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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,958 works

Engraving of an 18th-century woman in a floral gown and feathered hairstyle, with a man kissing her hand in a doorway.

Les Adieux (The Farewells), from Le Monument du Costume

Restif de La Bretonne, 1777

Engraved 18th-century interior of a man in a satin robe attended by servants, with gentlemen and a dog nearby.

The Morning Toilet (La Petite Toilette), from "Le Monument du Costume"

Pietro Antonio Martini, 1745-97

Engraved portrait of Pope Sixtus V seated on a throne in papal robes, with two putti and a Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Pope Sixtus V

Pietro Facchetti, 1585

Pencil drawing of three women with upswept hair and earrings, the central woman wearing a white lace collar.

Portrait of Frau von Oppen and Her Two Daughters

Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1835

Watercolor of a standing woman in a headscarf, white apron and red sleeves, beside a brown jug on a stone ledge.

Italian Woman

Edgar Degas, ca. 1856-57

Grisaille drawing of a woman with a flower wreath before a mirror held by a winged-helmet figure, with irises beside her.

The Mirror of Venus, or L'Art et Vie (Art and Life)

Walter Crane, ca. 1890

Watercolor of a ship's aft deck with cable machinery, winches, rigging and crew members under a cloudy sky.

Deck of Great Eastern, Aft: the Paying-out Machinery

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Sailors struggle with a tangled cable on a ship deck at night, lit by lanterns, with rigging and smokestack in the dark backg

A Night Scene. The Cable Entangled and Nearly Broken, July 18th, 1866

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Drawing of anchored sailing ships and a settlement by hills, seen from a steamship deck with men at the railing.

The Settlement and Church of Heart's Content, Newfoundland

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Watercolor of a Newfoundland village with wooden houses, fences, pigs, chickens, and a tall telegraph pole.

First Telegraph House at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, 1866

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Crowd of men cheering and tossing hats outside white wooden houses, with a telegraph tower in the background.

September 8th at Heart's Content, the day of the successful termination of the work of laying, recovering, completing…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Engraved landscape of a castle above trees, with a shepherdess and goats, a man with a dog, and a fisherman by a stream.

Sieben Gegenden aus Salzburg und Berchtesgaden Geordnet nach den sieben Tagen der Woche, verbunden durch zwey allegor…

Ferdinand Olivier, 1823

Contribution Receipt of the Special American Hospital in Paris for Wounds of the Face and Jaw

Auguste Rodin, 1916

Engraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth I holding an orb and scepter, wearing a crown and large ruff, with Latin text.

Queen Elizabeth I

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1592

Engraving of a warrior seizing an elderly man at an altar while women flee and a youth lies dead in a burning colonnaded hall

The Sack of Troy-Pyrrhus Killing Priam

Pierre Lombart, before 1654

Hand-colored sketch of a man in a green coat leaning over a woman in a white dress with blue trim in a room.

Design for "Hooking and Eyeing," a wood engraving published in "Punch" (recto); Sketch of two women and a man (verso)

John Leech, 1851

Pencil sketch of classical figures: a draped woman, cherubs on clouds, a helmeted warrior and a reclining figure with a shiel

Scene with Classical Figures

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pen sketch of a theatre stage with Gothic scenery and a figure painting, with a handwritten letter signed by Pugin below.

Letter with Sketch of Artist Painting Stage Scenery

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, March 1831

Pen drawing of bound Christ at a column, flanked by two kneeling praying figures, with scrolls and an arched architectural fr

Christ at the Column

Delli brothers, ca. 1440-70

Lithograph of a salon orchestra with cellist, pianist, singers and seated audience, with a cat in the foreground.

An Orchestra in a Fashionable Residence; plate 8 from the series, Les Comédiens de Société, published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, April 20, 1858

Hand-colored chinoiserie print of figures on a bamboo bridge, parasols, garlands and flowering vines in soft pastel tones.

Chinoiserie, from "Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790-99

Etching of a half-dressed woman with two children and bearded men near spears, a shield, horses and a tent.

Half-dressed Nymph with two children, surrounded by four men, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Brown wash drawing of travelers gathered beneath a rock arch with sandstone cliffs and pine trees in the background.

Travelers at the Rock Arch in the Uttewalder Grund

Johann Gottfried Jentzsch, 1804

Watercolor of a striped hot air balloon rising over a crowd, carriages, and houses at Lord's Cricket Ground, ca. 1839.

Balloon Ascending Near the Entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, 1839

Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie, ca. 1839

Ink and grey wash drawing of a blacksmith with tongs at an anvil while an assistant raises a hammer in a smoky forge.

A Blacksmith

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Engraving of a woman in a headdress cradling a reclining man's head beside a tree, birds, and plants in a landscape.

Samson and Delilah

Master ES, 15th century

Engraving of a long-haired wild woman seated on a rock beside a unicorn, with flowers and grass in the foreground.

Playing Card, with Wild Woman and Unicorn

Master ES, 15th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a workshop with craftsmen, hanging scale pans, copper pots and a kneeling man at a brazier.

The Maker of Scales

Jean-Michel Moreau, ca. 1763

Engraving of a young man in a plumed hat holding a skull, pointing with one hand, rendered in fine hatched lines.

Young Man with a Skull

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1519

Engraving of a wandering family and beggars on a road with a dog, a child holding an owl, and a castle in the distance.

The Beggars (Eulenspiegel)

Lucas van Leyden, 1520