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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,956 works

Pen and ink drawing of three people in period dress seated on a stone bench near a tree, with ruins and distant travelers.

The bird to others flew, illustration to "A Love Song"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1887

Pen and ink drawing of a tavern interior with a man in a doorway, a woman in an apron, and a seated man in a hat.

"Will had her to the wine," illustration to "Phillada Flouts Me"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1886

Grey wash drawing of wooded sand dunes with a windmill on a ridge at left and a pair of small figures under clouds.

Wooded Dune Landscape near Haarlem, with Windmill and a Pair of Figures

Gerrit Jan Michaëlis, late 18th-mid-19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a riverside city with church spires, towers, a bridge and a sailboat, with handwritten labels.

View of Mâcon Seen from the East

Jan Peeters, mid-17th-late 17th century

Engraving of George Washington rising on clouds toward winged figures, with mourners and an eagle below a memorial inscriptio

Apotheosis of Washington

John James Barralet, 1800-1802

An Angel Holding a Carafe on a Plate

David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville, n.d.

Lithograph of a dead man in a nightshirt sprawled on a floor beside a bed, with another body in shadow.

Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril, 1834, Plate 24 of l'Association mensuelle

Honoré Daumier, July 1834

Engraving of Adam and Eve mourning dead Abel in a rocky landscape, with a lion, lamb, altar fire, and God in clouds.

Adam and Eve Lamenting the Death of Abel

Cornelis Cort, 1564

Engraved print of a gallery wall crowded with classical busts, statues, urns and medallions arranged in tiers.

La Galerie de Girardon

Nicolas Chevalier, 18th century

Watercolor sketch of a castle courtyard with arched galleries, a balcony of figures, and two horses in the foreground.

Lea Castle, View in Tilt-Court, Facing North

John Carter, ca. 1816

Watercolor interior of a gothic-style drawing room with a vaulted ceiling, fireplace, framed paintings and blue sofas.

Drawing Room of Lea Castle, Looking West

John Carter, ca. 1816

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate fireplace mantelpiece with caryatids, a central mirror, and a putto statue.

Design for Mantlepiece

Antonio Francisco Baeta, late 19th century

Pen and grey wash design drawing of a fireplace chimneypiece with scroll frieze, acanthus brackets, and dimension notes.

Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers, 1743-1800

Etched plate with Latin inscriptions from Roman monuments inside ornate scrolled borders, with an Italian plate index below.

Iscrizione nei lati del Ponte di Rimino (Inscription on the side of the Rimini Bridge) followed by an index of plates…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Dedication to Giovanni Bottari (Dédicace à Bottari), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi I…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Etched interior of an ancient temple vestibule with Corinthian columns, niche statues, and coffered vaults receding into dept

Vestibule of an ancient temple... (Vestibolo d'antico Tempio...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1743-50

Etching of a moored fishing boat with hanging sail and rigging on calm water, with a domed building at right.

Fishing Boat

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Etching of a Venetian street seen through a dark archway, with figures walking and a seated worker in a shop at right.

Fish Shop, Venice

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Architectural elevation of a fireplace with swag and rosette decoration set within paneled walls and a dentil cornice.

Design for a Chimneypiece in the Garden Hall, Manresa House, Roehampton, Surrey

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1760

Etching of two men in white robes and turbans using a cape to lure a charging bull in a bullring.

Plate 6 from "La Tauromaquia": The Moors make a different play in the ring calling the bull with their burnous

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a plumed rider on a horse lancing a charging bull in an arena, with shaded sky behind.

Plate 10 from "La Tauromaquia": Charles V spearing a bull in the ring at Valladolid

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a black bull surrounded by armed men with lances, with a fallen man on the ground in the foreground.

Plate 12 from "La Tauromaquia": The crowd hamstrings the bull with lances, sickles, banderillas and other arms

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bullfighter in white gripping a charging bull by the horns in an arena, from Goya's La Tauromaquia.

Plate 15 from "La Tauromaquia": The famous Martincho places the banderillas playing the bull with the movement of his…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a man vaulting over a charging bull in a bullring with a pole, spectators watching from the stands.

Plate 20 from "La Tauromaquia": The agility and audacity of Juanito Apiñani in [the ring] at Madrid

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a mounted bullfighter striking a bull in an arena while spectators watch from the stands behind a barrier.

Plate 23 from "La Tauromaquia": Mariano Ceballos, alias the Indian, kills the bull from his horse

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a picador on horseback with a pike facing a bull in an arena, with other riders and figures in the background.

Plate 27 from "La Tauromaquia": The celebrated picador, Fernando del Toro, draws the fierce beast on with his pike

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of horses grazing in a field beside a tree, with a village in the distance and a banner reading UN CHAMP.

Decoration for a Plate: A Field

Félix Bracquemond, 1870

Hand-colored print of a rainy city street with pedestrians, a red umbrella, and a small bucket vignette at lower left.

Decoration for a Plate: Rain

Félix Bracquemond, 1870

Etching with blue wash of a woman walking a riverside path at night beside street lamps, with a crescent moon and Notre Dame

Decoration for a Plate: Notre Dame

Félix Bracquemond, 1870

Pen drawing of an ornate bucket-shaped vessel with figural handle, garlands, and reclining river gods among reeds.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Interlaced Figures, on a Body Adorned with Bucrania, Garlands, and T…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Pen and brown ink design for a vessel with scrolled handle, a reclining river god and two putti on its body.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Non-Figural Interlaces, on a Body Adorned with a River God and Two P…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Watercolor drawing of a dancer in an ornate costume holding a tambourine and wand, with urns in the background.

