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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,455 works

Etching of a boar, deer and heron lying dead on the ground, rendered in fine hatched linework.

Boar, deer, heron and other game

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Gold-washed design drawing of two rectangular ornamental panels, one with strapwork and rosettes, one with scrolling foliage

Two Rectangular Ornaments with Strapwork, Foliage and an Eagle

John Gregory Crace, 19th century

Decorated manuscript-style border with flowers, birds, a dog and Latin text, framing a faint pencil nativity sketch.

Decorated Border with Nativity Scene

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Etching of a sleeping nude infant reclining beneath a tree with two birds in the branches and a club beside him.

Infant Hercules asleep

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1625-77

Watercolor design for a stained glass window with a swallow over a wheat field and two lancets of flowering branches and urns

Design for a stained glass window

Alexander Gibbs, 1866-92

Pencil and watercolor frieze of dancers, a crouching creature, bird-headed Egyptian figures, and a cockatoo holding a pennant

Frieze of Figures and Birds

Rev. Geoffrey Liddell Johnstone, 19th century

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

Brown ink drawing of a hilly coastal village with sailing boats, hunters, and a decorative border of birds and fish.

Hilly Coastal Landscape with Hunters, with an elaborate border of Fishes and Birds

Engraving of Leda reclining nude beside a swan with spread wings, with two putti and an egg in the background.

Leda and the Swan

Cornelis Bos, 1544-66

Watercolor drawing of a blue and orange kingfisher with a long beak perched on a gnarled branch.

A Kingfisher on a Branch

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 16th century

Hand-colored chinoiserie print of figures on a bamboo bridge, parasols, garlands and flowering vines in soft pastel tones.

Chinoiserie, from "Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790-99

Engraving of a crested heron standing beside curling leaf-ornament scrollwork on a pale background.

Leaf-ornament with a Heron

Master ES, 15th century

Engraving of a wandering family and beggars on a road with a dog, a child holding an owl, and a castle in the distance.

The Beggars (Eulenspiegel)

Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Engraved ornamental title page with eagles, monkeys, squirrels and a central oval cartouche with French and German text.

Title Page, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler

Theodor de Bry, 1580-1600

Engraved print of a woman in a long gown on a cliff edge, with a raven on a branch, a fir tree and distant mountains.

Woman with a Raven at a Precipice

Christian Friedrich, 1803

Etching of a woman bathing in a stream under willows, with three ducks in the grass in the foreground.

Canards surpris

Félix Bracquemond, 1882

Woodcut of a crowned figure leaning over a sleeping nude man among animals, under clouds with sun and moon faces.

Creation of Eve, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Watercolor drawing of a brown and grey songbird perched on a curved branch with exposed roots, labeled Castrica Passerina.

Castrica Passerina

Vincenzo Leonardi

Etched Egyptian-style chimneypiece with a caryatid, mummy figure, hieroglyphs and sphinx heads above a burning fire.

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Mummy superimposed on a large caryatid above the lintel (Ch. à l'égyptiennne surm…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769

Watercolor of a male wood duck with green head and striped flanks standing on rocks before a pale landscape.

A Duck

Aert Schouman, mid-17th-late 17th century

Hand-colored print of Washington on a white horse under flags, greeted by women in gowns strewing flowers.

Washington's Reception by the Ladies on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N.J., April 1789, on His Way to New York to be…

Nathaniel Currier, 1845

Engraving of a man in dark coat stepping down stone stairs beside a flaming altar, with an allegorical woman and an eagle.

General Washington's Resignation

Alexander Lawson, 1799

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

Engraving of George Washington rising on clouds toward winged figures, with mourners and an eagle below a memorial inscriptio

Apotheosis of Washington

John James Barralet, 1800-1802

Engraving of two saints in a landscape: a young man with a lamb beside a tree, and a bearded elder with a staff and pig.

Saint John and Saint Anthony

Master IQV, ca. 1542-45

Two versions of an etching of figures in robes reaching up toward quails flying overhead, a biblical scene.

Moses Showing the Quails to the Israelites

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1545

Watercolor drawing of a barred brown and grey shrike-like bird perched on a twisted branch, with an ink inscription above.

Castrica Fratina

Vincenzo Leonardi, 17th century

Engraving of Mars and Venus reclining on a bed with Cupid, plus a mirrored reverse copy beside it.

Mars and Venus

Enea Vico, [1543]

Watercolor of a black curassow with a curled crest and yellow beak standing on a grassy mound.

A Black Curassow

Johannes Bronckhorst, late 17th-early 18th century

Watercolor of several black, blue and yellow birds perched on a gnarled branch, with a small river scene below.

Six South American Birds

Abraham Meertens, mid-18th-early 19th century