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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Etched ornament of a deer head, two dogs, a quiver of arrows, and Diana with a crescent moon at top, framed by ribbons.

A hunting trophy: a quiver, two arrows, two bows, a deer head, two dogs, two spears, and the head of Diana at top, fr…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1650-56

Etching of a girl lifting a rabbit toward a dog in a scrolling ornamental frame, with a second dog at her feet.

A young girl, seen from behind, lifting a rabbit into the air for a dog above to grasp, another dog at her feet, from…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1650-56

Etched vertical panel with an empty cartouche, two horse heads at top, and a cuirass with draped tassels below.

Vertical Panel with a Cartouche stacked on top of a Cuirass, from "Ornaments or Grotesques" (Ornamenti o Grottesche)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1650-56

Etching of a mounted knight with a lance freeing chained men as a fallen figure lies on the ground beside him.

Don Quixote Releases the Galley Slaves (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

William Hogarth, 1756 or after

Etching of a knight with lance on horseback confronting a fallen barber beside a donkey, with a rider and trees behind.

The Adventure of Mambrino's Helmet (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

William Hogarth, 1756 or after

Etching of turbaned horsemen and a figure with a raised sword facing a charging bull, with a fallen rider and horse in the fo

Plate 3 from " La Tauromaquia": The Moors settled in Spain, giving up the superstitions of the Koran, adopted this ar…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a mounted rider with a lance attacking a charging bull on open ground, with another horseman behind.

Plate 1 from "La Tauromaquia": The way in which the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the open country

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of an armored figure gripping a bull's horns while a wounded horse stands nearby in an arena.

Plate 9 from "La Tauromaquia": A Spanish knight kills the bull after having lost his horse

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a lance-wielding horseman facing a charging bull in a bullring, with spectators along the top edge.

Plate 22 from "La Tauromaquia": Manly courage of the celebrated Pajuelera in [the ring] at Zaragoza

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a mounted rider in plumed hat facing a charging bull in an arena, with spectators in the stands above.

Plate 13 of "La Tauromaquia": A Spanish mounted knight in the ring breaking short spears without the help of assistants

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull charging in a bullring, tossing horses and picadors while men scramble and spectators watch from the stands

Plate 32 from "La Tauromaquia": Two teams of picadors thrown one after the other by a single bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bullfight: a bull in an arena with a bullfighter holding banderillas, smoke burst, and mounted picadors behind.

Plate 31 of "La Tauromaquia": Banderillas with firecrackers

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a matador making a close pass as a bull charges in a bullring, with mounted riders behind.

Plate 29 of "La Tauromaquia": Pepe Illo making the pass of the 'recorte'

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull charging a horse in a bullring while a picador lances it, with a crowd in the stands behind the wall.

Plate 28 of "La Tauromaquia": The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a young boy in a plumed hat riding a rearing horse across a landscape under a cloudy sky.

Don Baltasar Carlos on horseback, after Velázquez

Francisco Goya, 1778

Engraved battle scene with armored soldiers and horses on a riverbank, a bridge at right, and angels in clouds above.

The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge, after Raphael

Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, ca. 1569

Etching of a crowded rustic tavern interior with a seated violin player, drinking companions, a dog and a large hearth.

The Violin Player Seated in the Inn

Cornelis Dusart, 1685

Etched title page with a coat of arms held by two lions, cherubs holding drapery, and the inscription Livre d'Oyseaux.

Title Page from "Livre d'Oyseaux" (Book of Birds)

Albert Flamen, 1655-60

Etching of a mounted rider and fallen soldier beneath a figure with a cross in the clouds, with soldiers behind.

The Conversion of Saul

H. Bem, ca. 1650-1725

Etching of a stone city gate with columns, a horse and cart in the foreground, and pedestrians on a cobbled street.

Lille: Porte de Donai

Ernst Oppler, 1916

Engraving of the infant Christ on a fountain with allegorical figures pouring water, framed by scripture text and small relig

The Infant Christ, from "Allegorical Scenes on the Life of Christ, from Christian and Profane Allegories"

Hendrick Goltzius

Engraving of Christ among a crowd of burdened figures in a landscape, framed by ornamental borders with Latin text.

Levamen Onostrorum, from "Allegories of the Christian Faith, from Christian and Profane Allegories"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1604

Hand-colored print of visitors in period dress admiring mounted knights and suits of armour in a long armoury hall.

The Horse Armoury in the Tower

Thomas Rowlandson, January 1, 1800

Engraved crowd scene with a gallows, soldiers with pikes, spectators on stands and street hawkers in the foreground.

The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn (Industry and Idleness, plate 11)

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved street scene of musicians and drummers in a wedding procession beside a shop doorway with onlookers and a dog.

The Industrious 'Prentice Out of his Time and Married to his Master's Daughter: Industry and Idleness, plate 6

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a sailor and a woman startled in a cluttered garret bedroom beside a fireplace and bed.

The Idle 'Prentice Returned from Sea and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute: Industry and Idleness, plate 7

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a master and apprentice at a desk beside a workshop of spinners, with a cat and dog in the foreground.

The Industrious 'Prentice a Favorite, and Entrusted by his Master: Industry and Idleness, plate 4

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of two apprentices at looms in a workshop, one idle beside a dog, with a well-dressed man and a book at right.

The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms: Industry and Idleness, plate 1

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Two circular etched compositions with framed vignettes of elephants, lions, monkeys, birds and hunters in landscapes.

Designs for Plates Taken from Oudry's Illustrations to La Fontaine's Fables

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, after 1755

Engraving of a reclining piper under a large oak beside a standing shepherd gesturing toward grazing cattle and sheep.

Mercury and Battus, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

Robert Willemsz de Baudous, after 1590