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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,156 works

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

Ceiling Design

Frederick Sang, 1868

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

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

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

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

Engraving of Sistine Chapel ceiling figures: Libyan Sibyl, Prophet Daniel, and Jesse, David and Solomon in arched spandrels.

Portion of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with the Libyan Sibyl, Prophet Daniel, Jesse, David, and Solomon, from S…

Cherubino Alberti, 1577 (republished in 1628)

Engraving of muscular angels carrying a column, sponge and ladder across clouds in an arched composition.

Group from the Last Judgment, Angels Carrying the Column of the Flagellation and the Sponge and Ladder of the Crucifi…

Domenico del Barbiere, 16th century

Engraving of muscular nude and draped figures and apostles in a dense Last Judgment-style group, after Michelangelo.

Group from Last Judgment, St. Bartholomew, St. Peter, and other Apostles

Domenico del Barbiere, n.d.

Engraving of the Conversion of Saul: a rearing horse, falling soldiers on a hill, and God and angels in clouds above.

Conversion of Saul, from Michelangelo's fresco in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican

Nicolas Béatrizet, ca. 1545-60

Engraving of Judith handing Holofernes' head to a maidservant, with his body lying inside the tent at left.

Judith passing the head of Holofernes to her maidservant, the decapitated Holofernes inside the tent at left

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of nude trumpeting angels on clouds, some holding open books, after Michelangelo's Last Judgment.

Trumpeting Angels from The Last Judgment, after Michelangelo

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1530-66

Ink and wash drawing of cavalry soldiers resting in a camp with horses, a wagon, and tents in the distance.

Cavalry Men at Rest

Georg Philipp Rugendas, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pen and blue wash drawing of mounted riders and a fallen figure in the foreground, with a walled city on a hill behind.

The Conversion of St. Paul

Melchior Bocksberger, 16th century

Engraving of Saint Peter's crucifixion upside down on a cross, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd watching on a hillside.

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, after Michelangelo's frescoes in the Pauline Chapel, Vatican Palace

Michele Lucchese, 1550-60

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bearded man in a turban and long robe standing with one hand at his waist.

Standing Oriental Figure

Rembrandt van Rijn, 17th century

Pencil sketch of a draped female figure with a wreath, with looped drapery lines and handwritten notes at right.

Drawing for Spencer's Fairie Queene

Alfred George Stevens, ca. 1855

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a brimmed top hat, long coat and buckled shoes, on paper with a blue border.

Man in broad brimmed hat (sketchbook page)

Thomas Stothard, 1775-1815

Seated man in circular medallion (design for a book illustration)

Thomas Stothard, late 18th-mid-19th century

Watercolor study of butterflies, moths, a grasshopper, caterpillars and beetles scattered on a pale ground, dated 1664.

Insects, Butterflies, and a Grasshopper

Jan van Kessel, 1664

Engraving of the Marriage of the Virgin: a priest joins a couple under a glowing dove in a columned temple, with onlookers on

Marriage of the Virgin

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1525-26

Pen and wash design of a marbled monument with three inscribed urns on top and text panels on a stepped base.

Design for a Monument to the Three Wives of the First Earl of Guilford, at Wroxton, Oxfordshire

Joseph Wilton, 1783

Watercolor design of a carved Gothic-style staircase with two children descending and a woman in a gold gown.

Design for a Jacobean-style Staircase (recto); Architectural Element Design (verso)

Matthew Digby Wyatt, ca. 1867

Pen and wash design for an oval ceiling with garlands, putti, a central rosette and small circular medallions on a green grou

Design for a Ceiling

James Wyatt, 18th-19th century

Drawing of a gilded neoclassical mirror frame with two griffins on top, laurel swags, and urn motifs.

Design for a Mirror

James Wyatt, mid-18th-early 19th century

Etched oval self-portrait of a bearded man with curly hair, plumed cap and lace collar, shaded with fine crosshatching.

Self-Portrait with Plumed Cap and Lowered Sabre

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634

Etching of a man on a horse before a ruined arched building, with a boy, a dog, and figures on a staircase.

The Good Samaritan

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat and cloak, looking toward the viewer beside a wooden chair.

Clement de Jonghe, Printseller

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Etching of mourners gathered around a body beside a stone tomb under a dark, hatched sky, with a figure on a ladder at left.

The Entombment

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1654