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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo scrolled crest with hanging drapery, signed Roma in the lower right.

Design for a Crest with Drapery (the Upper Part of a Canopy or Window Treatment)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pencil and wash sketches of ornamental forms on pale paper, including a tapering column, scrollwork, a hexagonal motif, and l

Fragmentary Sketches of Various Ornament

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Pen and grey wash drawing of a theatrical stage set with a vaulted ceiling, classical columns, and receding arches.

Design for Stage Set

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Grey ink drawing of parted drapery revealing angels on clouds around a radiant monstrance, possibly a stage design.

Parted Curtains Revealing Angels Upon Clouds Worshipping a Monstrance (Design for a Stage Set?)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

Sketch in black and red chalk of a seated woman in a classical hall with armed warriors and columns.

The Arming of Bellona

Laurent Hubert, 18th century

Pencil drawing of a neoclassical canopy bed with swagged drapery, tassels, domed top and urn finials.

Design for a Bed

Richard de Lalonde, between 1780-90

Sepia drawing of visitors in period dress strolling among classical ruins with carved masks, columns, and a large tree.

Visitors Inspecting Classical Ruins

Louis Jean Desprez, n.d.

Oval watercolor of a woman in a red bodice smoking beside a man at a table with glasses, with a crowded room behind them.

Un Mari Pour Rire

Paul-Emile-Anthony Morlon, n.d.

Watercolor of a kneeling man holding hands with a woman in a pink gown in a cluttered artist's studio.

Un Mari qu'on Aime

Paul-Emile-Anthony Morlon, n.d.

Pen and watercolor drawing of a gothic scene with a skull on a table, a kneeling woman, and ghostly figures reaching out in m

Scene from "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror" (Keepsake Story by Sir Walter Scott)

John William Wright, ca. 1828

Brown ink and wash sketch of a seated knight in armor and a robed monk raising a goblet, with a dog at left.

Book illustration: Knight and Monk

John William Wright, 1820-48

Neoclassical ceiling design with oval green ground, central medallion of classical figures, and garland borders.

Design for a Ceiling for the First Drawing Room at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire

Robert Adam, 1779-82

Architectural section drawing of a theatre interior showing stage, tiered balconies, ornate decoration, and roof structure in

Longitudinal Section of a Theatre

Nicolas Marie Potain, 18th century

Architectural elevation drawing of a neoclassical temple facade with Corinthian columns, sculpted pediment, and central bronz

Façade of the Madeleine, Paris

Jean-Arnould Léveil, mid-19th century

Pen and wash drawing of Boston harbor in 1778 with ships, rowboats, an American flag, and a distant waterfront town.

Boston Harbor

Pierre Ozanne, 1778

Drawing of a Corinthian capital with a winged horse and winged lion flanking a central crown above a fluted shaft.

The British Order: Elevation of a Capital and Part of the Fluted Shaft

James Adam, 1762

Watercolor costume design of a Franciscan monk in a grey hooded robe and rope belt, pointing to the left.

Brother Richard, a Franciscan Monk; costume design for Jeanne d'Arc by the Paris Opera Company, 1897

Charles Bianchini, 1897

Costume design of a medieval duke in purple velvet robe, jeweled crown and chainmail sleeves, with handwritten caption.

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; costume design for Jeanne d'Arc by the Paris Opera

Charles Bianchini, 1897

Costume design sketch of a praying woman in a pale gown, with a smaller figure at left wearing a tunic inscribed with flames.

Joan of Arc; costume design for Jeanne d'Arc by the Paris Opera Company, 1897

Charles Bianchini, 1897

Ink and wash design drawing of a classical fireplace with fluted Ionic columns and a frieze with foliage and animal relief.

Design for a fireplace

Robert Adam, mid-18th-late 18th century

Pen and ink drawing with pink wash of three curly-haired girls playing ball with a racket on a seaside beach.

Three Girls Playing at Ball at the Seaside

James W. Allen, ca. 1890-1910

Pen and wash drawing of a columned rotunda beside a garden walk with strolling figures, a long pond, and a distant obelisk.

View of the Queen's Theatre from the Rotunda at Stowe, Buckinghamshire

Jacques Rigaud, 1733-34

Brown wash drawing of clergy in vestments carrying a reliquary bust through a vaulted church interior with kneeling figures.

Scene 36: Reception of the heart and head of the Blessed Father Dom Jean de la Barrière, brought from Rome to his Abb…

Matthieu Elias, 1706-07

Grey wash drawing of a risen Christ with a banner standing over a skeleton, beside chained women in an arcaded hall.

Christ Saving Eve

Hans Jakob Nüscheler the Elder, 1595-1654

Pen and brown wash landscape with a skeleton hanging from a bare tree, a stone bridge, and a figure on distant hills.

Skeleton Hanging from a Tree in a Landscape

Paul Bril, late 16th-early 17th century

Drawing of a man resting beside a dog under a huge gnarled oak tree, with small figures working in the misty distance.

A Man Resting Under a Tree

Egbert van Drielst, n.d.

Watercolor design of an ornate interior with gilded arches, painted ceiling figures, and a green damask wall panel.

Design for an Interior, possibly a Theater

V. S. Léon, ca. 1860-80

Pencil and wash drawing of a Gothic building elevation above a site plan with botanic garden and professors houses.

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook V

Alexander Jackson Davis, n.d.

Pencil architectural sections of a library showing stacked floors, staircases, columns, and a cupola, labeled Chapel Hill, N.

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook VII

Alexander Jackson Davis, 19th century

Brown ink and wash elevation of a classical greenhouse with columns, glazed panels, pediment and niche statues.

Design of a Greenhouse for the Right Honorable Earl of Coventry, Croome Court, Worcestershire (Elevation)

Robert Adam, 1760