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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,711 works

Pen drawing of a bookshop with a seated young man talking to an older bookseller, a ladder figure, and a woman by a window.

He went to Tonson, illustration to "The Noble Patron"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1888

Pen and ink drawing of harvesters resting by a haystack, with a standing woman holding a tool and a dog lying nearby.

The Harvesters, illustration to "The Leather Bottèl"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1887

Pen and ink drawing of three people in period dress seated on a stone bench near a tree, with ruins and distant travelers.

The bird to others flew, illustration to "A Love Song"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1887

Pen and ink drawing of a tavern interior with a man in a doorway, a woman in an apron, and a seated man in a hat.

"Will had her to the wine," illustration to "Phillada Flouts Me"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1886

Grey wash drawing of wooded sand dunes with a windmill on a ridge at left and a pair of small figures under clouds.

Wooded Dune Landscape near Haarlem, with Windmill and a Pair of Figures

Gerrit Jan Michaëlis, late 18th-mid-19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a riverside city with church spires, towers, a bridge and a sailboat, with handwritten labels.

View of Mâcon Seen from the East

Jan Peeters, mid-17th-late 17th century

An Angel Holding a Carafe on a Plate

David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville, n.d.

Watercolor sketch of a castle courtyard with arched galleries, a balcony of figures, and two horses in the foreground.

Lea Castle, View in Tilt-Court, Facing North

John Carter, ca. 1816

Watercolor interior of a gothic-style drawing room with a vaulted ceiling, fireplace, framed paintings and blue sofas.

Drawing Room of Lea Castle, Looking West

John Carter, ca. 1816

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate fireplace mantelpiece with caryatids, a central mirror, and a putto statue.

Design for Mantlepiece

Antonio Francisco Baeta, late 19th century

Pen and grey wash design drawing of a fireplace chimneypiece with scroll frieze, acanthus brackets, and dimension notes.

Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers, 1743-1800

Architectural elevation of a fireplace with swag and rosette decoration set within paneled walls and a dentil cornice.

Design for a Chimneypiece in the Garden Hall, Manresa House, Roehampton, Surrey

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1760

Pen drawing of an ornate bucket-shaped vessel with figural handle, garlands, and reclining river gods among reeds.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Interlaced Figures, on a Body Adorned with Bucrania, Garlands, and T…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Pen and brown ink design for a vessel with scrolled handle, a reclining river god and two putti on its body.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Non-Figural Interlaces, on a Body Adorned with a River God and Two P…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Watercolor drawing of a dancer in an ornate costume holding a tambourine and wand, with urns in the background.

Miss Horton as Morgana

Isaac Robert Cruikshank, 1830-44

Pen drawing of a bucket-like vessel with strapwork handle, its body decorated with dancing musician figures and garlands.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Strapwork, on a Body Adorned with Dancing and Music-Making Antique-S…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate vessel with a figural handle, garland, and a bearded satyr head.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Two Interlaced Captives, on a Body Adorned with a Scroll, Garland, a…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Symmetrical geometric parterre pattern with green star and roundels on an aged album page, numbered 35.

Album containing 75 Drawings for Garden Trellises & Parterres

Jörg Rurfinger, ca. 1610-40

Graphite sketch of a seated bearded male nude holding a staff beside a standing male nude seen from behind, on cream paper.

Seated and Standing Male Nudes, after photographs by Eugène Durieu

Eugène Delacroix, 1855

Watercolor of a waterfall in a rocky gorge with two figures in the foreground and a stone bridge in the distance.

A Bridge on the Aar, at the Foot of the Grimsel, in the Canton of Berne

Caspar Wolf, ca. 1775

Brown wash drawing of a hilly landscape with large gnarled trees, a road with travelers, and a distant river valley.

Hilly Landscape with Trees and a Road on the Right

Georg Heinrich Busse, 1833

Watercolor and pen drawing of a Gothic church interior with an ornate carved altarpiece, tall columns, and wooden pews.

Interior of Saint Severin Church in Erfurt

Carl Georg Anton Graeb, 1855

Pencil sketch of a Gothic church interior with a woman carrying a child, kneeling women, children, and monks.

Saint Elizabeth Carrying Her First-born Son to the Church

Ludwig Emil Grimm, ca. 1850

Night drawing of a moonlit river with sailing boats, dark trees on the right bank, and moon reflected on the water.

The River Elbe Downstream of Hamburg by Moonlight

Christian Ernst Morgenstern, ca. 1828

Watercolor drawing of a weathered timber watermill with a waterwheel, two small figures on a path, and a cloudy sky.

Watermill

Ernst Erwin Oehme, ca. 1870

Pencil drawing of a father embracing his barefoot son in a stone courtyard, with onlookers on a balcony and in doorways.

Return of the Prodigal Son

Friedrich von Olivier, 1830-35

The Artist's Children: Friedrich, Emil, and Ernst

Friedrich Preller the Elder, ca. 1848

Watercolor of a sunlit Gothic cloister with ribbed vaults, a kneeling nun, a crucifix and potted plants.

Cloisters in a Nunnery

Simon Quaglio, ca. 1835

Watercolor of large trees over a pastoral field with a rustic building, a shepherd with sheep, and a distant village.

Italian Landscape with Trees (recto)

Friedrich Salathé, 1815-21

Watercolor drawing of a Christ crucifixion altarpiece with six framing scenes from the life of Christ, including the Nativity

Christ on the Cross with Six Scenes from the Life of Christ

Eduard von Steinle, ca. 1850