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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

506 works

Engraving of men fighting in a cluttered interior, one with a raised sword, while a woman and torch-bearer watch from the lef

Hudibras Catechized (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 9)

William Hogarth, February 1725-26

Etching of a peasant tavern interior where a woman bends toward a man paying, with seated men by a large hearth.

Peasant Paying his Bill

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of a Florentine church interior with a tall candle-lit catafalque, mourners, draped columns, and skeleton figures at

Catafalque of the Emperor Mathias with performance of funeral inside the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence

Jacques Callot, 1619

Etching of a lawyer and a knight confronting each other in a library office, with clerks writing at a desk and dogs in the fo

Hudibras and the Lawyer (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 12)

William Hogarth, February 1725-26

Etching of a peasant cottage interior with a seated man, a child on a stool, and an older woman by the hearth.

Father Feeding Child

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Engraving of a Frascati hall with a fountain of Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus and small figures on the tiled floor.

Stanza di Venti nel Teatro di Belvedere di Frascati

Giovanni Battista Falda, 1660-78

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

Etching of a rustic tavern interior with men drinking and playing cards at a table, a woman and a dog nearby.

The Taste

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of an imaginary classical interior with a large arch, Corinthian columns, a statue, and small figures.

Figures in an Imaginary Architectural Interior

Pierre Moreau, ca. 1760

Engraved scene of a crowded civic banquet in a hall, with feasting diners at a long table and a robed official at right.

The Industrious 'Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London: Industry and Idleness, plate 8

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Etching of a crowded tavern interior with men smoking clay pipes, drinking, and sitting near a large fireplace.

Smokers at the Inn

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Colored print of a church interior with a domed ceiling, columns, rows of seated worshippers, and an altarpiece.

St. Stephen's Walbrook, plate 90 from "Microcosm of London"

Thomas Rowlandson, November 1, 1809

Engraving of a church interior with an apprentice and young woman sharing a hymnal in a pew, organ and congregation behind.

The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: IIndustry and Idleness, plate 2

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Etching of a peasant family in a cluttered kitchen, with a woman nursing an infant by the hearth and a dog nearby.

The Family

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Engraved perspective of a hall with a receding barrel vault, niche statues, and grotesque-decorated ceiling in fine line.

Perspective view of the interior of a hall, with cross-vault decorated with grotesques, plate 18 from "Scenographiae…

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1601

Engraving of Joseph telling his dream to his father and brothers in an arched interior, with sun, moon and stars in the windo

Joseph explains his dream to his brothers and father in an interior setting; the sun, moon, and stars above a landsca…

Georg Pencz, 1544

Etching of a peasant kitchen interior with a woman nursing a baby, a man at the hearth, a child, a dog, and hanging pots.

The Family (reverse copy)

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Hand-colored print of visitors in Victorian dress in a Gothic-style Mediaeval Court with red hangings and display cases.

Mediaeval Court: The Great Exhibition of 1851

Joseph Nash, 1854

Engraved interior scene of figures in 18th-century dress, a woman and man struggling by a chair while a man in a cloak gestur

A man curled up in a chair looks toward another man who approaches him from the left in an interior setting, a woman…

Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin, ca. 1784

Engraving of a woman in a long gown holding an open alphabet book in an elegant interior with a balustrade.

Grammar: a young woman standing in a decorated interior holding an open book in her left hand and pointing to the alp…

Gilles Rousselet, 1633-35

Engraved architectural prints of the Chateau d'Anet courtyard interior and a frontal view of its gateway with arches and pila

Interior View of the Court Yard and Frontal View of the Defense Mechanism at Chateau d'Anet, from "Les plus excellent…

Jacques Androuet, 1607

Engraving of Elizabethan-style figures dining and conversing in a paneled room with a large leaded window and fireplace.

Falstaff and His Friends, "The Merry Wives of Windsor," from "The Art Journal," opposite p. 84

William Greatbach, May 1868

Engraving of a young woman in a lace collar holding a numbered sheet beside a table with books and an inkwell.

Arithmetic: a young woman standing at a table, holding a sheet with inscribed numbers in her right hand, in a decorat…

Gilles Rousselet, 1633-35

Engraved interior: a woman gestures to a wigged man with a teacup, a turbaned servant boy, a monkey, and broken crockery on t

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 2

William Hogarth, before April 1732

Engraved cutaway view of a domed Roman interior with columns, arched openings, and a circular baptismal font at the center.

Interior of the Lateran, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Nicolas Béatrizet, 16th century

Engraving of a veiled woman gesturing with her fingers beside a toad on books, in a room with leaded windows.

Dialectic: a young woman standing in a decorated interior and touching her right index finger to her left middle fing…

Gilles Rousselet, 1633-35

Engraving of King Henry VIII taking the hand of Anna Boleyn in an ornate hall while a seated cardinal looks on.

King Henry the Eighth and Anna Bullen

William Hogarth, 19th century

Engraving of a papal gathering in the Sistine Chapel with a crowd of clergy beneath the Last Judgement fresco.

A Papal Gathering in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the back wall; the crowd looks on through a…

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Engraving of a woman in a feathered hat holding a caduceus and fan in a draped interior, with French verse below.

Rhetoric: a young woman standing in a decorated interior with a caduceus in her right hand and a closed fan in her le…

Gilles Rousselet, 1633-35

Engraving of a cluttered bedchamber with a canopied bed, fireplace, seated woman, two wigged men and a kneeling woman at a tr

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5

William Hogarth, before April 1732