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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Pen and watercolor drawing of nude Venus with a billowing cloth, Anchises seated beside her, and a cupid above.

Venus, Anchises and Cupid

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of a nude muscular man lifting an arm while supporting a draped figure bent at his side.

Standing Nude Man Supporting Fainting Female (Ludovisi Gaul in the Uffizi)

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of travelers with horses, a loaded cart, and a dog on a road beside sheds and trees.

Migrants

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with tall trees, boulders, and a hilltop village under a pale sky.

Landscape

Cornelius van Poelenburgh, 1609-67

Illuminated page of Blake's poem The Chimney Sweeper with colored border and figures dancing in a green landscape below.

Songs of Innocence: The Chimney Sweeper

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Ink and wash drawing of a rocky hillside with overgrown Roman ruins, a fluted column and arches, and a distant plain.

Landscape with Roman Ruins

Cornelius van Poelenburgh, 1609-67

Brown wash drawing of a haloed Franciscan friar distributing knotted cords to kneeling figures and souls rising from clouds.

The Distribution of the Franciscan Cords

Jan Erasmus Quellinus, 1667

Hand-colored page with a child pointing into a dark night landscape, above the poem The Little Boy Lost in orange lettering.

Songs of Innocence: Little Boy Lost

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored illustration of a haloed robed figure leading a small child through dark trees, with verse text below.

Songs of Innocence: The Little Boy Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Watercolor illuminated page of Blake's Laughing Song showing figures feasting under trees above poem text with bird border.

Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page of William Blake's poem A Cradle Song with flowing gold vines and blue and pink washes.

Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-coloured illustration of a woman in a red robe bending over a sleeping infant in a cradle, with an inscribed verse above

Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with the poem The Divine Image, framed by colorful scrollwork and small figures with vines.

Songs of Innocence: The Divine Image

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with the poem Holy Thursday, showing rows of children in procession above and figures below.

Songs of Innocence: Holy Thursday

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page of Blake's Night showing poem text, a slender tree, a crescent moon and small angel figures in blue and gre

Songs of Innocence: Night

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Blake illuminated plate: orange text verses above a night landscape with a tree and haloed angel figures in watercolor.

Songs of Innocence: Night (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a woman holding an infant under a tree beside sheep, and the verse 'Spring' below in orange text.

Songs of Innocence: Spring

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a child embracing a lamb beside sheep, with two verses of text and a swirling sun above.

Songs of Innocence: Spring (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with the poem Nurse's Song above a scene of children playing in a green landscape while a seated nurse watc

Songs of Innocence: Nurse's Song

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a seated mother and infant under flame-like red forms, poem text and vine borders below.

Songs of Innocence: Infant Joy

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page titled A Dream with colored verse, foliage border, and a small figure beside a glow-worm and beetle.

Songs of Innocence: A Dream

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Innocence with poem On Anothers Sorrow, framed by a tree and decorative border.

Songs of Innocence: On Anothers Sorrow

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored print of a pink-clad figure holding a winged child aloft, with a tree, sheep, and yellow sunset landscape.

Songs of Experience: Frontispiece

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored title page with gilt lettering, winged figures, and a woman in pink mourning over a reclining body on a tomb.

Songs of Experience: Title-page

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Pen and brown ink drawing of a pastoral scene with shepherds, a well, sheep, cattle and large trees beside a river.

The Meeting of Jacob And Rachel at the Well

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640-49

Pen and brown wash drawing of a kneeling man before a haloed angel beside a candelabrum in a vaulted interior.

Zacharias and the Angel

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606-69

Pen and ink drawing of a man leading a laden camel with a decorated saddle, with faint sketches of other figures at left.

Man Leading a Camel

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650-69

Pen and brown ink sketch of three figures: a standing bearded man, a gesturing woman in a headscarf, and a kneeling figure.

Study for a Pietà

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606-69

Pencil sketch of a flat landscape with two windmills, farmhouses in the middle ground, and a dirt path in the foreground.

Landscape With Two Mills

Rembrandt van Rijn, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of an old bearded man kneeling in prayer in a dim study beside a window and crucifix.

Saint Jerome Praying in His Study

Rembrandt van Rijn, 17th century

Hand-colored page with poem Introduction, showing a reclining nude figure on a cloud beneath a sun, against a starry night sk

Songs of Experience: Introduction

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with the poem Earth's Answer in orange script, framed by blue and green watercolor, twisting roots and vine

Songs of Experience: Earth's Answer

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Grey wash drawing of a hilly landscape with a wooden bridge, large trees, a walking figure, and a house on the right.

