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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Hand-colored lithograph of a large airship with a paddle wheel flying over a bay with sailing ships and hills.

Prince's Aerial Ship. Star of the East!

Norris's Lithography, 19th century

Woodcut of a reclining woman as a draughtsman sights her through a grid at a table beside a window with a plant.

Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Reclining Woman

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1600

Engraving of the Annunciation: a winged angel flies at upper left toward a kneeling woman beside a draped curtain and carved

The Annunciation with Flying Angel

Enea Vico, 1548

Engraving of Mars and Venus reclining on a bed with Cupid, plus a mirrored reverse copy beside it.

Mars and Venus

Enea Vico, [1543]

Engraved print of a martyrdom scene with soldiers, a kneeling figure, a seated judge, and classical columns and steps.

The Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1527

Etching of Othello's final scene: a kneeling man with a sword beside a dead woman on a bed, with cloaked men holding torches

"O Spartan dog": plate 15 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Pen and grey wash drawing of a female Fortune figure between two river gods, with sea creatures and reeds in a landscape.

An Allegory of Fortune with Two River Gods

Hans Jakob Ebelmann, 1624

Pencil drawing of a river with sailboats, a walking couple on a bank, and a cloudy sky with birds.

River Landscape

Jan Porcellis, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of sailing boats on choppy sea, two figures on shore by wooden posts, ships on horizon.

Choppy Sea with Boats near the Coast

Pieter van Everdingen, n.d.

Watercolor of a black curassow with a curled crest and yellow beak standing on a grassy mound.

A Black Curassow

Johannes Bronckhorst, late 17th-early 18th century

Brown wash drawing of an arcadian landscape with a gnarled tree, robed figures on a path, and a distant town.

Arcadian Landscape with Figures

Johannes de Bosch, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a winter road framed by bare trees, with two figures and a distant windmill under an overcast sky.

A Winter Landscape

Johannes Franciscus Hoppenbrouwers, 1854

Lithograph titled Pantheon Nadar showing hundreds of caricatured male figures arranged in tiers on a slope.

Nadar's Pantheon (Panthéon Nadar)

Nadar, 1854

Watercolor landscape of a stream, shepherd with cattle, wooded hills, and a hilltop building under clouds.

Licenza, near Rome: Horace's Villa

William Havell, ca. 1828-29

Red chalk drawing on blue paper of nude and draped female figures among trees in a woodland scene.

Diana and Callisto

Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, 1725-61

Pen and ink study with white highlights showing soldiers, a horse, and a crouching man around a stone block.

Historical Scene (Composition Study for Chapelle de Guise)

Niccolò dell' Abate, 16th century

Engraving of an alchemist's cluttered workshop with furnaces and flasks, and a snowy street scene with a hospital through a w

The Alchemist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, after 1558

Engraving of a crowded tavern where a quack performs a stone operation on a seated patient, surrounded by grotesque onlookers

The Stone Operation or the Witch of Mallegem

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559

Watercolor sheet of butterflies, moths, a green dragonfly, and beetles scattered on a pale background.

Insects, Butterflies, and a Dragonfly

Jan van Kessel, 1662

Pen and grey wash sheet of figure studies, with a seated official questioning two turbaned men at a table in the lower right.

Figure Studies, Including Scenes of Interrogation

Honoré Daumier, ca. 1860

Watercolor drawing of a canopied chariot procession with bishops, horses, and flying angels in a forest setting.

The Triumph of the Church: Ecclesia Presented with the Doctrines, Seated in a Chariot Attended by the Four Doctors of…

Otto van Veen, 1615-20

Engraving of a nude Nereid riding a sea centaur among sea creatures, with a man blowing a conch and cupids in the clouds.

A Nereid Riding a Sea Centaur Accompanied by Other Sea Creatures

Angiolo Falconetto, ca. 1540-60

Title page of Thronus Justitiae with a central engraved vignette of the allegorical figure of Justice holding scales and a sw

Typographic Title Page with a Vignette Depicting the Allegorical Figure of Justice, from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim…

Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, 1606

Etching of two hunters and a dog on a wooded hill overlooking a river valley, with a castle on a cliff and a distant city.

The Rabbit Hunt

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560

Hand-colored bird's-eye map of Antwerp with a star-shaped citadel, harbor ships, and four figures in costume at the bottom.

View of Antwerp from Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Joris Hoefnagel, 1572-94

Engraving of a group of draped Roman-style men with a horse, a tree and a dagger, gathered in an outdoor scene.

Group of Roman Figures

Master IQV, ca. 1542-45

Engraved courtyard view of the Rubenshuis in Antwerp with a three-arched gate, statues, and a medallion portrait above.

View of the Rubenshuis in Antwerp

Jacobus Harrewijn, 1699-1732

Engraved view of a baroque courtyard with an ornate gateway, statues, and a portrait medallion above, Antwerp.

View of the Garden of the Rubenshuis, Antwerp

Jacobus Harrewijn, 1699-1732

Pen drawing of visitors in 1830s dress viewing framed prints in a gallery, with men in top hats and women in bonnets.

The Public at an Exhibition

Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1831

Black and white print of an old town skyline with twin church towers, gabled houses, and a round tower over open meadow.

View of an Old Town with a Church and High Gabled Houses

Johann Gottfried Schadow, n.d.