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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Hand-colored caricature of a dancing Napoleon between two pillars, with a violinist, a rooster, and ships at sea.

Napoleon Dance in Holland

Charles Williams, 1814

Hand-colored 1816 print of a butcher flirting with a fashionable woman before a shop hung with meat.

A Neck of Lamb, a Round of Beef, and a Scrag of Mutton

Charles Williams, 1816

Caricature of John Bull viewing a satirical birthday feast of labelled dishes prepared by a cook in an apron, 1802.

John Bull Viewing Billy's Preparations for his Birth-day

Charles Williams, 1802

Hand-coloured caricature of two men dining at a table while a third man peers through a window at right.

The Honors of the Sitting! A Cabinet Picture

Charles Williams, 1805

Hand-colored caricature of an English bulldog holding a Malta bone while a monkey in French military uniform reaches for it.

The Bone of Contention or the English Bull Dog and the Corsican Monkey

Charles Williams, 1803

Hand-colored caricature of a small plumed Napoleon figure on a map meeting a stout John Bull figure with an oak stick.

Boney Bothered or an Unexpected Meeting

Charles Williams, 1808

Hand-colored print of animated carpenter tools and a green watering can with flowers walking on blade legs.

Implements Animated, Pl. 1, Dedicated to the Carpenters and Gardeners of Great Britain

Charles Williams, 1811

Hand-coloured print of household tools personified as two figures, a broom-headed mop figure and a pan-and-fork figure, on a

Implements Animated, Pl. 2, Dedicated to the Housemaids and Cooks of the United Kingdoms

Charles Williams, 1811

Engraved night seascape of fishermen with a sailboat and moonlight, and figures gathered around a campfire on a rocky shore.

The Fishermen's Canteen

Jeanne Deny, 1770

Engraved landscape of a fisherman wading in a stream with cattle, goats and sheep, beside rocky cliffs and a waterfall.

The Poor Fisherman

Jeanne Deny, 1770

Watercolor drawing of three young women resting among classical ruins with an obelisk and broken stone fragments under a blue

Three Young Girls by Ruins

Hubert Robert, ca. 1790

Pen and ink drawing of the Madonna and Child with a mitred bishop and a standing youth in a cloak, on aged paper.

Madonna and Child with Saints Martin and Maurice (?)

Gaudenzio Ferrari, ca. 1530

Pen and brown wash drawing of a winged figure in billowing drapery flying through clouds with cherubs above.

Angels in the Sky

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, before 1762

Pen and watercolor drawing of a crowded auction room with an auctioneer on a rostrum and framed paintings covering the walls.

Christie's Auction Room, Pall Mall

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1808-10

Stippled pen drawing of a dining room with two women and a seated older man at a table beside a potted plant.

The Dining Room

Paul Signac, 1886

Pen and brown ink drawing of mourners carrying a body toward a stone tomb, framed by a double black border.

The Entombment

Nicolas Poussin, 1656

Hand-colored caricature of fashionable Regency dandies, a woman in a white gown, and a cobbler working in a room.

The Supreme Bon Ton, No. 3

Charles Williams, 1801

Three-panel hand-colored caricature of a man on a donkey, a winged figure, and a kneeling woman at a house door.

A Paradice [sic] for Fools-A Nocturnal Trip-or-The Disciple of Johanna benighted-vided Scourge No. XXXVI, page 510

Charles Williams, 1814

Hand-colored 1814 caricature of potted plants and figures in a greenhouse, with speech scrolls and a sunflower with a face.

Imperial Botany-or a Peep at Josephine's Collection of Engilsh Exoticks, vide the Champion Jany 30, 1814

Charles Williams, 1814

Engraving of a scolding wife pulling a husband by the arm beside a tree, with hens, a rooster and a pig in a yard.

The Hen-Pecked Husband

Pieter van der Borcht

Japanese woodblock diptych of two dancing men in patterned coats and straw hats against a striped background.

Two Men Wearing Brown Coats, also Straw Hats with Brown Bows

Yashima Gakutei

Woodblock print of a patterned book wrapped in red cord beside a brush and inkstone, with vertical calligraphy above.

