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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pencil drawing of classical vase, hooded female figures with urns, nude women supporting a vase, and embracing figures in a n

A Vase and Classical Monuments Carved with Hooded Women Carrying Urns, Two Females Embracing Beneath a Vase and Two N…

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Etching of a woman in a headscarf leaning on a stone ledge, holding a pear beside an arched doorway.

Woman with a Pear

Ferdinand Bol, 17th century

Engraving of the Lamentation: Christ's body lies on the ground, supported by a man, with grieving women and a walled city beh

The Lamentation

Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, ca. 1475

Engraving of a knight on a rearing horse lancing a dragon, with a kneeling princess and lamb on a cliff above skulls.

St. George

Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, ca. 1480-90

Engraving of a sick man on a canopied bed attended by a physician and women, with a candle and shelves of vessels.

An allegory of sickness, man laying prostrate on a bed surrounded by figures

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate standing frame on tripod base, with a small sketched woman figure inside the frame.

Design for a Standing Frame

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Engraving of a crowd of soldiers and captives in a colonnaded hall, with spectators watching from an upper gallery.

The Mocking of the Prisoners

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

Engraving of two women in a boat on water, one holding an infant, beside a tree and grassy bank.

Danae and the infant Perseus cast out to sea by Acrisius

Giorgio Ghisi, 1543

Engraving of armored warriors on a riverbank, a kneeling figure reaching toward a bearded man, and a horse figure in the back

Sinon Deceiving the Trojans

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Engraving of Perseus with a severed head beside a winged figure, and draped nymphs among fruit trees in a garden.

Perseus in the Garden of the Hesperides

Cherubino Alberti, 1628

Engraving of a woman on a rearing white horse leaping into a river while women and children watch from the shore.

Cloelia on horseback crossing the Tiber

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1540-60

Engraving of nude figures swirling in a storm vortex, with lovers at the center and a robed figure on a ledge at right.

The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca

William Blake, ca. 1825-27

Etching of satyrs playing pipes on a rocky hillside with a winged horse above and a crowd of onlookers below.

Parnassus, frontispiece to Les Oeuvres de Scarron

Stefano Della Bella, 1649

Pen drawing of an ornate two-handled vase with a charioteer and two horses in a central panel, framed by scrolling foliate or

Design for a Vase

J. Hulme, 1828-40

Engraving of a burning city with soldiers fighting, a fleeing family, and a nude goddess figure with cupids on the right.

The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Engraving of the Visitation with two women embracing before classical columns, a crowd, and a seated mother with infant.

The Visitation

Giorgio Ghisi, 1540-50

Etching of a decorated ox led through a city street by mounted soldiers and crowds of pedestrians.

Marche du boeuf gras

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1750

Etching of four ornamental vases with putti and seated figures, signed Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1754.

The Four Vases

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1754

Watercolor of a 19th-century drawing room with a harp, a seated woman in white, and French doors opening onto a mountain view

"Drawing Room of the Plas. Spa"

Julien Muère, 1838

Woodcut of executioners killing prisoners on a rocky hillside, with a crowned ruler and onlookers in the foreground and a dis

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of a bearded face composed of farming tools such as a sickle, rake, and baskets, with Italian verse below.

Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Agriculture

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, after 1569

Engraving of a crowded vegetable market by a harbor, with women selling produce from baskets and boats on the shore.

Vegetable Market, from the pair Meat Market and Vegetable Market

Pieter van der Borcht, ca. 1575-1608

Engraving of a hunter with a spear carrying a woman with a bow on his shoulders, with hunting dogs and a retinue in the backg

Allegory of the Hunt; a hunter holding a large spear carrying a woman (Diana?) on his shoulders; five hunting dogs in…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Lithograph of a captive man strapped to a galloping horse while warriors with rifles pursue through a dark forest.

Simon Butler (Indian Trails, vol. II)

Jean-François Millet, 1852

Engraving of three seated women in classical robes spinning thread, with a distaff, spindle, and loom beside them.

The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558-59

Engraving of an allegory of birth: a woman in bed, a standing woman holding an infant, winged putti, and a chariot in the sky

Allegory of Birth

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558

Pastel head study of a man in a white wig and cravat, turned right, on a blue-grey background.

Préparation for a Portrait of Louis XV (1710-1774)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca.1745

Engraving of a seated man in prison gesturing at a window, with two armored soldiers and a ruined city view outside.

Caius Marius in Prison, two Cimbrian soldiers entering his cell

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560-69

Woodcut of an angel with keys standing over a dragon, with a walled city and mountains in the background.

The Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498

Gray wash drawing of an allegorical tree with putti, lions, chariots, pouring figures and a city skyline behind.

An Allegory of the Union of the House of Orange and the Wittelsbach Family (Design for a Title Page of a Thesis)

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93