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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Engraving of a helmeted tooth-puller on horseback pulling a tooth from a woman while a crowd watches in a town street.

The Tooth-Puller

Pieter van der Borcht

Engraving of a woman scolding a seated man by an oak tree, with chickens, a rooster, a pig and onlookers in a house window.

The Hen-Pecked Husband

Pieter van der Borcht

Engraved Flemish village street with houses, figures at windows, a barrel roller, a bread carrier and a fishing boat on a riv

A Flemish Village with Ten Proverbs on Laziness

Frans Huys, n.d.

Etched landscape with hills, a walled town by a river, grazing cattle, and a mythological chariot in the clouds above.

Landscape with Mercury Holding Argus's Head

Hieronymus Cock, 16th century

Etching of a village road with a thatched farmhouse, sheds, tall trees, and a woman with a child walking in the foreground.

Village Road with a Farm and Sheds, from the series, The Small Landscapes (Multifariarum Casularum)

Johannes van Doetecum I, 1559-61

Etching of a village road with thatched cottages, a post mill, cultivated fields, and a rider on horseback.

Fields with a Village Road with Post Mill, from the series The Small Landscapes (Multifariarum Casularum)

Johannes van Doetecum I, 1559-61

Engraved landscape with a rocky hill, hermitage chapel, kneeling saint, lion, crucifix, and village in the valley.

Landscape with Saint Jerome

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70

Etching of a river landscape with a large tree, boats, a walled town, a rocky mountain, and birds in the sky.

Mountain Landscape

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70

Pencil sketch of a symmetrical ornate festival structure with domed pavilions, stepped passage and draped figures in the corn

Design for a Festival Display of Fireworks (recto); Small Figures by a different hand (verso)

Laurent Hubert, 18th century

Etching of dark-sailed barges moored by a riverbank with trees and buildings, reflected in calm water.

Hurlingham

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Grey wash drawing of robed figures and an ox before classical columns and arches in a crowded ancient interior.

Samuel Anointing the Young David (?)

Jan Erasmus Quellinus, n.d.

Etching of a man in a rowboat on a still lake, holding a fishing rod while netting a fish, with trees on the shore.

Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake

Winslow Homer, 1889

Engraving of a woman with a parasol on a beach, with a couple seated by a rowboat near the sea and grasses in the foreground.

On the Beach - Two are Company, Three are None, from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVI

Winslow Homer, August 17, 1872

Wood engraving of children picking berries in a meadow, with a sailboat on the sea and clouds overhead.

Gathering Berries (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, July 11, 1874

Wood engraving of two men camping by a lake with canoes, a lean-to, a campfire, fish, and mountains behind.

Camping Out in Adirondacks (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, November 7, 1874

Wood engraving of a standing speaker gesturing to a seated crowd around a campfire, with tepees and bare trees behind.

Around the Council Fire, The Young Brave's Speech, from "Harper's Weekly"

Edwin Austin Abbey, May 10, 1873

Pen and grey wash design drawing of an ornate casket with garlands, scrolled feet, and a central satyr mask panel.

Design for an Casket heavily decorated Foliate Scrolls, Garlands and a Satyr Mask

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate arched frame with scrolling volutes and a central cartouche above a blank opening.

Design for the Top of an Arch, Decorated with a Cherub (recto); Design for the Frame of a Frieze (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Etching of the Pantheon in Rome showing its columned portico, pediment, dome and bell towers, with street figures below.

The Pantheon exterior (Veduta del Pantheon d'Agrippa oggi Chiesa di S. Maria ad Martyres)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720-78

Pen and watercolor drawing of a thatched farm building with a chimney, wheelbarrow, wagon wheel, and leaning poles.

A Farm Building (recto); Head of a Woman and Slight Sketch of Woman Holding a Child (verso)

Abraham Bloemaert, late 16th-mid-17th century

Pencil and wash drawing of a crowded columned station hall with men in top hats and women in gowns sprawled on steps.

At the Railroad Station

called Numa Pierre-Numa Bassaget, 1850-59

Pencil drawing of an elegant crowd in a columned hall, women in full gowns and men in top hats.

Crowd Leaving a Theater (?)

called Numa Pierre-Numa Bassaget, 19th century

Engraved portrait of a seated cardinal beside a draped curtain, with a long gallery of busts and statues behind him and a glo

Cardinal Jules Mazarin Seated Within the Gallery of his Palace

Robert Nanteuil, 1659

Engraving of a huge beached sperm whale on a shore, with crowds, horsemen, barrels, sailing ships and hills behind.

Sperm whale beached near Berkhey on 3 February, 1598

Jacob Matham, 1598

Engraving of soldiers gathered under pine boughs at a camp sutler's stand, with a campfire and an officer at right.

Thanksgiving in Camp (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)

Winslow Homer, November 29, 1862

Engraving of soldiers resting by a campfire beside a long line of covered wagons and mules during a halt.

Halt of a Wagon Train (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VIII)

Winslow Homer, February 6, 1864

Engraving of people at a seaside clam bake on rocky beach, with smoke rising and sailboats on the sea.

Sea-side Sketches - A Clam Bake (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, August 23, 1873

Engraving of boys linked in a snap-the-whip game running across a meadow beside a schoolhouse and wooded hills.

Snap-the-Whip (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, September 20, 1873

Wood engraving of children in a rowboat on harbor water, with sailboats and a cloudy sky behind them.

Gloucester Harbor (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, September 27, 1873

Engraving of three figures on a beach at high tide, with waves, seagulls, and ships on the horizon.

High Tide (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)

Winslow Homer, August 6, 1870