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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,956 works

Engraving of the Visitation with two women embracing before classical columns, a crowd, and a seated mother with infant.

The Visitation

Giorgio Ghisi, 1540-50

Watercolor design of a cushioned bench with a floral garland pattern and two bouquet-printed cushions with tassels.

Design for Cushioned Bench

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pencil design drawing of an ornate canopy bed with swagged drapery, carved posts, and a scrolled cornice.

Design for Bed with a Canopy

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen drawing of two Gothic-style wooden side chairs with pointed arch backs, shown side by side on a cream sheet.

Design for Two Gothic Chairs

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen drawing of four tufted upholstered armchairs and sofas with turned legs and brass casters on a pale sheet.

Designs for Four Upholstered Chairs

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen and ink elevation of a Gothic cabinet with pointed arches, slender columns, carved panels and pinnacles on blue-green pap

Design for a Gothic Cabinet

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Ink and wash design drawing of an ornate desk with scrolled carving, pierced panels and an arched architectural top.

Design for a Desk

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Watercolor design drawing of a desk with arched mirror, fluted columns and ornate scrolled crest on a wood floor.

Design for a Desk with Mirror

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Etching of a decorated ox led through a city street by mounted soldiers and crowds of pedestrians.

Marche du boeuf gras

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1750

Etching of four ornamental vases with putti and seated figures, signed Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1754.

The Four Vases

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1754

Etched trade card showing a shop interior with a draped curtain, merchandise, and figures at a counter, dated 1767.

Trade Card for Périer, Ironmonger

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Pen and watercolor design of a Gothic bay window with fan vaulting, tracery, and draped curtains with tassels.

Design for a Gothic Bay Window

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-1900

Pencil drawing of a bay window design with ornate scalloped valance, fringed curtains, and urn-topped finials.

Partial Design for Bay Window with Monogrammed Curtains

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-1900

Pen and wash design drawing of a four-poster bed with floral canopy valance, fluted posts, and fringed patterned coverlet.

Design for a Bed and Canopy

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-1917

Engraving of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling saint and a young boy, a curtain and column framing a distant mountain land

The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1555-56

Engraving of a nude Venus seated on a bed with a bearded Vulcan behind her and three winged putti attending.

Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed and Three Putti

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1550s

Engraving of Vulcan hammering at an anvil beside reclining Venus, with winged cupids working around a glowing forge.

Venus and Vulcan at the Forge

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1550s

Watercolor of a 19th-century drawing room with a harp, a seated woman in white, and French doors opening onto a mountain view

"Drawing Room of the Plas. Spa"

Julien Muère, 1838

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, sleeping Cupid in the foreground, and a city in the distance.

Venus Pricked by the Thorns of a Rose Bush; Cupid Asleep in the Foreground

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, winged Cupid resting in front, figures running toward a castle behind.

Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid res…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Pen drawing of dancing figures, a winged putto with garland, and ornamental lattice and scroll borders on paper.

Design with Dancing Figures

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pen sketch sheet of Egyptian-style figures, a harp, winged ornaments and architectural fragments arranged across the page.

Sketches of Miscellaneous Egyptian Details and Figures (recto and verso)

William Pitts, 1805-40

Grey wash sketch of a horizontal foliate border with scrolls, rosettes and acanthus leaves on cream paper.

Sketch of Foliate Decoration

William Pitts, 1805-40

Woodcut of executioners killing prisoners on a rocky hillside, with a crowned ruler and onlookers in the foreground and a dis

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of a bearded face composed of farming tools such as a sickle, rake, and baskets, with Italian verse below.

Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Agriculture

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, after 1569

Engraved composite bust made of cooking utensils such as ladles, a colander and chains, with Latin title and Italian verse.

The Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Cooking

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, after 1569

Studies of a Stag

Stefano da Verona, 1430s

Engraving of a crowded vegetable market by a harbor, with women selling produce from baskets and boats on the shore.

Vegetable Market, from the pair Meat Market and Vegetable Market

Pieter van der Borcht, ca. 1575-1608

Engraving of Vulcan at an anvil with Venus reclining beside him, attended by cupids in a forge.

Venus and Vulcan at the Forge

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1555

Hand-colored panoramic print of New York's waterfront from the East River, with sailing ships and a steamboat in the foregrou

Panoramic View of New York, from the East River

Robert Havell Jr., 1844

Engraving of a hunter with a spear carrying a woman with a bow on his shoulders, with hunting dogs and a retinue in the backg

Allegory of the Hunt; a hunter holding a large spear carrying a woman (Diana?) on his shoulders; five hunting dogs in…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre on a rock with the Muses making music around him, a winged horse and cherubs above.

Apollo and the Muses

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1557

Lithograph of a captive man strapped to a galloping horse while warriors with rifles pursue through a dark forest.

Simon Butler (Indian Trails, vol. II)

Jean-François Millet, 1852

Engraving of three seated women in classical robes spinning thread, with a distaff, spindle, and loom beside them.

