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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,956 works

Ink and wash drawing of a classical museum facade with domed pavilions, statues, and a horse-drawn carriage in front.

Design for a Museum or Repository

Stephen Riou, 1758

Pen and wash drawing of a Baroque fountain design with a shell niche, scrolled volutes, animal heads and a perched bird.

Fountain at the Villa Panfili, Italy

Stephen Riou, 1752

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate theatre interior with a decorated dome, tiered balconies, curtained boxes and a stage.

Interior of a Theatre

David Roberts, 1796-1864

Colored design for a Gothic stained glass window with five panels of Old Testament scenes and angels above.

Design for Old Testament Window

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ca. 1870

Pen and watercolor drawing of fishermen and boats on a seashore, with a small cottage and sailing ships in the distance.

Figures by the Seashore

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Rowlandson watercolor of a couple dining at a table with servants bringing plates, a dog beneath the cloth, and a folding scr

A Couple at Table with Servants

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of a rider struggling with a rearing white horse before an inn with onlookers.

Dr. Syntax with a Balky Horse Before an Inn

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a street with timber houses, a medieval gate, horses, a carriage and pedestrians.

City View with Medieval Gate (perhaps York)

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded man in a tricorn hat leading two oxen pulling a cart along a rough road.

Going Sick to the Rear

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1815

Watercolor of a tailor sitting cross-legged pressing cloth in a cluttered interior, with a woman carrying bread and a dog nea

The Tailor

Thomas Rowlandson, 1814

Watercolor of a harbor at low tide with beached boats, small figures, cottages and sailboats on the water under clouds.

Harbor scene with the tide out, and beached boats

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of a busy barber's shop with lathered customers, wigs, dogs fighting on the floor, and a reading m

The Barber's Shop

Thomas Rowlandson, 1785-1805

Pen and watercolor drawing of a river town with sailing boats, castle ruins, a stone arched bridge, and hills.

Carmarthen Castle, Wales

Thomas Rowlandson, 1797

Watercolor of a woman in a white dress blown by wind in a boat while men and onlookers on a dock react nearby.

Easterly Winds

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1810

Pen and watercolor drawing of mounted cavalrymen raising curved sabres, one holding a pink standard, against a cloudy sky.

Unused study for a plate to "Hungarian and Highland Broadsword Exercise" Feb. 12, 1799

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1799

Gray wash drawing of a jockey waving his cap on a galloping horse while a man watches on the right.

How to Escape Losing

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1791

Pen and ink drawing of a busy harbor with sailing ships, rowboats, and figures on the quay.

Harbor scene

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Pen and ink drawing of oxen and a horse hauling a felled log past trees and rolling hills.

Landscape with Oxen and Felled Tree

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Watercolor of a river ford with rowing boats, a crowd by a thatched inn, a horse and cart, and a sailing ship on the water.

The Inn at the Ford

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Watercolor landscape of gnarled trees beside a rushing stream, with a frightened couple and a snake on a path.

Landscape with rushing stream and a couple on the bank, frightened by a snake

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Watercolor of travelers riding and mounting donkeys at a post beneath a stone archway, with onlookers and a dog.

Pleasure of a Poste aux Anes, from Sentimental Travels

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1821

Pencil sketch of figures gathered by a river with a boat, village and trees in the background.

"The Social Day" from the "World of Miniature"

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Busts of Two Women Wearing Fantastical Head-dresses

René Boyvin, n.d.

Engraving of Christ standing before a seated high priest at night, with torch-bearing figures, soldiers, and a city tower beh

Christ before Caiphas, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Engraving of Christ standing before a seated ruler under a canopy, with soldiers and onlookers and a city view through an arc

Christ before Pilate, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1596

Pen and wash drawing of a draped woman leaning toward a seated male nude viewed from behind.

Woman Talking to a Seated Male Nude

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Pencil sketch of an interior with a fireplace, curtained bed, and an elderly man in a gown beside a dog.

Dr. Syntax Loses His Wig

Thomas Rowlandson, 1820

Pencil sketch of men dining at a table in a vaulted interior with dogs on the floor and a hearth at right.

Dr. Syntax and the Superannuated Fox Hunters

Thomas Rowlandson, 1820

Pen and grey wash drawing of witches stirring a cauldron with a horned devil and demons watching while men observe at left.

Study for "A charm for democracy, reviewed, analyzed, and destroyed January 1, 1799" (recto and verso)

Thomas Rowlandson, 1799

Pen and ink caricature of agitated men around an easel with a Revolutionary Pot, with speech balloons and a map of Ireland.

An Irish Howl

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1799

Pen and ink caricature of a rider on a horse loaded with saddlebags labeled Hastings and Wrongs, with handwritten verses.

The Q A loaded with the spoils of India and Britain, March 6, 1788

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1788

Pen sketch of a military review with marching soldiers, banners, mounted officers on horseback, and a crowd of onlookers.

A Military Review

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a dense tree cluster on a rolling hillside with woodland fading into the distance.

Wooded hillside with deer

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and ink study of a leaning tree with dense foliage beside a clearing, with smaller trees to the right.

