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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Grey wash drawing of a winding river through woodland, framed by a large tree, with figures in the foreground.

View of the Thames with Figures in Foreground

David Octavius Hill, 1820-70

Engraving of a man with a dagger attacking a nude woman on a canopy bed while a servant with a torch watches at left.

Tarquin attacking Lucretia, a servant at left witnessing the scene

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

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

Sepia drawing of St. Michael's Church, Cherry Burton, with a square tower, Gothic windows and figures in the churchyard.

St. Michael's Church, Cherry Burton: North East View

Horace Jones, 1845-50

Architectural elevation drawing of a long palace facade with a domed tower, arched windows, and statues along the roofline.

Whitehall Palace

Henry Flitcroft, 1715-70

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a Gothic Revival church facade with corner towers, rose window and pointed arch doorway.

Façade of a Gothic Revival Church

Henry Keene, 1745-76

Watercolor drawing of a two-story Italianate villa with a rooftop balustrade, surrounded by trees and a gravel path.

An Italianate Villa

Henry Edward Kendall Jr., 1820-85

Grey wash drawing of a classical landscape with trees framing a river, ruined columns, and a distant town under a pale sky.

Classical Landscape

George Washington Lambert, 1720-65

Watercolor design of a hexagonal hanging hall lamp with lattice panels and oval landscape medallions on a cream sheet.

Design for a Hall Lamp No.6

Lamqua, ca. 1845

Colored design drawing of a hexagonal hall lamp with pagoda roof, floral panel, and hanging bead tassels on paper.

Design for Hall Lamp No.9

Lamqua, ca. 1845

Grey wash drawing of an Egyptian-style interior with lotus columns, sphinx statues, hieroglyphic friezes and a central firepl

Design for an Egyptian-style Interior

Gaetano Landi, 1810

Pen and watercolour sketch of an angler seated by a river with cows and ducks, under windblown trees.

"The Riverside, Favourable Wind and the Trout Rising as Fast as Possible"

John Leech, 1830-64

Pen and watercolor caricature of an old gentleman fishing through ice on a snowy bank while a small figure swings an ice pick

The Pike is a voracious fish and bites readily in the Winter months-Old Gentleman is VERY fond of fishing

John Leech, 1830-64

Pen and watercolor drawing of a seaside scene with bathing machine, riders, mermaid, and children playing on sand.

London at the Sea Side

John Leech, 1830-64

Pen and watercolor drawing of a boy on a carriage step and a girl reaching toward him beside a horse and coachman.

Boy (loq.) O don't I pity them poor Nobs in Carriages this hot weather

John Leech, 1830-64

Architectural elevation drawing of a rococo room wall with central door, columns, bust, windows and ornate scrolled decoratio

Design for the Decoration of the Window Door Wall of a Rococo Room with a Coved Ceiling and Coved Central Fanlight (S…

Thomas Lightoler, mid-18th century

Pen and wash elevation of a Rococo room with coffered ceiling, ornate mirror frames and a Corinthian doorway.

Design for Section of a Rococo Room, with a Coved Ceiling and Ornamented Corinthian Doorway

Thomas Lightoler, ca. 1750

Pen and ink sketch of men in top hats and a woman with a dog in a crowded saloon beneath a chandelier.

The Hoffman House Saloon, New York

Phil May, ca. 1895

Watercolor elevation drawing of a classical theater facade with a central pediment, colonnade, and dome under a cloudy sky.

Design for the Façade of a Theater (Perspective)

Charles Middleton, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and grey wash floor plan of a garden pavilion with central rectangular room, semicircular apses and a feet scale bar.

Plan for Garden Pavilion

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a garden pavilion with a pediment, caryatid figures, arched niches, and urns.

Elevation of Garden Pavilion

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Etching of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome with statues on its roof, a domed chapel, carriages, and figures in the p

S. Giovanni in Laterano, main façade, with Palace and Scala Santa on the right (Veduta della Basilica di S. Giovanni…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1749

Etching of two domed churches beside Trajan's Column in Rome, with carriages and pedestrians on a busy street.

Two churches near Trajan's column, S. Maria di Loreto and Santissimo Nome di Maria (Veduta delle due chiesa, l'una de…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1762

Etching of the round Temple of Cybele in a busy Roman square with carts, figures, and a cloudy sky.

View of the Temple of Cybele in the Piazza of the Bocca della Verità (Veduta del Tempio di Cibele a Piazza della Bocc…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1758

Etching of ruined vaulted interior of the Canopus at Hadrian's Villa, with fallen masonry and small figures among the debris.

Hadrian's Villa: The Canopus (Avanzi del Tempio Dio Canopo nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Etching of a vaulted Roman bath chamber with a round basin, hanging lamp, arched niches and a skeleton on the floor.

View of Pompeii (Altra veduta della Stanza dove si preparava il Bogno Caldo . . . )

Francesco Piranesi, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of muscular nude figures with grinning demons, one horned and one with bat-like ears, on a pale sheet.

Study of Figures from Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo, 1540-50

Etching of ruined Corinthian columns and a carved frieze beside a Roman street with houses, trees and figures.

The Temple of Vespian (Veduta del Tempio di giove Tonante)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1756

Etching of a busy Roman riverside harbor with boats, barrels, stone steps, and church and palace buildings under clouds.

The smaller harbor, called the Porto di Ripetta (Veduta del Porto di Ripetta)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1753

Watercolor interior with a seated mother and child, children, two men in period dress, a canopy bed and tapestried walls.

Scene with Family and Guest in Seventeenth-Century Interior

Joseph Nash, 1825-78