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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,711 works

Pen and watercolor drawing of a seaside scene with bathing machine, riders, mermaid, and children playing on sand.

London at the Sea Side

John Leech, 1830-64

Pen and watercolor drawing of a boy on a carriage step and a girl reaching toward him beside a horse and coachman.

Boy (loq.) O don't I pity them poor Nobs in Carriages this hot weather

John Leech, 1830-64

Architectural elevation drawing of a rococo room wall with central door, columns, bust, windows and ornate scrolled decoratio

Design for the Decoration of the Window Door Wall of a Rococo Room with a Coved Ceiling and Coved Central Fanlight (S…

Thomas Lightoler, mid-18th century

Pen and wash elevation of a Rococo room with coffered ceiling, ornate mirror frames and a Corinthian doorway.

Design for Section of a Rococo Room, with a Coved Ceiling and Ornamented Corinthian Doorway

Thomas Lightoler, ca. 1750

Architectural sketch design with ground plan, bedroom plan and elevations for a smithy and two cottages, in watercolor and in

Design for a Smithy and Two Cottages

Charles Edward Mallows, late 19th-early 20th century

Watercolor design drawing of a gold tall church lamp stand with branching arms, scrollwork and glass shades on a tripod base.

Design for Church Lamp Stand

B. Mansfield, 1889

Watercolor elevation of a two-story stone building with five arched bays, iron railings, and pedestrians on the street.

Perspective elevation, from left, of stonefaced building of five bays and two stories

J. B. Marsh, 1866

Study of a Lady in a Riding Habit

Phil May, late 19th-early 20th century

Costume sketch of a figure in black tunic with yellow sash and tricorn hat with red feather, with handwritten notes.

Costume Drawing for Little John

Phil May, late 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of men in top hats and a woman with a dog in a crowded saloon beneath a chandelier.

The Hoffman House Saloon, New York

Phil May, ca. 1895

Pencil design drawing of an ornate door knocker with a flame finial and scrolled base, with a section detail and handwritten

Design for Door Knocker, for "The Builder's Journal"

Eleanor Mercer, 1886-96

Watercolor elevation drawing of a classical theater facade with a central pediment, colonnade, and dome under a cloudy sky.

Design for the Façade of a Theater (Perspective)

Charles Middleton, late 18th-early 19th century

Ink drawing of a symmetrical country house elevation with a columned portico, with a floor plan and scale bar below.

Plan and Elevation of Country House

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Pen and grey wash floor plan of a garden pavilion with central rectangular room, semicircular apses and a feet scale bar.

Plan for Garden Pavilion

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a garden pavilion with a pediment, caryatid figures, arched niches, and urns.

Elevation of Garden Pavilion

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Ink and watercolor design for a watchcase and chatelaine with rococo frames, cherubs, and a mythological medallion.

Design for an Enameled Watchcase and Châtelaine with Mythological Figures

George Michael Moser, ca. 1766 (?)

Red chalk drawing of muscular nude figures with grinning demons, one horned and one with bat-like ears, on a pale sheet.

Study of Figures from Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo, 1540-50

Pen drawing of a classical entablature and column section with egg-and-dart moldings, dentils, and a rosette on tan paper.

Design for Entablature

Robert Mylne the younger, mid-18th-early 19th century

Watercolor interior with a seated mother and child, children, two men in period dress, a canopy bed and tapestried walls.

Scene with Family and Guest in Seventeenth-Century Interior

Joseph Nash, 1825-78

Pen and ink architectural elevation of a classical building facade with arched doorway, pilasters, and a pedimented niche.

Elevation of Giulio Romano's House (recto); the Ruins from the Caelius Aqueduct and Temple of Claudius in Rome (verso)

Giovanni Battista Naldini, ca. 1557

Watercolor drawing of a carved oak fireplace with niches, columns and a central shield in the Jerusalem Chamber, 1838.

Oak Carving from Fireplace in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster

Charles James Richardson, 1838

Watercolor drawing of an ornate carved oak fireplace with scrolled pediment, ball finial, and arched central panel.

Oak Carving from Fireplace in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster

Charles James Richardson, 1820-71

Watercolor design of a carved oak fireplace frame with a pediment, arched niche and scrolled brackets.

Design for Oak Carving, from the Fireplace, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster

Charles James Richardson, 1820-71

Ink and wash drawing of a classical museum facade with domed pavilions, statues, and a horse-drawn carriage in front.

Design for a Museum or Repository

Stephen Riou, 1758

Pen and wash drawing of a Baroque fountain design with a shell niche, scrolled volutes, animal heads and a perched bird.

Fountain at the Villa Panfili, Italy

Stephen Riou, 1752

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate theatre interior with a decorated dome, tiered balconies, curtained boxes and a stage.

Interior of a Theatre

David Roberts, 1796-1864

Colored design for a Gothic stained glass window with five panels of Old Testament scenes and angels above.

Design for Old Testament Window

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ca. 1870

Pen and watercolor drawing of fishermen and boats on a seashore, with a small cottage and sailing ships in the distance.

Figures by the Seashore

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Rowlandson watercolor of a couple dining at a table with servants bringing plates, a dog beneath the cloth, and a folding scr

A Couple at Table with Servants

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of a rider struggling with a rearing white horse before an inn with onlookers.

Dr. Syntax with a Balky Horse Before an Inn

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century