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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,447 works

Circular pen and blue wash drawing of a robed man among armored soldiers and columns, with a kneeling figure in the foregroun

St. George and the Sorcerer of Dacian

Lambert van Noort, 1555

Grey wash drawing of two seated bearded men conversing in a classical colonnaded interior, with a third man leaning over a ba

Mordecai overhears the two Conspirators plotting against the King

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grotesque Head With a Large Eyebrow Looking to the Left Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Pen and wash drawing of men drinking in a cluttered tavern with shelves of jugs, a ladder, and barrels.

Drinkers in a Tavern

Adriaen van Ostade, 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of a dim barn interior with peasants, cows, and chickens beneath heavy timber roof beams.

Barn Interior with Peasants and Cows (recto); Six Studies of Peasants (verso)

Isaac van Ostade, 17th century

Hand-colored title page for Songs of Innocence showing a woman reading to two children beneath a tree, with ornate lettering.

Songs of Innocence: Title Page

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated man in a flat cap beside a doorway, with a dog at his feet.

Seated Man Wearing a Flat Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635-40

Pen and ink design drawing of an arched entrance portal with paired columns, volute brackets and a heavy entablature.

Design for an Entrance Portal

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Hand-colored page with the poem Introduction in red text, framed by twisting vines and small figures in roundels.

Songs of Innocence: Introduction

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

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

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with Virgin, Christ child, angels and classical architecture.

The Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Sketches (verso)

Maarten van Heemskerck, ca. 1532-37

Hand-colored page showing children playing on a green under a large tree, with a poem printed below in orange text.

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Drawing of an ornate vase design with two eagle heads as handles, scrolling ornament and a fluted neck.

Design for Vase with Eagles

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Grey sketch of bathers in a wooded landscape on a 1898 Cézanne exhibition announcement from Galerie Vollard.

Exhibition Announcement and Catalogue for a Cézanne show at the Galerie Vollard (May 9-June 10, 1898)

Paul Cézanne, 1898

Hand-coloured illuminated plate of children and adults on a green beneath vines, with a poem above.

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Pen and brown wash drawing of two curved ornamental cornice designs with scrollwork, volutes and small putti figures.

Two Designs for the Decoration of a Circular Frieze or Cornice

Agostino Mitelli, mid-17th century

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns by soldiers, inside a circular border of scrollwork and putti, dated 1509.

Christ Crowned with Thorns, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Innocence showing a child with sheep beside a cottage, poem text above, vine border.

Songs of Innocence: The Lamb

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Ink drawing on blue paper of a wren on a thorny branch with leaves, berries and a beetle in a circular design.

Design for a Plate

Karl Bodmer, 1825-93

Red chalk drawing of a man with long curly hair and a wide-brimmed hat, looking to the side with a serious expression.

Portrait of a man, bust-length, wearing a hat

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, ca. 1510-15

Hand-colored page with a swirling tree, winged figures, and two verses about a sparrow and robin, titled The Blossom.

Songs of Innocence: The Blossom

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Circular brown ink drawing of the Judgment of Paris with three nude goddesses, a seated man, Cupid, and a reclining river god

The Judgment of Paris

Pieter de Jode, late 16th-mid 17th century

Etching of an elderly woman with a headscarf and lace collar, head bent, seen three-quarters right, dated 1628.

The Artist's Mother: Head and Bust, Three-Quarters Right

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1628

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

Dark chiaroscuro print of a Roman-style triumphal procession with soldiers, spears, banners and a crowned figure.

Sheet 8 from "The Triumphs of Caesar"

Andrea Andreani, 1599

Grey wash drawing after Giotto showing St. Francis on a bier, mourning monks, a procession and angels above.

Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi

William Young Ottley, 1795-1836

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

Daumier lithograph of two men: one bundled in winter coat and top hat, the other relaxed in summer clothes, captioned about V

The assemby in Versailles: In January -Wretched winter!... In June -Scoundrel of a summer!...

Honoré Daumier, June 22, 1872

Brown ink and wash design of a bird resting among curving branches and feathery leaves inside a circular frame.

Design for a Plate Decorated with a Bird and Plant Motifs

Karl Bodmer, 1825-93

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