Books

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, 19th century

Triptych Japanese print of women in kimono gathered in interior rooms with sliding screens, a crane, pine and flowering plum

Honoring the Three Gods of Poetry: Women Composing Poems

Chobunsai Eishi, ca. 1792

Woodblock print of a woman in a floral kimono holding a wine-pot beside a New Year pine decoration and a small dog.

Young Woman Carrying a Wine-Pot for the New Year Ceremony

Katsukawa Shuntei, ca. 1815

Woodblock print of a seated courtesan with ornate hairpins holding a round fan beside a writing desk and books.

The Oiran Hinazuru of Chōjiya Holding a Round Fan (Uchiwa)

Chobunsai Eishi, ca. 1794

Japanese print of a court lady in a patterned robe on a veranda beside a bare tree in snow.

Court Lady Looking at a Blooming Cherry-Tree

Yashima Gakutei, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of a court lady with a pink fan on a staircase beside a bare cherry tree.

Court Lady with a Fan - a Cherry-Tree in Bloom

Yashima Gakutei, 19th century

Woodblock print of a seated courtesan in a patterned kimono reading a letter, with calligraphy and flowers beside her.

The Oiran Komurasaki of Kadotamaya Reading a Letter

Chobunsai Eishi, ca. 1794

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of women in kimono on an ornate boat, with a phoenix at left and bamboo at right.

The Treasure Boat

Chobunsai Eishi, ca. 1795

Triptych woodblock print of women playing samisen and a man in dark kimono under red lanterns and wisteria.

A Parody of Yuranosuke in the Pleasure Quarters

Chobunsai Eishi, ca. 1797

Woodblock print of two women in an interior, one reaching for a green curtain, the other holding a fan beside a lattice scree

A Yoshiwara Analogue of the Story of Koko (Huang Xiang) one of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety

Chōkyōsai Eiri, ca. 1791

Woodblock print of a courtier with a brush and two court ladies in kimono, with a poem in cloud cartouches above.

Courtier and Two Ladies of the Court, with a Poem by Mibu no Tadamine

Rekisentei Eiri, ca. 1791

Three women in kimono stand by rippling water among yellow flowers in a Japanese woodblock print.

Mountain Roses of Ide (Ide no Yamabuki), from the series A Parodic Six Jewel Rivers (Yatsushi Mu-Tamagawa)

Rekisentei Eiri, ca. 1795

Bust Portrait of a Man with a Beard

Gilles Antoine Demarteau, 1776

Woodblock print of men and women dining on a tea-house veranda above a river, with lanterns, pines, and boats.

Two Young Men and Several Women Dining at a Tea-house on the Bank of the Sumida River

Kubo Shunman, ca. 1788

Woodblock print of a standing man in a cream kimono and a kneeling woman in an orange floral robe, with a sword on the floor.

Rikiya and Konami, from the series A Program with Music about Loving Couples (Ongyoku hiyoku no bangumi)

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1798

Woodblock print of a seated woman holding a hand mirror, with shadows cast on a lattice shoji screen behind her.

Shadows on the Shoji

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s

Woodblock print of an older woman combing long hair while a child clambers over her shoulder, in pink and cream tones.

Yamauba Combing Her Hair with Kintarō

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1801

Woodblock print of a long-haired woman playing with a laughing red-faced child wrapped in a patterned garment.

Yamauba Playing with Kintarō

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1795

Woodblock print of a wild-haired woman tying the topknot of a boy who sticks out his tongue.

Yamauba Tying Kintarō’s Topknot

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1795

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a red and grey plum-patterned kimono with arms raised beside a black stage prop.

Portrait of Sanjō Kantarō in the Female Role of Yaoya Oshichi in the Play "Fuji no Takane" ("The High Peak of Mount F…

Torii Kiyomasu II, ca. 1730-40

Japanese woodblock print of a kneeling woman with gold hairpins beside a rolled paper, with a basket and maple branch above.