The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558-59

Engraving of an allegory of birth: a woman in bed, a standing woman holding an infant, winged putti, and a chariot in the sky

Allegory of Birth

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558

Pastel head study of a man in a white wig and cravat, turned right, on a blue-grey background.

Préparation for a Portrait of Louis XV (1710-1774)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca.1745

Engraving of a seated man in prison gesturing at a window, with two armored soldiers and a ruined city view outside.

Caius Marius in Prison, two Cimbrian soldiers entering his cell

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560-69

Engraving in an oval frame of four male mythological figures, Hercules, Bacchus, Pan and Saturn, reclining together.

Hercules, Bacchus, Pan, and Saturn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Woodcut of an angel with keys standing over a dragon, with a walled city and mountains in the background.

The Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1498

Watercolor drawing of a curved staircase with green twisted balusters, carved wooden handrail and ornate moulded details.

Detail of Staircase at [Gerrard?] House, Gerrard Street, Soho, London

Charles James Richardson, 1825-71

Watercolor design of two heraldic coats of arms with crowns, draped banners and a laurel branch, above an unfinished cartouch

Design for a Coat of Arms

J. S. Pearse, 1858

Etching of Piazza Navona in Rome with an obelisk, a fountain, a domed church, and crowds of people in the square.

The Piazza Navona, Rome, above the ruins of the Circus of Domitian, the Church of Sant Agnese to the right, Bernini's…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1760-78

Gray wash drawing of an allegorical tree with putti, lions, chariots, pouring figures and a city skyline behind.

An Allegory of the Union of the House of Orange and the Wittelsbach Family (Design for a Title Page of a Thesis)

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Grey wash drawing of a shipwreck on a stormy shore, with survivors salvaging goods from the surf and a cart on the sand.

A Ship Wrecked on a Shore on a Stormy Night, with Survivors Salvaging Their Goods

Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1695-1708

Watercolor botanical study of a perennial pea plant with pink flowers, green leaves, buds and curling tendrils.

Perennial Pea

Jan Jansz. van der Vinne, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a rocky mountain river landscape with a hermit in a tree, a chapel, and a wooden cross.

A Mountainous River Landscape with a Hermit and a Chapel

Matthijs Bril the Younger, ca. 1570-83

Engraving in an oval frame of Venus and Cupid reclining with two goddesses and a putto amid draped cloth.

Venus and Cupid, Two Other Goddesses, and a Putto, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of Ceres and two goddesses seated on clouds with a putto, in an oval frame, after Primaticcio.

Ceres Seated on Clouds with Two Goddesses and Two Putti, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primatic…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving in an oval frame of four classical gods, two holding tridents, one helmeted, one reclining with draped fabric.

Pluto, Neptune, Minerva and Apollo, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of three seated muses reading a book beneath a winged putto playing a lyre in an arched cruciform frame.

Three Muses and a Putto with a Lyre, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Pri…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of three seated muses reading a book beneath a winged putto playing a lyre in an arched upper panel.

Three Muses and a putto above with a lyre, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of three seated draped women reading books beneath a flying winged putto in an arched frame.

Three Muses and a Gesturing Putto, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of three seated muses playing instruments beneath a winged putto with cymbals in an arched niche.

Three Muses and a Putto with Cymbals, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Pr…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of Apollo with a lyre and Pan beside him, with a flying putto blowing a horn in an arched panel above.

Apollo, Pan, and a Putto Blowing a Horn, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of a winged female allegorical figure in flowing robes holding a large sphere beside a niche.

Female Winged Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558/1559

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded older man with curly hair, set in an ornate architectural cartouche with Latin inscriptio

Portrait of Michelangelo

Giorgio Ghisi, after 1564

Engraving of a reclining nude bearded hero beside a club and lion skin, with a harbor city and mountains behind him.

Hercules Resting from His Labors

Giorgio Ghisi, 1567

Engraving of Angelica and Medoro embracing beneath a tree while Medoro carves their names, with Cupid and a distant city.

Angelica and Medoro; the couple embracing, Medoro carving their names in the bark of a tree; Cupid holding a torch in…

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1570

Engraving of the prophet Joel seated reading a scroll, with putti and architectural framing, after the Sistine Chapel ceiling

The Prophet Joel; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the Eritrean Sibyl seated with an open book, surrounded by putti and architectural framing, after Michelangelo's

The Eritrean Sibyl; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the Eritrean Sibyl seated with an open book, flanked by putti and architectural arches, after Michelangelo.

The Eritrean Sibyl, from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the seated Persian Sibyl reading a book, framed by nude figures and architecture, after the Sistine Chapel ceili

The Persian Sibyl, from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of a seated sibyl reading a book in an arched frame, with nude figures and a putto around her.

The Persian Sibyl; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the seated Delphic Sibyl holding a scroll, flanked by nude figures and putti in an architectural frame.

The Delphic Sibyl; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75