Study of trees

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and grey wash drawing of a path past ruined stone walls and tall trees in a wooded landscape.

Wooded Landscape with Ruins

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and ink landscape drawing of rolling hills with a tower on the crest and large rocks in the foreground.

Hilly landscape with rocks

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pencil sketch of a seated woman drawing on a board while another woman leans over her shoulder.

The Drawing Lesson

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor street scene of St. Austell, Cornwall, with a church tower, shops, pedestrians, a horse and dogs.

St. Austle, Cornwall

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Watercolor of farm workers washing potatoes in a tub beside a cart of sacks, with children, a dog and poultry nearby.

Farming scene

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Watercolor landscape of a winding country road with riders, walkers, farm fields, a farmhouse and a distant church tower.

Landscape

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor tavern scene with a serving woman, seated men at a table, and a dog on the floor.

Tavern scene

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Colored drawing of fashionable people at a crowded public breakfast in a Bath assembly room, with plumed hats and tall window

The Comforts of Bath: A Public Breakfast

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1798

Engraving of nude Apollo shooting an arrow at a winged serpent, with muses and Cupids in the sky above.

Apollo standing at left shooting a python with an arrow, above to the left are the muses and at right on a cloud Cupi…

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of river-god Peneus reclining with daughter Daphne, a palm branch, and three nymphs carrying jars near a grotto.

Daphne embracing her father, the river-god Peneus, at the left three nymphs bring jars from "Story of Apollo and Daphne"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of bearded river gods pouring water from urns beside a grotto, consoling a grieving figure in a rocky landscape.

River gods consoling Peneus for the Loss of his Daughter, Daphne, from "Story of Apollo and Daphne"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Pen and wash drawing of a herd of deer resting beneath a large spreading oak tree in a wooded landscape.

Herd of deer under an oak tree

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Pen and ink sketch of a busy seaport with sailing ships, rowboats, dockworkers rolling barrels, and crowds on the quay.

Seaport

Thomas Rowlandson, 1792

Pen and ink drawing of a crowded harbor with masted ships, rowboats, figures and wooden wharf buildings.

Shipyard, Greenwich

Thomas Rowlandson, before 1791

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate carved sideboard with lion masks and scrolled brackets, with a plan below.

Design for Sideboard for Lord Falklane at Skutterskelfe, Yorkshire

Anthony Salvin, 1835

Pen drawing of river nymphs in reeds, a man with a fishing rod, and a cartoon GWR steam train in the background.

Father Thames and Henley Naiads (Cartoon published in Punch, February 26, 1898)

Linley Sambourne, Febuary 18, 1898

Watercolor design for a decorated ceiling with a central roundel of allegorical figures and ornate scrollwork borders.

Ceiling Design

Frederick Sang, 1868

Watercolor design of a painted ceiling with oval central panel, cherubs, clouds and floral panels, for Spencer House dining r

Ceiling of Dining Room, Spencer House, St. James Palace, London

Frederick Sang, ca. 1870

Pencil caricature drawing of a procession of exaggerated comic figures in top hats, a turban, and a small dog.

Caricatures

George Frederick Sargent, 1850-60

Pencil sketch of a woman with flowing hair carrying a tray of heads overhead, with loose drapery swirling about her legs.

Girl Carrying a Tray with Four Heads

William Bell Scott, ca. 1876

Ink and wash drawing of a seated woman with a book titled Repository for Rubbish, above a trash cart and goblin figures.

"Repository for Rubbish, vol. I, L.F.C 1828", Illustration for children's book

Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, 1828

Ink and wash landscape of a windswept tree on a hillside, with distant mountains and a grazing animal at left.

Landscape

Samuel Shelley, 1776-1808

Pencil and red chalk sketch of three figures from The Tempest within a decorative scrolled border.

Illustration to the Tempest: Caliban, Ferdinand and Ariel

Henry Courtney Selous, 1836

Pencil drawing of a baroque church facade with a tall ornate tower and spires, beside a street with gabled houses and small f

Church of St. John the Baptist at the Béguinage, Brussels

William Frome Smallwood, 1824-34

Design drawing of a neoclassical monument to Sir Walter Scott with columns, a seated figure, a lyre crest and an inscribed pe

Monument to Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

Charles Harriott Smith, after 1832

Pen and wash drawing of an elderly bespectacled man in a high collar writing with a quill at a desk.

Thomas Rowlandson, aged 70

John Thomas Smith, 1824

Pen and wash elevation drawing of a symmetrical classical government building with statues and a domed structure behind.

Drawing for Foreign Office, Westminster, for competition of 1857

Robert Smirke, 1857

Pencil drawing of Lake of Thun with steep mountains, a shoreline village with a church spire, and water reflections.

Lake of Thun looking North

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1820-67

Pencil design drawing of an ornate desk with scrolling foliage, reclining figures, putti, and a winged cupid on top.

Design for a Desk with Decorations from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

G. Clark Stanton, 1851

Engraving of Apollo chasing Daphne, who raises her arms, with a background scene of her transforming into a laurel tree.

Apollo chasing Daphne who throws her arms up, in the background at right shows the moment she turns in a laurel, from…

Master of the Die, 1530-60