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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,034 works

Engraved double portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria in oval frames, with royal titles inscribed below.

Charles I and Henrietta Maria

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1641

Etching of a standing English gentlewoman in winter dress with fur muff, lace collar and black half-mask, by Wenceslaus Holla

English Lady in Winter Costume (The Winter habit of an English Gentlewoman)

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644

Lithograph of acrobats, stilt walkers and a ringmaster with a hoop on a stage, watched by a crowd of spectators.

Grands Sauteurs!, from "La Caricature"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1823-60

Lithograph of a crowd in top hats gathered before Aubert's shop window of caricature prints, a grinning man gesturing at cent

The Publisher Aubert (You must admit the government has a comic appearance)

Charles-Joseph Traviès, 1831

Woodcut of Saint Philip, a bearded elder holding a cross and a book, standing barefoot against a hatched dark background.

Saint Philip

Domenico Beccafumi, ca. 1540-1550

Black and white woodcut of a leaping figure beside apples, a woman at a trough, cattle, a thatched hut, and a full moon.

The Cyder Feast

Edward Calvert, 1828

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a long dress leaning on a cabinet in a studio with a vase of flowers and framed pictures.

Young Woman Leaning against a Low Cabinet in Artist's Studio

William Douglas Almond, late 19th-early 20th century

Daumier lithograph of a seated bespectacled director at a table with two women in dark dresses beside him, with French captio

Pardon, monsieur le directeur..., from "Naïvetés"

Honoré Daumier, March 21, 1859

Engraving of a crowd in top hats and bonnets on a night street under a gas lamp, faces showing worry and unease.

Sortant du Drame

Honoré Daumier, 19th century

Lithograph bust portrait of a man with tousled hair and cravat, with inscription naming Le Baron de Humboldt, 1821.

Portrait of Le Baron de Humboldt

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1821

Lithograph bust portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with printed inscription naming Gay-Lussac below.

Portrait of Joseph-Louise Gay Lussac

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Etching of two men resting under a large tree in a forest, with a wicker basket and walking staff beside them.

The Artist, Resting with his Guide

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1819

Lithograph portrait of a man above a cloud, with broken Egyptian statues, palms, a serpent and pyramids below.

Portrait of Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, half-length, an Egyptian landscape below with pyramids and temples and statues…

M. Fabroni, 1824

Engraved religious allegory with crucified Christ on a grapevine cross, flanked by Lex Vetus and Lex Nova figures and biblica

Typus Utriusque S. Legis

Hieronymus Wierix, 1570-1619

Engraved allegorical monument with golden tree, dragon, classical figures, coins and coats of arms on rocky mountain.

Pompa Introitus...Ferdinand, Austriaci. Antwerp

Peter Paul Rubens, 1635

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a fur-trimmed robe and skullcap, seated in an armchair with his hand on his ch

Portrait of Eleazor Swalmius

Jonas Suyderhoef, n.d.

Engraving of a fortune teller reading coffee grounds for women seated at a garden table under trees, with a dog and servant.

The Fortune Teller on Casting the Coffee Grounds, from an Original Design at Vaux-hall Gardens

Francis Hayman, 1748-60

Engraving of peasants drinking from a jug and cup while another man sleeps sprawled on the ground at right.

Peasants Drinking, from "Sixteen Peasant Subjects"

Cornelis Bloemaert, 17th century

Etching of a seated traveler with a basket and walking staff, a dog beside him, with the sea and sky behind.

Traveler with Dog, from "Sixteen Peasant Subjects"

Cornelis Bloemaert, 17th century

Engraving of Cupid above a flaming urn, with a horse-drawn chariot and procession of figures in a hilly landscape.

The Triumph of Love, from "The Triumphs of Petrarch"

Francesco Rosselli, 1480-1500

Colored woodcut of Christ carrying the cross through a crowd of soldiers and mourners, with a walled town on a hill behind.

The Bearing of the Cross, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre and laurel branch among nine draped Muses in a wooded landscape.

Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus

Raphael Morghen, 1784

Engraved print of a mounted man in a cloak leading a cheering crowd past brick buildings, with an American flag and a dog in

Triumph of Patriotism- Washington Entering New York, 25 November 1783

Alexander Hay Ritchie, 1858

Etching of two men in a rustic interior, one smoking a pipe and the other holding a cup beside a table with a bowl.

The Smoker and the Drinker

Adriaen van Ostade, 1682 (?)

Etching of an elderly man in a tall feathered hat and cloak, arms folded, grimacing toward one side.

Hurdy Gurdy Man

Adriaen van Ostade, 1647

Engraving of Diogenes seated nude beside his barrel, reading a book, with a geometry diagram and a bird nearby.

Diogenes seated with his barrel behind him, and reading a book while holding a stick that rests on a geometry book to…

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1526-27

Grey wash drawing of two crowned kings in a Gothic hall, one kneeling before the other as mitred bishops look on.

Louis III et Carloman donnent aux eveques du Royaume l'assurance de leur Fidelite en 882

Nicolas Lejeune, ca. 1791

Engraving of a street with a blacksmith and craftsmen making stirrups while riders and horses pass by.

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Stirrups, plate 9

Jan Collaert I, ca. 1600

Three-panel pen drawing: a painter at an easel slowly turns into a frog among reeds and lily pads.

Echo of the Concours Galland (Echo du Concours Galland)

O. Deleiderrier, 19th century

Broadside with 48 numbered comic scenes of the student Borrascas, with Spanish verses under each panel, 1859.

Broadside with 48 scenes of the life of Borrascas the student

Juan Llorens, 1859