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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

506 works

Engraving of an elegant 18th-century interior with men at a table holding papers, a seated woman, and a dog.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate I

Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, April 1, 1745

Engraving of an elegant 18th-century drawing room with a seated man, a woman at a tea table, and a surprised standing man.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II

Bernard Baron, April 1, 1745

Etching of a crowded tavern-like room with women at a card table, a small child on the floor, and a bottle in the foreground.

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 6

William Hogarth, before April 1732

Engraved interior with figures at a table, a dog, an overturned chair, and a river view through an open window.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI

Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, April 1, 1745

Engraved domestic interior with figures at a table, a dog, a river view through a window, and a seated woman embraced by anot

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI

the elder Simon Francis Ravenet, April 1745

Engraved interior with a woman and gentleman before a clerk at a desk, a kneeling servant, two dogs, and children.

A Rake's Progress, Plate 5

William Hogarth, June 25, 1735

Dark interior drawing of a figure reading at a round table lit by a lamp, with warm red tones on the tabletop.

Figure Reading at a Table in an Interior at Night

Vilhelm Hammershøi, ca. 1891

Pen and ink print of a sailor's family in a ship cabin, a woman embracing a child with a dog and another woman nearby.

A Sailor's Family

Thomas Rowlandson, 1787

Engraving of a crowded tavern with men gambling at tables, a dog, a fallen wig, and smoke filling the room.

A Rake's Progress, Plate 6

William Hogarth, June 25, 1735

Etching of Pompeii's ruined interior with brick walls, an arched doorway, a colonnade, and small figures on the pavement.

View of the interior of the city of Pompeii, from "Antiquités de Pompeïa, tome premier, Antiquités de la Grande Grèce…

Francesco Piranesi, 1804

Etching of a crowded night auction room with men in tricorn hats bidding on prints under a chandelier.

A Print Sale - A Night Auction

Thomas Rowlandson, 1788

Engraving of a cluttered garret with a poet at his desk, two women working by the fireplace, a cat and dog on the floor.

The Distrest Poet

William Hogarth, March 3, 1737

Engraving of a crowded Gothic vaulted hall with merchant stalls, gallery balconies, chandeliers and heraldic shields on the w

Interior View of Vladislav Hall at Prague Castle during the Annual Fair

Aegidius Sadeler, 1607

Etching of a crowded 1627 banquet hall with guests at long tables, a chandelier, draped canopy, and a Medici coat of arms.

Banquet of the Piacevoli, Medici coat of arms at top center

Stefano Della Bella, 1627

Engraving of a knight consulting a lawyer in a book-lined office, with clerks writing and dogs on the floor.

Hudibras and the Lawyer (Plate 12: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Etched interior of a colonnaded Roman-style hall with Corinthian columns, statues in niches, and small figures on steps.

Plate 9: Colonnaded hall according to the custom of the ancient Romans (...), from "Part one of architecture and pers…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1743

Etching of a church interior with skeletal death figures on pillars, hooded mourners with staffs, and candlelit altars behind

Interior of the church of San Lorenzo in Florence, five pillars, each with a large figure of death on a pedestal, ten…

Stefano Della Bella, 1637

Engraved theatre ticket showing period-dressed figures in an interior with a window and bed, framed by scrollwork and flower

Ticket for Fielding's The Mock Doctor

William Hogarth, 1732(?)

Etching of a cluttered room with a seated man at a desk, two women by the fireplace, and a dog on the floor.

The Distressed Poet

Dent, ca. 1800

Etched interior view of a funeral catafalque in a church choir, with a central coat of arms, arches, and small figures on the

The tomb of Ferdinand II at center in the background within the choir of the church, three arches in center foregroun…

Stefano Della Bella, 1637

Watercolor interior of a basilica with rows of columns, coffered ceilings, and kneeling figures in the foreground.

Interior View of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

Anton Hallmann, 1833

Watercolor interior of a vaulted grain hall with brick arches, columns, a dome at left, and workers stacking flour sacks.

La Halle aux Blés, Interior View

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, ca. 1810

Etching of a woman kneeling by a trunk in a cave-like room with a table, hanging lamp, draped cloth and a crucifix.

Cave Life in Vicksburg during the Seige (from Confederate War Etchings)

Adalbert John Volck, 1861-63

Engraved interior scene of a fashionable couple, a servant child, a dwarf figure and crowded wall paintings.

Taste in High Life

Samuel Phillips, May 1, 1798

Engraved print of costumed guests at a masquerade in a candlelit room with drapery and a fireplace.

Royal Masquerade Somerset House

Thomas Cook, October 21, 1805

Circular engraving of a church interior with tall columns, a coffered ceiling, and small figures kneeling and standing in the

Print of the Reverse of the Portrait Medal of Fortunée-Marie d'Est, Princesse de Conti with an Interier View of the C…

Joseph Varin, 1781