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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,048 works

Drawn circular portrait of a man in a buttoned garment, framed by decorative scrollwork and inscribed lettering.

Portrait of Rinaldo Orsino, Archbishop of Florence (1474-1508)

Bernardino Capitelli, early 17th century

Poster of a figure in tricorn hat with sword beside fireworks and a flag, advertising a Philadelphia Sunday Press Washington

Philadelphia Sunday Press, July 5

George Reiter Brill, 1896

Poster for the Philadelphia Sunday Press showing a woman in a red hat and striped dress beside bare branches, with feature li

Philadelphia Sunday Press, November 15

George Reiter Brill, second half 19th century

Poster with two cyclists beside bicycles, a route map from Constantinople to Peking, and text promoting Across Asia on a Bicy

The Century, Across Asia on a Bicycle, May

A. W. B. Lincoln, 1894

Etched portrait of an elderly bearded man with a bald head, hands clasped over a book, wrapped in a draped cloak.

Portrait of Samuel Palmer

Charles West Cope, 1884

Watercolor interior of a Gothic bower with stained glass windows, a seated woman in white, and a framed portrait on the wall.

Lea Castle, Worcestershire, View in Bower, looking North

John Carter, ca. 1816

Watercolor of a Gothic library interior with a seated reader, bookcases, a globe, and tall arched windows.

Lea Castle, View in the Library, Looking East

John Carter, ca. 1816

Watercolor interior showing a woman in a pink gown reclining on a sofa in a striped room beside a flower vase.

Woman in Pink Reclining on a Canape

Theodore Lebrun, 1819

Pen and wash drawing of the Marriage at Cana banquet with seated guests, servants, musicians and stone water jars under an ar

Marriage at Cana

Andreas Goeding, 1619

Engraving of a woman in a white headdress at a Gothic doorway and a young man in a cloak on steps below.

Anne Page and Slender (Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)

the elder Samuel William Reynolds, 1829

Pen and wash drawing of seated Jupiter handing a cup to standing Ganymede among clouds, with blue-grey tones and white highli

Jupiter and Ganymede

Johan Carl Loth, 1645-98

Study Sheet with a Portrait of Carl Julius Senff and Two Italian Women Walking

August Ferdinand Hopfgarten, 19th century

Pen and ink study of angels above a crowd of figures receiving alms, with a classical urn at right, on tan paper.

Saint Elisabeth of Portugal Giving Alms to the Poor

Daniel Gran, 1710-57

Pen and wash drawing of Susanna seated nude with two elders beside her under a tree, a city and spire behind.

Susanna and the Elders

Augustin Medow, 1622-60

Pen and brown ink sketch sheet with nude figure studies, a Bacchus-like youth with grapes, and several head studies.

Figure and head-studies (including Bacchus) (recto); four main figure studies repeated from the recto (verso)

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, 1745-1815

Watercolor drawing of an ornate gothic interior elevation with a seated king statue in a central niche, candelabra, and heral

Interior Elevation of Reims Cathedral with a Statue of King Louis I

Charles Percier, 1815

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a Gothic-style interior with draped canopies and a central statue of a seated king.

Interior Elevation of Reims Cathedral with a Statue of King Louis II

Charles Percier, 1815

Colored elevation drawing of a Gothic cathedral wall with a blue draped royal box, gilded ornament, and seated kings in niche

Elevation of Reims Cathedral with the Royal Box for the Coronation of Louis XVIII

Charles Percier, 1815

Etching of massive ancient Roman stone walls and arcade beside a church tower, with figures and horsemen in a street.

Veduta degli avanzi del Foro di Nerva, l'arcade et la muraille (The Forum of Augustus [erroneously called the Forum o…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1757

Hand-colored print of the Crucifixion with three crosses, angels, a crowd of soldiers and mourners, and a gilded border.

Calvary, from Life of the Virgin and Christ

Francesco Rosselli, 1490-1500

Watercolor night scene of a man with clasped hands and a woman in white pointing at a starry sky under a moon.

Nocturnal Landscape with Two Figures (design for an engraved book illustration)

Henry Corbould, 1807-44

Engraving of a workshop where men ink and print copper plates at benches and presses, with prints hung to dry on the wall.

The Workshop of an Engraver [Sculptura in Aes], plate 19 from Nova Reperta

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, ca. 1600

Woodcut of a skeleton grabbing a merchant clutching money bags, with ship masts and rigging behind them.

The Merchant, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Hand-colored print of a ragged man in a green coat reading shipping posters for New York by a harbor with masts.

Outward Bound (Dublin)

Erskine Nicol, ca. 1860

Hand-colored print of a man in straw hat beside a sign advertising emigrant sailings from New York to Dublin, with ships' mas

Homeward Bound (New York)

Erskine Nicol, ca. 1860

Grey wash drawing of a woman at a harpsichord with two flautists and a musician, under an allegorical cloud scene.

A Musical Gathering

Samuel Wale, 18th century

Drawing of a woman in a wide-brimmed hat seated at a café table by a window, with a second woman behind her.

Portrait of a Woman Seated at a Table

Will Houghton, ca. 1896

Pencil design drawing of a classical funerary urn with a draped female figure holding a skull and the words Memento Mori.

Suggestions for Urns

L. V. Grave, 18th century

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns, struck by soldiers in an arched interior with onlookers and dogs on a tiled floor.

Christ Crowned with Thorns from The Passion

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Mezzotint of a crowded life drawing class with a nude male model posed before artists sketching at easels under a hanging lam

The Life Class of the Vienna Academy

Johann Jacobé, 1790