Miss Horton as Morgana

Isaac Robert Cruikshank, 1830-44

Pen drawing of a bucket-like vessel with strapwork handle, its body decorated with dancing musician figures and garlands.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Strapwork, on a Body Adorned with Dancing and Music-Making Antique-S…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Pen and ink design drawing of an ornate vessel with a figural handle, garland, and a bearded satyr head.

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Two Interlaced Captives, on a Body Adorned with a Scroll, Garland, a…

Girolamo Genga, 1540-50

Engraving of a lion attacking a rearing horse inside an oval frame, with horizontal hatched background.

Lion Attacking a Horse, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Adamo Scultori, ca. 1540-80

Etching of a nude woman with long hair suspended upside down in a large spider web, with a small spider nearby.

Arachne

Otto H. Bacher, 1884

Etching of men seated at tables in an open café under an awning, with wine bottles and glasses on the tables.

Soupe à trois sous

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Engraving of a laureate emperor on a pedestal gesturing to an SPQR standard with an eagle, beside armored soldiers.

Emperor addressing his Soldiers

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1542-45

Engraving of two robed saints in a wooded landscape with a pig, a bird, a castle, and boats in the distance.

Saint John and Anthony in a Landscape

Master IQV, ca. 1544-45

Engraving of two saints in a landscape: a young man with a lamb beside a tree, and a bearded elder with a staff and pig.

Saint John and Saint Anthony

Master IQV, ca. 1542-45

Symmetrical geometric parterre pattern with green star and roundels on an aged album page, numbered 35.

Album containing 75 Drawings for Garden Trellises & Parterres

Jörg Rurfinger, ca. 1610-40

Engraving of Saint Thomas with a halo, holding a carpenter's square and a book, in a draped robe.

Saint Thomas

Master FVB, ca. 1490-1500

Engraving of a muscular bearded nude man gesturing toward a seated woman and cherub beside a fountain, with a boar.

Reuben [Genesis 49:3-4], from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Etching of a vaulted chamber with a stone staircase, skeletons, stacked skulls, clay jars, and a despairing man at right.

Prison Scene

Francesco Piranesi, n.d.

Etching of tall ruined Roman brick walls and arches with workers in the foreground and distant mountains under cloudy sky.

Veduta degli avanzi del Castro Pretorio nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli (View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1770

Engraving of nude muscular smiths hammering at an anvil in a stone forge, with cherubs in the foreground and arched walls beh

Vulcan's Forge

Master of the Story of Cadmus, ca. 1542-45

Mezzotint oval portrait of a bewigged clergyman in a dark robe and white collar, with Latin inscription below.

Cottonus Matheris (Cotton Mather)

Peter Pelham, 1728

Graphite sketch of a seated bearded male nude holding a staff beside a standing male nude seen from behind, on cream paper.

Seated and Standing Male Nudes, after photographs by Eugène Durieu

Eugène Delacroix, 1855

Etching of a Venetian canal with a moored gondola, stone steps, a crowd at a doorway, and an arched bridge.

Bridge of Sighs, Venice (First Plate)

Frank Duveneck, 1883

Watercolor of a waterfall in a rocky gorge with two figures in the foreground and a stone bridge in the distance.

A Bridge on the Aar, at the Foot of the Grimsel, in the Canton of Berne

Caspar Wolf, ca. 1775

Brown wash drawing of a hilly landscape with large gnarled trees, a road with travelers, and a distant river valley.

Hilly Landscape with Trees and a Road on the Right

Georg Heinrich Busse, 1833

Watercolor and pen drawing of a Gothic church interior with an ornate carved altarpiece, tall columns, and wooden pews.

Interior of Saint Severin Church in Erfurt

Carl Georg Anton Graeb, 1855

Pencil sketch of a Gothic church interior with a woman carrying a child, kneeling women, children, and monks.

Saint Elizabeth Carrying Her First-born Son to the Church

Ludwig Emil Grimm, ca. 1850

Night drawing of a moonlit river with sailing boats, dark trees on the right bank, and moon reflected on the water.

The River Elbe Downstream of Hamburg by Moonlight

Christian Ernst Morgenstern, ca. 1828

Watercolor drawing of a weathered timber watermill with a waterwheel, two small figures on a path, and a cloudy sky.

Watermill

Ernst Erwin Oehme, ca. 1870

Pencil drawing of a father embracing his barefoot son in a stone courtyard, with onlookers on a balcony and in doorways.

Return of the Prodigal Son

Friedrich von Olivier, 1830-35

The Artist's Children: Friedrich, Emil, and Ernst

Friedrich Preller the Elder, ca. 1848

Watercolor of a sunlit Gothic cloister with ribbed vaults, a kneeling nun, a crucifix and potted plants.

Cloisters in a Nunnery

Simon Quaglio, ca. 1835

Watercolor of large trees over a pastoral field with a rustic building, a shepherd with sheep, and a distant village.

Italian Landscape with Trees (recto)

Friedrich Salathé, 1815-21

Watercolor drawing of a Christ crucifixion altarpiece with six framing scenes from the life of Christ, including the Nativity

Christ on the Cross with Six Scenes from the Life of Christ

Eduard von Steinle, ca. 1850

Sepia ink and wash drawing of hunters on a rocky ledge under trees, overlooking a distant blue mountain valley.

Hunters in an Outlook on a Mountain

August Leopold Venus, ca. 1870

Page of nine small religious etchings including Holy Family scenes, with a green-tinted central print of the Virgin and Child

The Holy Family

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1538-42 (?)

Two versions of an etching of figures in robes reaching up toward quails flying overhead, a biblical scene.

Moses Showing the Quails to the Israelites

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1545

Etching of Moses with sheep beside a burning bush and a town on a hill, above a scene of men pushing a boat.

Moses and the Burning Bush

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1544-48