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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Ink and wash design drawing of a classical fireplace with fluted Ionic columns and a frieze with foliage and animal relief.

Design for a fireplace

Robert Adam, mid-18th-late 18th century

Pen and ink drawing with pink wash of three curly-haired girls playing ball with a racket on a seaside beach.

Three Girls Playing at Ball at the Seaside

James W. Allen, ca. 1890-1910

Pen and wash drawing of a columned rotunda beside a garden walk with strolling figures, a long pond, and a distant obelisk.

View of the Queen's Theatre from the Rotunda at Stowe, Buckinghamshire

Jacques Rigaud, 1733-34

Engraved gallery interior with statues, workers unrolling a tapestry, courtiers and dogs, with a caption and coat of arms bel

Colbert Visiting the Gobelins

Sébastien Leclerc I, ca. 1665

Engraved frontispiece with two seated hunters, dogs, horses and hanging game, with dedicatory text in italic script.

Frontispiece with Hunters, Dogs and Horses, from "Hunting Scenes VI"

Antonio Tempesta, 1609

Engraving of horsemen with lances and dogs chasing ostriches across a landscape with palm trees.

Ostrich Hunt, from "Hunting Scenes VI"

Antonio Tempesta, 1609

Engraving of hunters on horseback and dogs attacking a bear in a forest, with more hunters in the distant landscape.

Bear Hunt, from "Hunting Scenes VI"

Antonio Tempesta, 1609

Etching of a Roman hall where attendants attack the elderly king Tarquin as soldiers with an axe and fasces look on.

Plate 14: The Tragic Death of Tarquin the Elder; from volume I of Rollin's 'Istoria Romana'

Bartolomeo Pinelli, 1818

Pen and brown wash landscape with a skeleton hanging from a bare tree, a stone bridge, and a figure on distant hills.

Skeleton Hanging from a Tree in a Landscape

Paul Bril, late 16th-early 17th century

Watercolor design of an ornate interior with gilded arches, painted ceiling figures, and a green damask wall panel.

Design for an Interior, possibly a Theater

V. S. Léon, ca. 1860-80

Engraved plate comparing Roman and Greek Ionic capitals with architectural drawings of temple columns and caryatids.

Various Roman Ionic capitals compared with Greek examples from Le Roy [S. Maria in Trastevere, S. Paoplo fuori le Mur…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, mid-18th century

Engraving of a lavish outdoor banquet with seated diners, servants, a musician, and a nude figure in a tub.

The Rich Man at His Table, from "The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1554

Brown ink and wash elevation of a classical greenhouse with columns, glazed panels, pediment and niche statues.

Design of a Greenhouse for the Right Honorable Earl of Coventry, Croome Court, Worcestershire (Elevation)

Robert Adam, 1760

Sepia drawing of a Gothic Revival town hall with a central dome, clock tower and many spires, viewed straight on.

Competition Drawing for the Manchester Town Hall

Thomas Allom, 1866

Watercolor design of a gothic tower with spire flanked by domed pavilions and an arcaded gallery, with figures on a lawn.

Design for a Gothic "Belle Vue"

William Hurst Ashpitel, ca. 1800

Engraving of three pilgrims beside a large tree overlooking a river valley with boats, cattle and a distant town.

Euntes in Emaus (Landscape with Pilgrims at Emmaus)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1555-56

Engraved landscape of pilgrims walking beneath a large tree beside a winding river, with a castle and sunset in the distance.

Euntes in Emaus (Landscape with Pilgrims at Emmaus), from "The Large Landscapes"

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1555-56

Engraving of a wooded landscape with a large tree, a covered wagon on a road, and a village church tower in the distance.

Wooded Region (Pagus Nemorosus), from "The Large Landscapes"

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1555-56

Watercolor drawing of a classical country house with a columned portico, statues on the roof, and obelisks along a gravel dri

East Front of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire

R. Blasson, 1790

Watercolor frontispiece design with farmers, sheep, a cow, and a circular view of ploughing oxen in hilly countryside.

Design for a Frontispiece

Josiah Boydell, ca. 1793

Architectural elevation drawing of a gallery with Corinthian columns, arched bays, statues in niches, and ornate relief panel

Section of a "Galerie dans le palais d'un souverain"

Charles Pierre Joseph Normand, ca. 1791

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental heraldic design with angels, putti, garlands, crowns and several coats of arms among cl

Design of the Arms of the Princes of Europe

Edward Francis Burney, late 18th-mid-19th century

Watercolor of a man reclining in a study beside a laid breakfast table, with a black dog, crossed swords on the wall.

A Bachelor in His Study (The Sportsman's Breakfast)

J. Buttfield, late 19th century

Pen and ink design of two swans in a lake within a rococo scroll cartouche, with ruins and a winged creature.

Design for a Tablet for a Chimney-Piece with Two Swans enclosed within a Cartouche

Thomas Johnson, 1762

Pen and watercolor design of two draped women holding a child's hands in a garden, inside an octagonal blue-bordered frame.

Design for a Porcelain Platter

Leroux, 1777

Etching of a boar and a mastiff with thistle, white lily and raspberry plants, with insects and moths scattered among them.

Boar and Mastiff

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1662-63

Ink and grey wash drawing of a neoclassical domed mausoleum with columns, statues, and flanking urns among trees.

Design for a Mausoleum

Sir William Chambers, 1740-1800

Etching of a shadowy vaulted interior with a stone pier, lamp, and hanging iron chains by Piranesi.

The Pier with a Lamp, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1749-50

Etching of a herdsman leading oxen and a dog past a cottage under a moonlit, cloudy sky with dark trees.

The Weary Ploughman, or The Herdsman, or Tardus Bubulcus

Samuel Palmer, begun 1858

Etching of a ploughman with oxen in a field beside tall cypress trees, under a dramatic cloudy sky over hills.

The Early Ploughman, or The Morning Spread Upon the Mountains

Samuel Palmer, begun before 1861