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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,048 works

A fencing master (recto); sketch of a man's head (verso)

Robert Dighton, 1790-1814

Watercolor sketch of a standing coachman in white jacket, red breeches and tall black boots, holding a hat and whip.

A coachman (recto); ships and rowboats (verso)

Robert Dighton, 1790-1814

Watercolor of a long columned interior with draped windows, chandeliers, and a nursemaid with children on a blue carpet.

Interior, Leningrad?

Charles de Brocktorff, ca. 1825

Watercolor lunette of a kneeling woman in pink, three crowned youths around her, and putti in floral garland borders.

Three Boys Save the Despairing Pamina from Suicide

Moritz von Schwind, 1864

Etching of a bearded older man in three-quarter view with a smaller sketched head study below.

Victor Hugo (three-quarter view)

Auguste Rodin, 1885

Grey wash drawing of an allegorical frontispiece with classical figures, flowers, putti and open books inscribed La Grammaire

Design for a Frontispiece

Bernard Picart, 1720

Ink and wash sketch of a seated man smoking a hookah beside a standing attendant, with tents and seated men behind.

The Croatian Portative Narguilé

Constantin Guys, 1855

Hand-coloured etching of a crowded hall with spectators around a carriage, under a sign reading Bullock's Museum of Natural C

Exhibition at Bullock's Museum of Bonaparte's Carriage Taken at Waterloo

Thomas Rowlandson, January 10, 1816

Major General Charles Lee

Alexander Hay Ritchie, 1860

Engraving of a bearded bagpiper in a turban leaning against a tree and playing bagpipes, dated 1514.

The Bagpiper

Albrecht Dürer, 1514

Etching of a bearded man with a lantern beside a pile of dead animals, a nude figure, a dog, and a tree.

Diogenes in search of an honest man

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645-47

Woodcut print of a standing nude, two embracing seated women, a reclining animal, and leafy foliage on cream paper.

Women, Animals, and Foliage

Paul Gauguin, 1898

Etching of a workshop interior with a seated writer, a large clay jar, a brick furnace and a flaming vessel hanging above.

Plate 45, Volume II of "Antiquités de la Grande-Grèce"

Francesco Piranesi, ca. 1807

Watercolor of three men in period costume talking on a dirt road under a cloudy sky, one with a tartan sash and feathered bon

Quentin Durward and the disguised Louis XI (recto); Study of male figure (verso)

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1825-26

Etching of a seated chained woman and standing figures beside a pile of bones, with bare trees and a cloudy sky.

Chained Woman and Other Figures Regarding a Pyre of Bones, from the "Capricci"

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1743

Design drawing of a blue coffered ceiling with six gilded medallions holding classical figures, with a cornice detail above.

Carved and Painted Ceiling with Six Figural Medallions, for Cleish Castle

John Gregory Crace, 19th century

Colored design drawing of an ornate ceiling with a central rose motif, fan supports at the corners, and heraldic shields.

Design for Ceiling with Two Portraits and Fan Supports at Corners

John Gregory Crace, 19th century

Costume Design for Lady with a Fan

Basil Crage, 1890-99

Brown ink design of a helmeted charioteer driving horses, framed by blank banners and a striped decorative border.

Design for Trade Card [The Sun Life Assurance Society]

Walter Crane, 1880-89

Watercolor design of an art gallery interior with a shopkeeper greeting a couple among paintings and sculptures.

Design for Trade Card for Samuel P. Avery

George Cruikshank, 1873

Etched trade card of Samuel P. Avery's Fine Art Room showing a shopkeeper with a couple among paintings and sculpture.

Trade Card for Samuel P. Avery--Fine Art Room

George Cruikshank, 1873

Pencil sketch in three horizontal bands of Chinese figures: seated officials, musicians with drums, dancers, and garden scene

Three Friezes of Chinese Figures

Isaac Robert Cruikshank, 1800-1856

Pencil sketch of a woman in a cloak speaking to a couple in period dress beside a large tree in a park.

In the Park

Thomas Dalziel, ca. 1859

Illuminated initial letter with a robed saint holding a crozier, framed by blue, red and gold foliate ornament.

Illuminated Initial "N"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Illuminated letter D with a haloed woman holding a palm frond and book, surrounded by red and blue foliage and decorative bor

Illuminated Initial "D"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Illuminated page with the word Charity in ornate lettering, a woman helping a kneeling man in a vignette, ivy and holly borde

Charity

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Illuminated chromolithograph titled Hope showing a reclining woman, two angels in a glowing halo, lilies, blossoms and butter

Hope

Freeman Gage Delamotte, January 1, 1864

A Yachtsman

the Younger Robert Dighton, 1806-65

Pencil sketch of an ornamental border with knights on horses and a dragon, framing a central panel with a man and woman.

Border design with knights, ladies and dragons (recto); Sketches for border elements (verso)

Richard Doyle, ca. 1855

Pencil and wash drawing of a seated man beside a writing desk, with bookshelves and a hanging scale in the study behind him.

Portrait of a Man, Seated in Front of a Writing Desk

Henry Edridge, 1795-1800