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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,827 works

Albert Gallatin

James Sharples, ca. 1796

Watercolor portrait of a seated man in a black coat and white cravat, leaning on a black spindle chair, dated 1810.

Allan Melville

John Rubens Smith, 1810

Watercolor of a distant city skyline with church spires across a river, with sailing boats and a flagpole in the foreground.

Albany, New York

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Dorothea Hart

James Sharples, 1809

Watercolor of a crowded hall with feathered figures on a wooden stage, a standing man, and spectators.

Exhibition of Indian Tribal Ceremonies at the Olympic Theater, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

The Chief of the Little Osages

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pastel portrait of a man with white hair in an olive coat and white cravat against a dark blue background.

Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery

James Sharples, 1798

Watercolor of a dense crowd of Native American faces with feathered headdresses, painted faces, and a nursing infant in the f

Tableau of Indian Faces

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a striped paddle steamboat with passengers and an American flag moving between rocky cliffs on a river.

Steamboat Travel on the Hudson River

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca.1813

Pastel portrait of a man with gray hair, dark coat and white ruffled cravat against a dark background.

Noah Webster

James Sharples, 1751-1849

Watercolor of uniformed soldiers with bearskin hats, a drummer, mounted cavalry, and a blue flag, marching on a dirt road.

Members of the City Troop and Other Philadelphia Soldiery

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a ferry with carriage and passengers crossing a rocky river toward pale cliffs and wooded hills.

A Ferry Scene on the Susquehanna at Wright's Ferry, near Havre de Grace

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pastel landscape on tan paper showing rolling open ground, dark shrubs and a pale sky with a distant horizon.

Landscape

John Henry Twachtman, after 1890

Watercolor of people dancing and socializing in a wayside inn, with a fiddler playing near an open door.

Merrymaking at a Wayside Inn

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a white clapboard country house with columned porch, framed by large trees, a statue and urns on the lawn.

A Country Residence, Possibly General Moreau's Country House at Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pastel portrait of a woman in a pleated white bonnet with lace trim and a pale shawl against a dark background.

Abigail Smith Adams

James Sharples, ca.1796

Watercolor of Black sawyers cutting logs before a columned neoclassical building, with a woman holding a child and a horse ne

Black Sawyers Working in front of the Bank of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a stone tomb with an arched wooden door on a grassy hill, framed by trees and cypresses under a pale sky.

General Washington's Tomb at Mount Vernon (Copy after Engraving in The Port Folio Magazine, 1810)

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca.1813

Watercolor of trees and boulders on a shore, with rowboats and sailboats on a calm river and wooded cliffs beyond.

Weehawken from Turtle Grove

William James Bennett, ca. 1830

Watercolor of men in top hats eating oysters at a street barrow at night, with a woman holding a candle beside them.

Nightlife in Philadelphia - an Oyster Barrow in front of the Chestnut Street Theater

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of three brown clay vessels: a frog-shaped cup, a ribbed jar, and a narrow-necked bottle on a pale ground.

Indian Antiquities (Copy after Engraving in American Medical and Philosophical Register, 1812)

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1812-ca. 1813

Pen sketches on a page: seated man, three robed figures in an arch, a newsboy, a hat-wearing man, and a smoker.

Christ and Two Disciples on the Road to Emmaus (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-55

Watercolor of people walking on a cobbled street past a brick wall and classical building, with willow trees behind.

Sunday Morning in front of the Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of a crowd gathered before an open doorway, with a man in the doorway and many people raising arms and kneeling.

Black Methodists Holding a Prayer Meeting

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pen and ink sketch of a hooded figure bent over a desk with an open book, inkwell and candlestick.

Half-length Figure in a Monk's Cowl (Possibly a Self-portrait) (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854

Watercolor of a two-horse sleigh with passengers on a snowy Philadelphia street beside a columned bank building.

Winter Scene in Philadelphia - The Bank of the United States in the Background

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

An Osage Warrior

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Ink sketch of a seated man at a table under a mosquito net, with insects around him, on orange paper.

Man at Table beneath Mosquito Net (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854-55

Watercolor of a couple and street figures before a classical church, with a street lamp and a spotted dog.

"Worldly Folk" Questioning Chimney Sweeps and Their Master before Christ Church, Philadelphia

John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-ca. 1813

Watercolor of the packet ship Mohawk of Albany sailing past high wooded cliffs on a river with small sailboats nearby.

The Packet "Mohawk of Albany" Passing the Palisades

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813