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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

506 works

Hand-coloured plate of an ornamental interior wall with panels, griffins, a console table and two pink chairs, 1801.

Interior Ornamented Wall, nos. CCCCLXIX-CCCCLXXIX, plate 70 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, 1801

Watercolor elevation of a decorated interior wall with a mirror above a fireplace, flanked by two painted panels with figures

Elevation of an interior wall decorated with a chimney piece surmouted by a mirror and flanked with painted panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of a barber shaving a seated man in a richly furnished room with a four-poster bed and open window.

The Barber (Le Barbier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1632-33

Hand-colored Gillray caricature of a farming couple showing off their daughter at a piano before seated neighbors in a parlor

Farmer Giles and His Wife Showing Off Their Daughter Betty to Their Neighbours on her Return from School

James Gillray, January 1, 1809

Pencil elevation drawing of a decorated interior wall with double doors, ornamental panels, and classical urn and putti friez

Elevation of an interior showing a paneled wall and double doors decorated in rococco sty.e

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Wood engraving of men playing cards, smoking pipes, and reclining in a Baxter Street club-house interior with Chinese lantern

The Chinese in New York - Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, March 7, 1874

Engraved cutaway view of a domed temple showing its coffered interior dome, arched niches, and exterior columns under a cloud

Exterior and interior section of a temple in Rome dedicated to Neptune

Giulio Bonasone, 1541

Hand-colored print of uniformed officers toasting with wine glasses at a table in a ship's cabin, with a servant at right.

A Snug Cabin, or Port Admiral

Thomas Rowlandson, June 21, 1808

Wood engraving of a schoolroom with a seated woman by a bell and a barefoot boy reading on a bench, with a chalkboard behind.

The Noon Recess (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, June 28, 1873

Engraved view of a vaulted prison interior with coffered ceiling, staircase, and groups of robed figures on balconies.

A View of a Prison of the Composition of Mr. Blondel done at Rome

Georges François Blondel, 1765

Hand-colored print of a crowded Great Hall with a statue in an arched niche, tall windows, and figures in period dress.

The Great Hall, Bank of England

Thomas Rowlandson, February 1, 1808

Wood engraving of a crowded parlor donation party with a minister, guests carrying pumpkins and barrels, and a leaping dog.

Our Minister's Donation Party (from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. I)

Winslow Homer, December 19, 1868

Circular lathe-work banknote motif with repeated stars and a missing wedge, printed on cream paper with an embossed seal.

Banknote motifs: circular lobed lathe work design, its interior composed of repeated stars, missing a pie shaped wedg…

Cyrus Durand, ca. 1824-42

Hand-colored print of artists and visitors painting in a pink-walled gallery with a skylight and framed works, 1808.

The British Institution, Pall Mall

Thomas Rowlandson, April 1, 1808

Wood engraving of women in bustled dresses waiting in a parlor by a window, one reading a letter, with a ship visible outside

Waiting for Calls on New Year's Day (from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. II)

Winslow Homer, January 2, 1869

Die-cut print of the numeral 3 filled with fine engraved lathe-work patterns and outlined in black, on a pale background.

Banknote motif: the number 3, its interior composed of lathe work edged with a band of black

Cyrus Durand, ca. 1824-42

Etching of a figures gathered at a breakfast table in an ornate room with a large mirror and a child playing with a doll.

Breakfast, from "Gazette des Beaux-Arts"

Émile Boilvin, 1897

Wood engraving of a crowded farmhouse interior with people peeling apples, a dancing woman, children, and a fireplace.

Fall Games - The Apple Bee (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)

Winslow Homer, November 26, 1859

Engraved circular ornament with wavy edge and lathe-work florets around a central star, printed on cream paper.

Banknote motif: a small six lobed ornament with a rope border, the interior adorned with lathe work florets

Cyrus Durand, ca. 1824-42

Engraving of a startled boy seated in a cluttered workshop beside a furnace, with glass flasks, a mortar and an arched window

Glass Blower

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1753

Lithograph of spaniel dogs resting in a dim kennel with straw, wooden troughs, and a whitewashed wall.

Interior of the Kennel, from "Hunting Scenes"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1829

Etching of a farm interior with barrels in an arched barn, a donkey, goats, chickens, and a seated family under a tree.

Interior of a Farm at Saint-Jean-de-Touslas

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1793

Etching of two seated figures in a window-lined room overlooking a harbor with masted ships and a standing woman at right.

Ramsgate

James Tissot, 1876

Engraving of three people playing cards at a table in a rustic room with a fireplace and leaded window.

The Interrupted Game (Le Jeu intérrompu)

Jean Heudelot, 1730-68

Etching of a turbaned ruler in ceremonial robes before a draped curtain, with kneeling and standing attendants in an interior

Sultan Ahmed III Crowned in the Mosque at Eyups (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Par…

William Hogarth, 1723-24

Etching of a father seated feeding a child in a cluttered cottage interior, with a woman behind and a cooking pot by the hear

Father Feeding his Child

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Engraving of a seated woman in fashionable dress beside a screen in a Gothic church with tall columns and arches.

A Seated Lady, from "French Nobility at Church"

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1629

Engraved interior of a harem room with seated women, dancers, musicians and attendants on raised platforms.

The Seraglio (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol.…

William Hogarth, 1723-24

Etching of men playing tric trac in a dim tavern, with a seated man holding a mug beside a leaded window.

Tric Trac Players

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Circular engraving of an alchemist's laboratory with a kneeling scholar, furnaces, flasks, and a ring of Latin text.

The Alchemist's Laboratory from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae

Peter van der Doort, n.d.