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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

88 works

Etching of leaning trees on the left, a herdsman with cattle by a pool on the right, and an open sky above.

Landscape with a herdsmen

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1640-45

Etching of a herdsman leading a bull through a river past a leaning tree and a thatched cottage.

Herdsman and Bull, after Ruisdael

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1772

Etching of Saint John the Baptist seated beside a tree in a wooded landscape, holding a bowl, with a reed cross and animal sk

Saint John the Baptist in the desert, copy in reverse after Cantarini

Simone Cantarini, ca. 1637-39 or after

Grey wash drawing of a rocky mountain landscape with pine trees, a natural arch, and two travellers with laden horses on a ro

A Mountainous Landscape with Travellers on a Road

Jan van Aken, ca. 1650-55

Circular red chalk drawing of classical ruins, domed building and columns framed by trees, with small figures in the foregrou

Architectural Fantasy

Jean-Laurent Legeay, ca. 1785-90

Brown ink and wash drawing of a rolling valley with hedgerows and fields framed by trees, receding to a distant horizon.

Underriver-The Golden Valley

John Linnell, ca. 1833

Hand-colored title page for Songs of Innocence showing a woman reading to two children beneath a tree, with ornate lettering.

Songs of Innocence: Title Page

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Circular etching of large trees on a riverbank with a small boat, figures, a tower at left, and distant buildings.

Landscape with Trees by the Water

Goffredo Wals, n.d.

Circular pen and ink drawing of figures under trees with a scroll inscription naming the four temperaments.

The Four Temperaments

Jörg Breu the Elder, 1500-1537

Hand-colored page with a child pointing into a dark night landscape, above the poem The Little Boy Lost in orange lettering.

Songs of Innocence: Little Boy Lost

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Pen and wash drawing of three gnarled, weathered tree trunks standing on grass, with textured bark and exposed roots.

Study of Three Old Gnarled Trees

Johannes Siberechts, 1660

Engraving of an angel and a young boy walking through a dark wooded landscape with a distant tower and cloudy sky.

Tobias and the Angel (large plate)

Hendrick Goudt, 1613

Hand-colored illustration of a haloed robed figure leading a small child through dark trees, with verse text below.

Songs of Innocence: The Little Boy Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Engraving of nude figures and putti in a wooded landscape, with a winged cupid in the tree above.

Allegory of the Power of Love, with a man at center embracing a semi-naked woman, who is bound to a tree by Cupid

Cristofano di Michele Martini, 1480-1535

Etching of a nude long-haired man carrying a pale figure across a rocky hillside beneath cliffs and distant snowy mountains.

Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III)

Max Klinger, 1898

Hand-colored page of Blake's Night showing poem text, a slender tree, a crescent moon and small angel figures in blue and gre

Songs of Innocence: Night

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Etching of a thatched cottage under a full moon, with a shepherd, dog and sheep in a fenced lane at night.

Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep

Samuel Palmer, 1850

Circular engraving of Christ praying on a rock while sleeping disciples lie nearby, with soldiers approaching in the distant

Christ on the Mount of Olives, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Blake illuminated page: a reclining woman in pink beside tents, and a lioness below beneath a branch, with poem text.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost (second plate); The Little Girl Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Circular engraving of Christ kneeling in prayer while disciples sleep nearby and soldiers approach through a wooded landscape

Christ in Gethsemane (copy)

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, 17th century

Engraving of two robed saints in a wooded landscape with a pig, a bird, a castle, and boats in the distance.

Saint John and Anthony in a Landscape

Master IQV, ca. 1544-45

Hand-colored page with a poem in red text, showing a reclining nude, two children, lions, and a twisted tree.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Found (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Etching of a rural road with farmhouses, grazing cows and sheep, two figures, and a tall tree on a rocky bank.

In Regenberg

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1815

Grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with tall trees, two figures by a small wooden bridge, and a hidden house.

Landscape with a House Hidden Between Trees and Two Men Near a Small Bridge

Franciscus Andreas Milatz, late 18th-early 19th century

Hand-colored page of Blake's poems My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower and The Lilly, with a watercolor vignette of two figur

Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lilly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Circular etching of a ruined stone tower beside tall trees, with small figures on a path and rolling hills beyond.

Les Ruines a gauche

Circular brown ink and wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a large tree, a road with figures, and a distant tower.

Wooded Landscape with Figures on a Road

Jacob van der Ulft, mid-17th-late 17th century

Engraving of nude men fighting on foot and horseback in a wooded landscape, with a dog at lower left.

Group of naked men engaged in battle in a wooded landscape, some on horseback; a dog at lower left

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Circular etching of a walled estate with a tower, trees, and a horseback rider on a path beside a pond.

Le Porte Balle assis

Engraving of a young woman playing a flute beside sheep in a wooded pastoral landscape, within an oval frame.

Pastoral Poetry

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1742