider, a crucifix, scales of justice and a fish creature.

First Dream, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, 1820-47

Etching of shepherds with a cow, dogs and flock of sheep in a wooded landscape with distant hills.

Shepherds with their flock

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1650-55

Etching of a young herdsman on horseback playing a pipe, followed by sheep, a cow and a dog beneath trees.

Young herdsman on horseback

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1638

Etching of a melancholic seated woman with a skull, surrounded by an armillary sphere, urn, cat, dog and tools.

Melencholia

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-46