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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,156 works

Etching of an Egyptian-style architectural design with sacred animals above, seated figures, sphinxes, and distant pyramids.

Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, e G…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769

Engraving of a warrior seizing an elderly man at an altar while women flee and a youth lies dead in a burning colonnaded hall

The Sack of Troy-Pyrrhus Killing Priam

Pierre Lombart, before 1654

Hand-colored sketch of a man in a green coat leaning over a woman in a white dress with blue trim in a room.

Design for "Hooking and Eyeing," a wood engraving published in "Punch" (recto); Sketch of two women and a man (verso)

John Leech, 1851

Pencil sketch of classical figures: a draped woman, cherubs on clouds, a helmeted warrior and a reclining figure with a shiel

Scene with Classical Figures

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pencil design for an ornamental frieze with a shell, scrolling acanthus leaves and a bearded satyr's head.

Design for Ornamental Frieze with Shell, Foliage and Satyr's Head (recto); Figural Studies (verso)

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pen sketch of a theatre stage with Gothic scenery and a figure painting, with a handwritten letter signed by Pugin below.

Letter with Sketch of Artist Painting Stage Scenery

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, March 1831

Pencil drawing of a classical rosette with acanthus leaves, petals and a central flower, with a scroll molding in the corner.

Study of a Classical Rosette

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Pencil study of classical armor, helmets, shields and a winged dragon in a semicircular decorative frieze.

Study of Classical Ornament and Detail

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Pencil drawing of a circular ceiling segment with a winged figure, garlands, acanthus scrolls, an urn and an SPQR tablet.

Segment of Circular Celing Vault, Palazzo Mattei, Rome

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Pen drawing of bound Christ at a column, flanked by two kneeling praying figures, with scrolls and an arched architectural fr

Christ at the Column

Delli brothers, ca. 1440-70

Lithograph of a salon orchestra with cellist, pianist, singers and seated audience, with a cat in the foreground.

An Orchestra in a Fashionable Residence; plate 8 from the series, Les Comédiens de Société, published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier, April 20, 1858

Hand-colored chinoiserie print of figures on a bamboo bridge, parasols, garlands and flowering vines in soft pastel tones.

Chinoiserie, from "Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790-99

Etching of a half-dressed woman with two children and bearded men near spears, a shield, horses and a tent.

Half-dressed Nymph with two children, surrounded by four men, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-50

Brown wash drawing of travelers gathered beneath a rock arch with sandstone cliffs and pine trees in the background.

Travelers at the Rock Arch in the Uttewalder Grund

Johann Gottfried Jentzsch, 1804

Watercolor of a striped hot air balloon rising over a crowd, carriages, and houses at Lord's Cricket Ground, ca. 1839.

Balloon Ascending Near the Entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, 1839

Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie, ca. 1839

Ink and grey wash drawing of a blacksmith with tongs at an anvil while an assistant raises a hammer in a smoky forge.

A Blacksmith

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Proposed Monument to John L. Carey of Baltimore

Samuel B. Wetherald, 1852-54

Engraving of a woman in a headdress cradling a reclining man's head beside a tree, birds, and plants in a landscape.

Samson and Delilah

Master ES, 15th century

Engraving of a long-haired wild woman seated on a rock beside a unicorn, with flowers and grass in the foreground.

Playing Card, with Wild Woman and Unicorn

Master ES, 15th century

Engraving of a crested heron standing beside curling leaf-ornament scrollwork on a pale background.

Leaf-ornament with a Heron

Master ES, 15th century

Etching of ruined Roman arches with coffered vaults, rubble, small figures and a church tower at left, by Piranesi.

The Basilica of Constantine (Veduta degli avanzi della Casa aurea di Nerone, detti volgarmente il Tempio della Pace),…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1757

Brown ink and wash drawing of a workshop with craftsmen, hanging scale pans, copper pots and a kneeling man at a brazier.

The Maker of Scales

Jean-Michel Moreau, ca. 1763

Engraving of a young man in a plumed hat holding a skull, pointing with one hand, rendered in fine hatched lines.

Young Man with a Skull

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1519

Engraving of a wandering family and beggars on a road with a dog, a child holding an owl, and a castle in the distance.

The Beggars (Eulenspiegel)

Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Woodcut of a standing bearded man in a hat and cloak holding a banner with a rampant lion, by Lucas van Leyden, 1517.

Dirk First Count of Holland

Lucas van Leyden, 1517

Engraving of Jael killing the sleeping Sisera with a tent peg while onlookers and soldiers watch in an arched interior.

Jael Killing Sisera, without ornamental frame

Lucas van Leyden, 1517

Engraving of Salome holding the head of John the Baptist on a platter at a banquet table with seated men in turbans.

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

Lucas van Leyden, 1514

Engraving of nude Adam and Eve in a wooded setting, Eve reaching toward Adam beneath a serpent and apple tree.

Fall of Man

Lucas van Leyden, 1530

Engraving of Adam and Eve beside the Tree of Knowledge with a serpent, an angel and a church in the background.

The Fall of Man

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1517

Engraving of kneeling Solomon before a flaming altar, with women, men, a cherub and ornate architectural frame.

Solomon's Idolatry [I Kings, 11:1-8]

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1517