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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,170 works

Grey wash drawing of peasants resting under a tree with cattle and sheep in a pastoral landscape.

Peasants with Cattle and Sheep

Adriaen van de Velde, mid-17th century

Engraved sheet of ornamental dagger hilts and scabbards with scrollwork, grotesque masks, and a globe medallion.

Daggars and scabbards, from "Military Ornament"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644

Pen and wash drawing of two figures embracing, one in flowing drapery, on blue-grey paper with billowing cloth behind.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Taddeo Zuccari, ca. 1550

Hand-colored print of Washington on a white horse under flags, greeted by women in gowns strewing flowers.

Washington's Reception by the Ladies on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N.J., April 1789, on His Way to New York to be…

Nathaniel Currier, 1845

Hand-colored print of Washington lifted to heaven by winged figures, with mourners kneeling at his tomb below.

Apotheosis of George Washington

Heinrich Weishaupt, 1830-50

Grey wash elevation of a neoclassical chimney piece with draped female supports and a frieze of a chariot procession.

Design for a Chimney Piece in the Gallery, now Dining Room, Harewood House, Yorkshire (Elevation)

Robert Adam, ca. 1769

Pen and grey wash drawing of classical ruins with Corinthian columns, a sarcophagus, a pyramid and an obelisk in a landscape.

Classical Landscape with Ruins (recto); Two men in Roman military dress (verso)

Robert Adam, 1755-57

Engraving of a man in dark coat stepping down stone stairs beside a flaming altar, with an allegorical woman and an eagle.

General Washington's Resignation

Alexander Lawson, 1799

Brown and white wash drawing of a standing bald man in flowing drapery, arms raised, on blue-grey paper.

Standing Male Draped Figure With His Hands Raised

Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, 1565-71

The Head and Shoulders of a Woman in Profile; Separate Studies of Her Head and Ear (recto); Fragment of Drapery Study…

Gregorio Pagani, 1592

Pencil sketch of a bearded prophet and a bishop above a cluster of angels in clouds, on aged paper.

A Bearded Prophet in Glory Attended by a Bishop, Two Other Male Saints, and Angels (Design for a Section of a Dome)

Giovanni Lanfranco, 1634-35

Watercolor of a seated man in a green coat conversing with a woman in a pink dress before drapery and an armchair.

Illustration to Vanity Fair, Chapter 1: "Jos and Becky"

William Makepeace Thackeray, ca. 1848

Watercolor sketch of a woman in a blue shawl and a man in a top hat beside a street lamp, with a faint figure at left.

Design for an illustration to Vanity Fair (recto); Sketch of young woman (verso)

William Makepeace Thackeray, ca. 1847

Pencil and red chalk drawing of a bearded man in a plumed hat and fur-trimmed coat, turned to the right.

Anonymous portrait

Francesco Bartolozzi, ca. 1794-1802

Pen drawing of a piper and two onlookers in a pastoral field with cattle, framed by handwritten verse lines.

Why then begin..., illustration to "A Bucolick or Discourse of Neatherds"

Edwin Austin Abbey, ca. 1880

Pen and ink sketch of a man dancing with a woman in a cape while a crowd with torches watches.

The jovial monarch caught Mrs. Russell's hand in his, and proceeded to dance, illustration to "A Castle in Spain: A N…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1880-83

Pen drawing of a cobbled street with timber buildings, a woman and a man in tricorn hat walking, figures by a wall and a ship

The Sunday Walk, illustration to "Sally in Our Alley"

Edwin Austin Abbey, ca. 1886

Pen drawing of a stable with a horse over a stall, a man stirring a bucket, and a standing man with a pitchfork.

And none knew why he fed them both with his own hands, illustration to "Quince"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1888

Pen drawing of a bookshop with a seated young man talking to an older bookseller, a ladder figure, and a woman by a window.

He went to Tonson, illustration to "The Noble Patron"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1888

Pen and ink drawing of harvesters resting by a haystack, with a standing woman holding a tool and a dog lying nearby.

The Harvesters, illustration to "The Leather Bottèl"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1887

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

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

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

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

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