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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Reddish-brown ink drawing of a symmetrical scrolled ornamental border with central and end urns and leaf motifs.

Design for Panel Decoration

J. Hulme, 1828-40

Engraving of armored hunters fighting a rearing bear beside a tree, with other bears and spearmen in a wooded landscape.

Bear Hunt, from "Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium..."

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, 16th century

Engraving of a burning city with soldiers fighting, a fleeing family, and a nude goddess figure with cupids on the right.

The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Engraving of the Visitation with two women embracing before classical columns, a crowd, and a seated mother with infant.

The Visitation

Giorgio Ghisi, 1540-50

Watercolor design of a cushioned bench with a floral garland pattern and two bouquet-printed cushions with tassels.

Design for Cushioned Bench

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen drawing of two Gothic-style wooden side chairs with pointed arch backs, shown side by side on a cream sheet.

Design for Two Gothic Chairs

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Ink and wash design drawing of an ornate desk with scrolled carving, pierced panels and an arched architectural top.

Design for a Desk

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Watercolor design drawing of a desk with arched mirror, fluted columns and ornate scrolled crest on a wood floor.

Design for a Desk with Mirror

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Etching of a decorated ox led through a city street by mounted soldiers and crowds of pedestrians.

Marche du boeuf gras

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1750

Etched trade card showing a shop interior with a draped curtain, merchandise, and figures at a counter, dated 1767.

Trade Card for Périer, Ironmonger

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Pen and watercolor design of a Gothic bay window with fan vaulting, tracery, and draped curtains with tassels.

Design for a Gothic Bay Window

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-1900

Pencil drawing of a bay window design with ornate scalloped valance, fringed curtains, and urn-topped finials.

Partial Design for Bay Window with Monogrammed Curtains

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-1900

Engraving of Vulcan hammering at an anvil beside reclining Venus, with winged cupids working around a glowing forge.

Venus and Vulcan at the Forge

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1550s

Watercolor of a 19th-century drawing room with a harp, a seated woman in white, and French doors opening onto a mountain view

"Drawing Room of the Plas. Spa"

Julien Muère, 1838

Grey wash sketch of a horizontal foliate border with scrolls, rosettes and acanthus leaves on cream paper.

Sketch of Foliate Decoration

William Pitts, 1805-40

Studies of a Stag

Stefano da Verona, 1430s

Engraving of a crowded vegetable market by a harbor, with women selling produce from baskets and boats on the shore.

Vegetable Market, from the pair Meat Market and Vegetable Market

Pieter van der Borcht, ca. 1575-1608

Engraving of Vulcan at an anvil with Venus reclining beside him, attended by cupids in a forge.

Venus and Vulcan at the Forge

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1555

Hand-colored panoramic print of New York's waterfront from the East River, with sailing ships and a steamboat in the foregrou

Panoramic View of New York, from the East River

Robert Havell Jr., 1844

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre on a rock with the Muses making music around him, a winged horse and cherubs above.

Apollo and the Muses

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1557

Lithograph of a captive man strapped to a galloping horse while warriors with rifles pursue through a dark forest.

Simon Butler (Indian Trails, vol. II)

Jean-François Millet, 1852

Engraving of three seated women in classical robes spinning thread, with a distaff, spindle, and loom beside them.

The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558-59

Engraving of an allegory of birth: a woman in bed, a standing woman holding an infant, winged putti, and a chariot in the sky

Allegory of Birth

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558

Engraving of a seated man in prison gesturing at a window, with two armored soldiers and a ruined city view outside.

Caius Marius in Prison, two Cimbrian soldiers entering his cell

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560-69

Engraving in an oval frame of four male mythological figures, Hercules, Bacchus, Pan and Saturn, reclining together.

Hercules, Bacchus, Pan, and Saturn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Etching of Piazza Navona in Rome with an obelisk, a fountain, a domed church, and crowds of people in the square.

The Piazza Navona, Rome, above the ruins of the Circus of Domitian, the Church of Sant Agnese to the right, Bernini's…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1760-78

Grey wash drawing of a shipwreck on a stormy shore, with survivors salvaging goods from the surf and a cart on the sand.

A Ship Wrecked on a Shore on a Stormy Night, with Survivors Salvaging Their Goods

Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1695-1708

Pen and wash drawing of a rocky mountain river landscape with a hermit in a tree, a chapel, and a wooden cross.

A Mountainous River Landscape with a Hermit and a Chapel

Matthijs Bril the Younger, ca. 1570-83

Engraving in an oval frame of Venus and Cupid reclining with two goddesses and a putto amid draped cloth.

Venus and Cupid, Two Other Goddesses, and a Putto, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of Ceres and two goddesses seated on clouds with a putto, in an oval frame, after Primaticcio.

Ceres Seated on Clouds with Two Goddesses and Two Putti, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primatic…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s