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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Etching of four winged cherubs and a small boy standing in a row, one embracing another, with drapery and cross-hatched shadi

Four cherubs and a small boy standing

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etching of four naked chubby boys playing with a rearing goat in an open landscape, one riding on its back.

Four small boys and a goat

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Etching of six nude putti in a landscape, one wearing a grape wreath, another playing a pipe and tabor at right.

Six Boys

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Etching of four nude boys playing with a goat in a landscape, one riding its back, another reclining in the foreground.

Four small boys and a goat (copy in reverse)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century (?)

Etching of six nude putti in a landscape, one playing pipe and tabor, another wearing a grape wreath, under clouds.

Six Boys (copy in reverse)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century (?)

Etching of a dead deer, several hares and two woodcock birds arranged as a hunting still life on a light background.

Dead deer, hares and game

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

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

Etching of five hunting horns with cords, tassels and ribbons arranged in two groups on a light background.

Five hunting horns

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Etching of seven hunting horns in three groupings, with coiled tubing, cords, and straps rendered in fine hatched lines.

Seven hunting horns in three groupings

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Etched bird's-eye view map of London with dense streets, buildings and churches, labeled London in the upper right.

London before the Great Fire

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1666-77

Etching of two bust portraits, Democritus laughing on the left and Heraclitus weeping on the right, with a globe between them

Democritus and Heraclitus

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1650-60

Etching of a busy courtyard with horsemen, a carriage, and figures before brick and timber buildings with smoking chimneys.

Arundel House from the North

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etched view of Tangier's walled north side above the sea, with ships at left and walkers on a hill path in the foreground.

Prospect of ye North side of Tangier regarding the mayne Sea from the hill as you come from Whitby or the West, towar…

Wenceslaus Hollar, by 1673

Etching of Tangier's south-east shore with fortress walls, castle towers, anchored sailing ships and distant hills.

South East Corner of Tangier

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1669-73

Etched 1670 view of Tangier's city walls, round tower and harbor with boats, two figures watching from the foreground.

Part of Tangier from above, without the Water-gate

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1670

Etched prospect of walled Tangier with a harbor bay, sailing ships, fortified walls, and soldiers on the hills.

Prospect of the Lower Part of Tangier

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1670

Etching of Tangier's rooftops and hilltop castle walls with a flagged tower, horses and figures in the street below.

Prospect of the inner part of Tangier

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1670

Etching of Tangier's rooftops and Yorke Castle on a hill, with a sailing ship on the water and Spain's coast beyond.

The lower inner part of Tangier

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1673

Etching of a walled castle with a tower beside a harbor with sailing ships, stone walls and hills in the distance.

The West Side of Yorke Castle

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1669

Etched landscape of Henrietta Fort on a hill above the coast, with palisades, numbered features and a ship on the distant oce

Henrietta Fort

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1670

Engraved aerial view of Tongerloo abbey with formal gardens, tree-lined avenues, and flat fields, with heraldic crests above.

Tongerloo (Tungerloa)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1650

An Old Man and a Girl

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1635

Etching of pigeons in a farmyard with a fence, nesting basket with eggs, and a round dovecote in the background.

Eight Pigeons (or Doves) in a Farmyard near a Coup, a Dovecote in the Background

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1654-58

Etching of several sailing ships battling rough waves under a dark, cloudy sky, with a large vessel at center.

Sea Storms

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665

Etching of three ships tossed by stormy waves under dark clouds, with a large sailing vessel in the foreground.

A yacht and three warships in a storm

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665

Etched view of the Gothic iron screen and carved tomb of Henry VII in a church interior, with heraldic crest and inscription.

Tomb of Henry VII (from Francis Sandford, "Genealogical History of the Kings of England,"1677)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1665

Etching of a river with moored boats, large trees on the right, and a town with a tower on the left bank.

Schiff-math (Boat Yard), from "Small Views"

Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1629

Etching of a round crenellated tower beside a city wall, with figures walking under trees and a boat seen through an arched g

The Kunibert Tower near Cologne [copy]

Abraham Aubri, after 1644

Etched cityscape of London seen from a terrace, with church towers, spires, rooftops, river boats and three standing figures.

London from Arundel House (copy)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century (?)

Etched view of a busy courtyard at Arundel House in London, with horses, a carriage, figures and smoking chimneys.

Arundel House from the North (copy)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century (?)