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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,456 works

Etching of an owl with spread wings above a crouching cat, with a cloaked figure bending at right.

Plate 73 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Feline pantomime' (Gatesca pantomima)

Francisco Goya, 1814-15 (published 1863)

Etching of a large ostrich fleeing across rocky ground as dogs chase it, with a rider and second ostrich behind.

Ostrich hunt, from 'Animal hunts' (Chasses à différents animaux)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1654

Pencil drawing of a village on an estuary with trees, figures, a rowing boat on the shore, and a distant sailboat under a clo

Village on an estuary, with a rowing boat on the shore

Pieter de Molijn, 17th century

Etching of a young woman, an old man, a monkey and an ox beside a tree and a stone trough with horse heads.

Young shepherdess and old man with a monkey, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Etching of an empty oval cartouche framed by ducks, reeds and rocks, with an inscription at lower left.

Cartouche Framed by Ducks and Weeds

Stefano Della Bella, 1647

Pen and wash drawing of an allegorical battle scene with armed men, a nude figure, and a winged figure in clouds.

Allegory of the Battle at Selimbar (October 28, 1599)

Hans von Aachen, 1552-1616

Engraving of a sower scattering seed over rocky ground, with birds in flight and feeding and pine trees at left.

The Sower (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Etched decorative frieze with acanthus scrolls, a lion head, an eagle, putti, and a centaur and satyr below.

Rinceaux with Eagle and Lion, plate 15 from "Decorative friezes and foliage" (Ornamenti di fregi e fogliami)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1648

Sepia etching of Pembury Mill, Kent, showing a waterwheel, a miller with sacks inside the mill, and a sleeping dog.

Pembury Mill, Kent, part III, plate 12 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner, June 10, 1808

Engraving of nude figures and grotesque creatures in a fantastical landscape, illustrating Lust from The Seven Deadly Sins.

Lust (Luxuria) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter van der Heyden, 1558

Etched frontispiece with a circular inscription cartouche, two eagles amid scrolling foliage, and dragon heads at the base.

Frontispiece: Ornamenti o Grottesche

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1653

Engraved print of Christ preaching to a crowd, surrounded by eight vignettes illustrating the Beatitudes in an ornate border.

The Eight Beatitudes

Hendrick Goltzius, ca. 1578

Engraving contrasting Moses with tablets of the law and Christ holding a cross, with a skeleton, animals and an open Gospel b

Allegory of the Salvation of Mankind from "Allegory of the Resurrection and the Salvation," a pair

Hieronymus Wierix, ca. 1586

Engraving of a cartouche with putti, laurel garlands and a diagram of planetary orbits ringed by stars, with the motto Mens A

The Copernican System

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1639

Engraving of an allegorical woman with a mirror and eagle, with a garden, a healing scene and a city behind her.

Sight (Visus), from "The Five Senses"

Maerten de Vos, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a smiling fisherman with a pole, net and basket, framed by rococo scrollwork with fish and a heron.

Caricatures of a Fish and a Bird Peddler in Ornamental Frames

Johann Esaias Nilson, 1735-88

Etching of an empty ornamental cartouche flanked by two nymphs, with scrolls, foliage and a duck at the base.

Cartouche with Duck and Nymphs

Stefano Della Bella, 1647

Pen and blue wash drawing of a white eagle perched on a branch between floral garlands, in a horizontal ornamental band.

Ornament with Eagle and Garlands

Aug. Strubeker, 1833

Engraving of a bound, bearded giant lying on rocks while an eagle attacks his torso, with a snake and clouds nearby.

Tityus Punished in Hell

Cornelis Cort, 1566

Etched frontispiece showing the crowned Virgin Mary between two figures, a dove above, cherub heads in clouds, and printed ti

Frontispiece for Saltero

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1633

Etching of a male duck swimming among reeds, one wing raised, with ripples across the water surface.

Duck

Félix Bracquemond, 1850-1914

Etching of owls perched on a gnarled tree and rocky ledge, one with spread wings, in a sparse woodland setting.

Frontispiece, from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Etching of an oval screen with a rebus of emblems including an eagle, ships, a barrel, scales and a sea nymph.

Screen with Rebus of Fortune

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1639

Etching of a man with a cane beside ducks on a rainy riverbank, with a boat and willows across the water.

Les Canards l'ont bien passée

Félix Bracquemond, 1856

Etching of a square stone tower topped by a double-headed eagle and crown, flanked by two crowned female allegorical figures.

The Square Tower

Claude Lorrain, 1637

Oval fan with an engraved rebus of cupids, an eagle, ships and scales, edged in coloured silk fringe on a wooden handle.

A fan with a rebus on Love on one side Fortune on the other

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1639

Etching of a nude woman seated on a swing bar beside a large dark bird with spread wings, with a vertical post between them.

Schaukel, from the series Radierte Skizzen

Max Klinger, n.d.

Etching of a woman in a hat leaning on a wire fence, watching pheasants and birds on grass beneath trees.

In the Zoological Garden

Félix Bracquemond, ca. 1873

Sheet of many ornamental design fragments including cherubs, scrollwork, a heraldic crest, floral medallions and an architect

Seventeen Ornamental Designs for the Pless House or Chateau

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

Etching of a nude man slumped on a rocky ledge with a vulture perched behind him and a staff on the ground.

Sterbender Wanderer, from the series Radierte Skizzen

Max Klinger, n.d.