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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pencil design sheet with a spread-winged eagle over a striped shield, a cherub on a sea horse panel, and a dedicatory inscrip

Designs for the ornaments and inscription on a testimonial urn

Thomas Fletcher, 1800-1866

Pencil design sheet showing a covered tureen with leaf handles, a covered dish, and a rectangular tray with a leaf border.

Design for a tea-pot, verso: design for a covered dish and bowl

Thomas Fletcher, 1800-1866

Engraving of ancient bronze lamps on chains beside a large urn decorated with cameo medallions of heads and masks.

Various Lamps and a vase encusted with cameos, from "Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamen…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1778

Etching of massive ancient Roman stone walls and arcade beside a church tower, with figures and horsemen in a street.

Veduta degli avanzi del Foro di Nerva, l'arcade et la muraille (The Forum of Augustus [erroneously called the Forum o…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1757

Etching of a seated Minerva statue amid overgrown Roman ruins, inscribed tablets, columns and sculptural fragments.

Frontispiece, with Statue of Minerva, from "Vedute di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Etching of an ornate urn among ruins and foliage with reclining figures, under carved title lettering reading Vedute di Roma.

Frontispiece from "Vedute di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Etching of crumbling curved ruins with arched windows and columns, overgrown with plants, with small figures on the ground.

Avanzi del Tempio detto di Apollo nella Villa Adriana vicino a Tivoli (Hadrian's Villa. Remains of the Smaller Palace…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1768

Architectural drawing of a chimneypiece with fluted Ionic columns, a relief frieze of figures, and garland swags.

Design for a Chimneypiece with Ionic columns, a Frieze, and Cornice

Sir William Chambers, 1743-96

Architectural drawing of a classical chimney-piece with fluted columns, a frieze of masks and urns, and a scale bar.

Design for a Chimney-piece, for the Saloon, Milton Park, Northamptonshire

Sir William Chambers, 1770-76

Architectural elevation of a classical chimneypiece with fluted frieze, rosettes, bull's heads and a dark firebox, with dimen

Design for a Chimneypiece with a Classical Cornice, for Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire, Dining Room

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1769

Ink and wash drawing of a classical chimney-piece with swags, tassels, scrolled pediment and an urn finial.

Design for Hall Chimney-piece, Charlemont House, Dublin

Sir William Chambers, 1762

Design for Ceiling, either for 13 Berners Street, Westminster, London, or Whitton Park, Middlesex

Sir William Chambers, 1765-66

Pencil design for a decorative ceiling with lozenge borders, Greek key patterns, acanthus scrolls and a laurel medallion.

Design for a Ceiling for the Drawing Room at Milton Abbey, Dorset

Sir William Chambers, 1770-74

Pen and wash design for a gallery ceiling with a central circular medallion and scrolling ornamental corner panels.

Design for the Gallery ceiling, Richmond House, Whitehall, London

Sir William Chambers, 1760

Pen and wash architectural drawing of an ornate tripod stand with lion's paw feet, with dimensions and detail sections.

Capitoline, Antique Tripod

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1750-55

Pen and wash drawing of a fluted copper urn with scroll handles, beside a study of an ornamental mount with measurements.

Antique Vase of Copper in the Capitol

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1750-55

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate ceiling detail with floral garlands, moldings, a relief scene of robed figures, and an inte

Detail of Ceiling, Palazzo Massimi

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1750-55

Ink and wash architectural drawing of a mezzanine window in a classical entablature, with dentil cornice and moldings.

Mezzanine Window, Palazzo Madama

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1750-55

Ink and wash drawing of three ornamental stucco frames with scrolls, rosettes and moldings around blank centers.

Design for Three Stucco Frames

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1750-55

Watercolor elevation of a large classical building's river front with central portico, arcaded base, and water below.

Elevation of the South, or River Front of the New Building at Somerset Place

Sir William Chambers, mid-18th-late 18th century

Grey wash design drawing of a classical chimneypiece with ram's heads and a Leda and the Swan medallion.

Design for a Classical Chimneypiece with Rams Heads, and Leda and the Swan

Sir William Chambers, 1745-1800

Watercolor design of a gilded rococo mirror frame on blue ground beside a candle sconce with a fluted base.

Design for a Oblong Mirror with Sconces

John Yenn, late 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor plan of a formal flower garden with scrolled parterres, rectangular beds and a central circular basin.

Plan of the Flower Garden on the Northern Front, Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire

Charles Chetwynd, 2nd Earl Talbot, 1836

Grey wash drawing of Gothic abbey ruins with pointed arches, tall trees and a cloudy sky.

Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire

Thomas Sunderland, mid-18th-early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of a rocky wooded headland beside a calm sea, with a distant island under a pale sky.

Coastal Landscape

Alexander Cozens, ca. 1770

Brown wash drawing of a rocky cliff, stony riverbed and distant mountains under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Riverbed and Mountains

Alexander Cozens, 1770-86

Ink drawing of a lake with a small boat, framed by dark trees and shrubs, with a faint outline of sky at upper left.

A blot-lake with boat, surrounded by trees

Alexander Cozens, 1750-86

Ink and wash drawing of a ruined castle with an arched opening on a rocky hill, with trees and distant hills.

Ruined Castle and Trees

Alexander Cozens, ca. 1762

Watercolor elevation of a decorated wall with a central fireplace, arched mirror, floral panels and cameo medallions.

Elevation of Fireplace Wall in an Elizabethan Revival Room

John Dibblee Crace, ca. 1870-90

Watercolor design of a decorated room with painted ceiling, yellow wall panels, two fireplaces, and a central arched red door

Design for a room with two fireplaces

John Dibblee Crace, ca. 1860