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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

820 works

Watercolor sheet with several designs for decorated teacups and cups, showing gold, blue, red, and green ornamental patterns.

Eleven Designs for Decorated Cups, including Venice and Celestial Patterns

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill], ca. 1852

Engraving of a barefoot young woman with a flower basket and bouquets in a woodland setting, titled The Flower Girl Fanchonet

The Flower Girl Fanchonette

John Ingram, 1741-63

Ornamental ceiling design with gold and blue acanthus scrolls on a pink field, framed by grey leaf border.

Design for a ceiling with floral design

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Page of numbered watercolor designs for decorated cups showing floral, geometric and scroll borders in green, red, yellow and

Thirteen Designs for Decorated Cups

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill], 1845-55

Hand-colored print of white and blue double hyacinths with striped green leaves against a pale sky and distant landscape.

Hyacinths, from "The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature"

Thomas Warner, June 1, 1801

Watercolor design for a decorated ceiling with lilac panels, gilded moldings, and two putti on a cloud in the center.

Design for a ceiling with putti

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Album page with watercolor fan-shaped ornamental designs featuring flowers, scrollwork, peacock eyes, and a bouquet, numbered

Five Designs for Decorated Plates

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill], 1845-55

Hand-colored print of a blue Egyptian water lily with buds and lily pads, with a domed building and palms in the background.

The Blue Egyptian Water Lily, from "The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature"

Joseph Constantine Stadler, September 11, 1804

Watercolor design of an ornate interior wall with putti, flower garlands, fluted pilasters and a central doorway.

Design for wall panels with putti and flower garlands

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design for a two-handled platter with blue arched border, painted fruit and flowers, and a foliage-framed empty ce

Design for a Two-Handled Platter

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill], 1845-55

Watercolor of white convolvulus, wild rose, bramble and thistles with ivy on a mossy forest floor.

Flower study

John Jessop Hardwick, 1866

Decorative design panel with gilded scrollwork, a blue cherub in an oval medallion, and a garland of colorful flowers.

Design fo the Allegory of the Arts

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pen drawings of two ornate oval mirror frames and a painted curved plate rim with pink and green flowers on a sketchbook page

Designs for Two Mirrors and a Plate Rim

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill], 1845-55

Red chalk and brown wash sketch of a winged angel flying upward, holding a lily, with billowing drapery.

An Angel holding a Lily

Cosmas Damian Asam, early 18th century

Trompe l'oeil ceiling design with a golden urn of flowers and garlands in a molded niche against a blue sky.

Trompe l'oeil design for a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pen and ink drawing of a seated woman beside a table with a flower vase and a draped curtain.

A female figure seated beside a flower vase

Simone Cantarini, 1775

Engraved ornament panel with winged putti, acanthus scrolls, female term figures holding urns, and rosettes in symmetrical de

A panel of ornament with putti and other figures

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Painted decorative panel with a gilded urn, roses, foliage, a perched bird and red drapery in a trompe l'oeil niche.

Trompe l'oeil design of birds and flowers

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Etching of the Holy Family with a winged angel at right holding flowers, a draped curtain and column behind, and an urn below

The Holy Family, an angel holding flowers approaching from the right

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1550-53

Engraved ornamental panel with putti, acanthus scrolls, fruit baskets, winged birds and classical figures holding flaming urn

A panel of ornament, putti standing on cornucopia in lower section

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Mercury piping beside sleeping Argus above a hanging festoon of instruments, books, clock, armor and tools.

Mercury Putting Argus to Sleep and Festoon of Instruments, from "Festoons of Flowers, etc. no. 3"

Chromolithograph trade card of cyclist Fred Wood in a red jersey, with rose borders and a penny-farthing rider.

Fred Wood, Cyclist, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter, 1888

Pencil and watercolor study of a sprawling thistle plant with pink blossoms and spiny leaves on pale green paper.

Study of a Flowering Thistle

Carl Georg Anton Graeb, 1846

Engraving of Flora on a cloud receiving flowers, above a long cascading festoon of flowers and leaves.

Flora Receiving Flowers and Festoon of Flowers, from "Dessins d'aiguières, etc., no. 5"

Etching of a woman flower seller in bonnet and apron holding a basket of white carnations beside a doorway.

Flower Vendor

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1738

Engraved elevation and floor plan of a domed classical garden temple with columns and statues, titled Temple for a Flower Gar

Temple for a Flower Garden

John Soane, 1778

Vertical engraved ornament print with a chinoiserie pagoda, rococo scrollwork, seated figures, birds, and swans within a rule

Kiosk Chinois, from Premier cayer de panneaux, frises et sujets arabesques

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1788

Hand-colored engraving of a woman in red fur-trimmed robe and green skirt holding a sword and white lily, with a garden balus

French Judith, from Pierre Le Moyne's "La Gallerie des femmes fortes"

Abraham Bosse, 1647

Engraved portrait of a seated woman with a young girl holding flowers, with a garden landscape behind them.

Le Printemps

the Elder Jean Jacques Avril, 1760-1831

Chromolithograph card of a white moonflower with green leaves under a crescent moon and night sky, with a snake in the foliag

Moonflower (Ipomoea Bona Nox), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes

Goodwin & Company, 1890