Landscape

Roelant Roghman, 17th century

Hand-colored page with watercolor cattle and sheep above a poem, The Clod & the Pebble, and small ducks and frogs below.

Songs of Experience: The Clod & the Pebble

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Page from Blake's Songs of Experience with the poem Holy Thursday, watercolor scenes of a standing woman, mountains and child

Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Brown wash drawing of shepherds resting among cattle, sheep and goats, with a piper and a ruined tower on a hill.

Pastoral

Willem Romeyn, 1640-94

Pen and ink sketch of a standing figure beside a row of heads and partial figures on tan paper.

Alcibiades Interrupting the Symposium (recto); Sketches of the Baptism of Christ and of a Man (verso)

Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1601-02 (recto); ca. 1601 (verso)

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling figure before standing robed women on stone steps, after Rubens.

Presentation in the Temple

Peter Paul Rubens, recto 1611; verso 1601-2

Illuminated page with the poem The Little Girl Lost, two embracing figures, a lion, and a vine border in watercolor.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Blake illuminated page: a reclining woman in pink beside tents, and a lioness below beneath a branch, with poem text.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost (second plate); The Little Girl Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a poem in red text, showing a reclining nude, two children, lions, and a twisted tree.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Found (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored print of a small figure in snow beside a cottage, with a poem titled The Chimney Sweeper above.

Songs of Experience: The Chimney Sweeper

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored Blake page with a verse above a woman in pink combing a child's hair beside vines and a seated figure.

Songs of Experience: Nurses Song

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a thorny rose plant, a worm in the foreground, and the printed poem The Sick Rose by William Blake.

Songs of Experience: The Sick Rose

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Watercolor illustration of a woman and child beneath a tree, with a winged figure and a poem about a fly above.

Songs of Experience: The Fly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page by William Blake showing a reclining woman and a winged angel beneath a tree, with the poem The Angel below

Songs of Experience: The Angel

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page of Blake's poems My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower and The Lilly, with a watercolor vignette of two figur

Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lilly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Pen sketch of a man in plumed cap and armor and a woman in jeweled headdress, with handwritten colour notes.

Carolus, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Gerberga

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Drawing of Saint Lawrence on a grill surrounded by soldiers, a kneeling fire tender, and an angel above, in gray chalk.

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Peter Paul Rubens, early 17th century

Hand-colored page with William Blake's poem The Tyger, showing a striped tiger beside a tree under a watercolor sky.

Songs of Experience: The Tyger

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted warrior from behind, surrounded by rearing horses, soldiers, and raised spears in a battle.

Battle Scene

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Hand-colored page with three robed figures by a barred gate in a garden, above the handwritten poem The Garden of Love.

Songs of Experience: The Garden of Love

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a embracing seated couple under radiant light, verse titled The Little Vagabond, and figures by a fire

Songs of Experience: The Little Vagabond

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with an old man in blue bending toward a child beside a brick wall, above the poem "London".

Songs of Experience: London

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page with hand-colored poem The Human Abstract above a bearded man in blue clutching his head beside a tree.

Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page showing a mother in pink reaching for a naked infant on a bed beneath the poem Infant Sorrow.

Songs of Experience: Infant Sorrow

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Experience with the poem A Poison Tree, a tree, and a reclining figure below.

Songs of Experience: A Poison Tree

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with the poem A Little Boy Lost, kneeling figures, flames and a thorny green vine beside the text.

Songs of Experience: A Little Boy Lost

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored illuminated page of Blake's poem A Little Girl Lost, with red script and a tree with vines on the right.

Songs of Experience: A Little Girl Lost

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored illuminated page with poem To Tirzah above three robed figures tending a reclining nude beside green hills.

Songs of Experience: To Tirzah

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Study of a Standing Female Saint

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Hand-colored page of Blake's poem The School Boy, framed by vines with small children at the base and a climbing figure.

Songs of Experience: The School Boy

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page with hand-lettered verse and watercolor scene of a bearded bard playing a harp before a group of robed figur

Songs of Experience: The Voice of the Ancient Bard

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Brown ink and wash drawing of a scowling bearded satyr face with curly hair on an oval sheet.

Head of a Satyr (Silenus)

Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1620-30