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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Pen and ink study of ornamental scrollwork and garlands for a vault decoration, with faint pencil sketches at right.

Study for the Decoration of a Vault (recto); Faint Sketches of Ornamental Patterns (verso)

Mauro Antonio Tesi, mid-18th century

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

Pen and wash drawing of an architectural altar design with two winged angels seated on a cornice beneath a pediment.

Design for an Altar or Monument with Angels and Other Figures

Peter Candid, late 16th century

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

Pencil design sheet with a spread-winged eagle over a striped shield, a cherub on a sea horse panel, and a dedicatory inscrip

Designs for the ornaments and inscription on a testimonial urn

Thomas Fletcher, 1800-1866

Pencil design drawing of a classical water pitcher with acanthus scrollwork, leaf-decorated base, and scrolled handle on pape

Design for a water pitcher

Thomas Fletcher, ca. 1835

Engraving of ancient bronze lamps on chains beside a large urn decorated with cameo medallions of heads and masks.

Various Lamps and a vase encusted with cameos, from "Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamen…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1778

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

Ink and wash drawing of a classical chimney-piece with swags, tassels, scrolled pediment and an urn finial.

Design for Hall Chimney-piece, Charlemont House, Dublin

Sir William Chambers, 1762

Pen and wash design for a ceiling segment with laurel garlands, scrollwork, an oval cartouche, and two winged figures.

Design for Segment of an Octagonal Ceiling; Gower House, Whitehall, London

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1766-74

Ink and wash plan of an ornamental ceiling with a central oval medallion, garlands, and pink-tinted panels.

Half Plan of a Ceiling with an Oval Center and Semicircular Ends

Sir William Chambers, 1743-96

Pen and wash design for a gallery ceiling with a central circular medallion and scrolling ornamental corner panels.

Design for the Gallery ceiling, Richmond House, Whitehall, London

Sir William Chambers, 1760

Ink and wash drawing of three ornamental stucco frames with scrolls, rosettes and moldings around blank centers.

Design for Three Stucco Frames

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1750-55

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

Black chalk study on blue paper showing several views of an infant's head with curly hair.

Studies of the Head of an Infant (after a three-dimensional model)

Poppi, 1572-74

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

Etching of Doric temple ruins at Paestum with tall columns, overgrown trees on top, a horse and figures in the foreground.

View showing the remains of a large enclosure of columns..., from Différentes vues de quelques Restes de trois grands…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748