"Hanazuma of Hyōgoya, Kenbishi of Sakagami” from the series The Peers of Saké Likened to Select Denizens of Six House…

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1794

Woodblock print of two women in kimono beside a birdcage and screen, one holding a hand mirror, with calligraphy above.

Two Ladies

Suzuki Harunobu, 1764-72

Japanese woodblock print of two women, one holding a black lacquered mirror and one kneeling with a lacquer tray.

Two Ladies, Each with a Portion of a Lacquered Mirror

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s

Woman in floral kimono tends a crawling baby while another woman gazes into a mirror beside a black vanity box.

Mother and Child

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1793

Woodblock print of a woman bending over a stone basin where a child sleeps, with a dog and leafy plants nearby.

Mother and Child

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1800

Woodblock print of a woman poling a boat with a reclining bearded Daruma figure, reeds and water behind them.

Daruma in a Boat with an Attendant

Suzuki Harunobu, late 1760s

Ukiyo-e print of two women beside a black lacquer box, one holding a fan with a caricatured face.

Fan Vendor

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1797

Woodblock print of a woman before a mirror with two girls playing nearby, one blindfolded, in patterned kimono.

Kiyomizu Komachi, from the series Futabagusa nana Komachi

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman tending a brazier while a standing man in a striped robe watches beside a screen.

The Seventh Hour of the Night

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1800

Japanese woodblock print of a bowing young man, two women beside a shoji screen, and a framed inset scene with a samurai.

A Young Man at the Side of a House

Kitagawa Utamaro

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with a net bag beside a kneeling child, with a samurai scene inset in the upper left.

A Woman Snatching a Bag of Sweetmeats from Her MotHer

Kitagawa Utamaro

Woodblock print of two women in kimono, one playing a shamisen, with a parasol, a cat, and a mountain painting behind them.

Two Tori-oi, or Itinerant Women Musicians of the Eta Class

Kitagawa Utamaro

Woodblock print of two women on a riverbank with a parasol, staff, mountains, a pagoda and a waterfall behind them.

The Kōya no Tamagawa, Province of Kii

Utamaro II, ca. 1806

Four women in kimono on a veranda overlooking a river and blossoming cherry trees, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Group of Women on the Engawa of a Country House, in the time of the Cherry Blossoming

Utamaro II, ca. 1806

Woodblock print of three women in patterned kimono, a courtesan and two attendants, with elaborate yellow hairpins.

The Oiran Hanaogi of Ogiya attended by Two Shinzo and Her Kamuro Yoshino

Utamaro II, ca. 1806

Triptych print of courtesans and attendants strolling a lantern-lit street of shops in Yoshiwara, in patterned kimono.

Courtesans Promenading on the Nakanochō in Yoshiwara

Utagawa Toyokuni, ca. 1795

Two-panel woodblock print of women in kimono walking past pine trees and a stone lantern at a temple grounds.

Horinouchi Myo-ho-ji Eho Mairi no Zu

Utagawa Toyohiro, ca. 1804

Woodblock print of women in kimono at a temple with a pine tree, red altar, and courtyard, split across two sheets.

Pilgrimage to Myōhōji in Horinouchi, Edo

Utagawa Toyohiro, ca. 1804

Woman in patterned kimono tying a curtain beside a hanging chrysanthemum vase and a narcissus arrangement, Japanese woodblock

A Woman Tying up a Curtain, a Flower Arrangement of Chrysanthemums in a Boat-shaped Hanging Vase, and Narcissus Arran…

Utagawa Toyohiro, ca. 1805

Woodblock print of white suisen narcissus in a flat green dish on a red stand, with calligraphy at top right.

Flower Arrangement of Suisen (Narcissus) in a Flat Green Dish

Utagawa Toyohiro

Black and white woodblock print of an old man with a staff, a fox near a lantern, straw bundles and a crescent moon.

Trapping the Fox

Utagawa Toyohiro, 1808

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji behind clouds, with a rider on a white horse beside a pine tree and porters on a road.

The Top of Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1800

Woodblock print of workers carving wooden ornaments by a river, with boats, a pine tree, and a lion sculpture.

Imadogawa

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1801-4