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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Etching of a busy Venetian waterfront with figures on the quay, moored sailing boats, a gondola and palazzi.

The Riva, No. 1 (The Riva)

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a Venetian quay with strolling figures, stone steps to the water, moored boats and palazzo facades.

The Riva, No. 2

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Brown etching of a loose street scene with buildings, a central rounded structure and sketched figures.

Glass Furnace: Murano (Murano - Glass Furnace)

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of woven lobster pots and baskets on a sandy beach with grass tufts and a distant sea horizon.

Lobster Pots (Lobster Pots - Selsea Bill)

James McNeill Whistler, [1880-81]

Etching of moored sailing boats with tall masts along a waterfront, with small figures walking on a quay in the foreground.

Little Dordrecht

James McNeill Whistler, 1885-86

Etching of a cluttered old-clothes shop interior with hanging garments, a chair, and figures near the doorway.

Old-Clothes Shop, No. 2 (Rag Shop)

James McNeill Whistler, [1884-86]

Etching of a furniture shop front with awnings and chairs and cabinets displayed outside, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Furniture Shop

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a street with shopfronts, a barber sign, a street lamp, and figures near a dark archway.

The Barber's (The Barber's Shop, Chelsea)

James McNeill Whistler, [1886-95]

A Lion in Profile Facing to the Left ("Leo")

Giulio Romano, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of several figures: a man with a staff and dog, a seated woman, a standing woman with a rosary, and othe

Studies for Standing and Seated Figures

Salvator Rosa, 1634-45

Red chalk drawing of a sea battle with ornate galleys, spear-carrying soldiers and rowers, and sails in the distance.

The Sea Battle in the Gulf of Morbihan

Taddeo Zuccari, 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of a church interior with tall columns, vaulted arches, a distant altar and small figures in period dres

Church Interior

Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern, 1791

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat reading among a crowd of onlookers, with handwritten French inscriptions above.

The Title to the French Set

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Watercolor landscape of a peasant family on a dirt road, grazing cattle under oaks, and a distant church tower.

Peasant Family in a Landscape

Johann Friedrich Nagel, late 18th-19th century

Watercolor of Austrian soldiers and horses in a hillside military camp, with tents and officers on a rise under a cloudy sky.

Austrian Soldiers

Wilhelm von Kobell, late 18th-19th century

Watercolor of a mountain valley with a rushing river, boulders, conifers, and a snow-capped peak in the distance.

Mountain Valley

Thomas Ender, early 19th-mid 19th century

Etching of a street with old buildings, a horse-drawn cart, a street lamp, a bare tree and a wooden fence.

Temple (The Temple)

James McNeill Whistler, [1880-81]

Etching of a row of steamboats moored on a river, with a small bridge at the right edge and streaked sky above.

Steamboat Fleet

James McNeill Whistler, [1875]

Loose etched sketch of a Paris greengrocer's shop with heaped vegetables, two women shoppers and a child in a doorway.

Fruit-Shop, Paris (Greengrocer's Shop, Paris)

James McNeill Whistler, 1892-93

Watercolor landscape of a windmill over a grain field, with a farmer leading oxen and a woman with a basket in the foreground

Landscape

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1785

Watercolor of a seated woman in striped headscarf and embroidered apron spinning, with a pencil sketch of a veiled woman besi

Neapolitan Woman (recto); Study for an Interior (verso)

Karl Wilhelm Freiherr von Heideck, late 18th-19th century

Woodcut print of women seated in a room with a book, needlework and a basket of fruit, inscribed IOSE. SAL. 1557.

Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sor…

Giuseppe Salviati, 1557

Etching of a dying bearded man in bed supported by a richly dressed king, with courtiers watching in period costume.

Allegory of Painting (The Death of Leonardo da Vinci)

Giuseppe Cades, ca. 1780-99

Painted landscape of a ruined castle on a forested hilltop above a river, with a stone bridge and horse cart.

View of Kynsburg over the Weistritz River Valley in Silesia

Johann Heinrich Bleuler, late 18th-19th century

Watercolor of a rocky arch framing a valley, with sheep and a sleeping shepherd on a grassy path below.

Rocky Landscape with Sleeping Shepherd

Philip Heinrich Dunker, 1817

Grey wash drawing of a village street with gabled houses, a church tower, a large tree and two figures.

Village Street Scene with a Church

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, 1777

Pen and brown wash drawing of a reclining figure, a skull, and a ruined monument with a standing figure and a distant city.

Allegory of the Transience of Life

Christian Richter, 1618

Grey wash drawing of figures on a wooden bridge by willows, a rowboat on a canal, and a farmhouse under cloudy sky.

View of a Bridge in the Dutch Countryside with Figures

Nicolaas Wicart, mid-18th-early 19th century

Watercolor of a great tit with black cap and yellow breast perched on a bare branch against a pale background.

A Great Titmouse (Parus major) Perched on a Branch

Pieter Withoos, late 17th century

Pencil drawing of a large tree beside a villa with a balcony, with a rocky cliff and distant mountains on the right.

Landscape with a Tree in front of a Villa

Eduard Gaertner, 1801-77