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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,349 works

Engraving of Christ seated and crowned with thorns while soldiers mock him beneath a brick archway with a town view.

The Crowning with Thorns, from "The Passion of Christ"

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Engraved design of a tiered urn with garland swags, tassels, and a stepped pedestal base.

Design for a vase decorated with garlands

Jean Charles Delafosse, 18th century

Engraved title page with an urn wrapped in garlands, a shell fountain below, and two hunters beside the pedestal.

Title page from Cinquieme Livre de Trophées

Jean Charles Delafosse, 18th century

Engraved print of an egg caddy with four cups on a stand, with a plan view of the tray below.

Egg Caddy

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Engraved design print of a neoclassical hanging ceiling lamp with urn-shaped body and two side lamps, labeled Japann Lamp.

Japan lamp for ceiling

Matthew Boulton, ca. 1790

Engraving of a kneeling young man embraced by a bending older woman, with cattle, a pond and a thatched cottage behind them.

The Prodigal Son (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

John Everett Millais, 1864

Grey ink and wash drawing of a bearded man, a veiled woman, a kneeling figure and a torch in a stone interior.

Witch of Endor

Ary Scheffer, 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental vase with two female figure handles and a garland, within a ruled border.

Design for Vase

Jacques Francois Joseph Saly, mid-18th century

Pencil sketch of Mars with a rearing horse, a winged Victory figure behind him, and a veiled figure on the right.

Mars Crowned by Victory and Listening to Moderation

Antoine-Jean Gros, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of The Last Supper with apostles around a long table under a draped curtain.

The Last Supper

Master of the Egmont Albums, 16th century

Hand-colored caricature of an elderly antiquarian in pink coat examining a classical bust through a magnifying glass.

An Antiquarian

Frederick George Byron, October 23, 1789

Hand-colored caricature of four elderly gentlemen in wigs peering at a reclining nude painting on an easel in a classical int

Connoisseurs

Thomas Rowlandson, June 20, 1799

Etching of a robed man before a sacrificial fire, with burning books, demons and allegorical figures in clouds above.

Shakespeare - Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

James Gillray, June 20, 1789

Chiaroscuro print of Diogenes seated reading a book beside a plucked hen, in olive and tan tones.

Diogenes, seated before his barrel, reading from a book, a plucked hen standing behind him at right

Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1527-30

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns, hands bound, holding a reed, with two men beside him against a radiating halo.

Christ Crowned with Thorns (copy)

H. Johnston, 1671

Engraving of a laurel-crowned man in robes looking at a tablet of geometric shapes beside a stone pedestal and column.

Apelles standing profile looking at a tablet of geometric figures

Nicoletto da Modena, 1500-1510

Diary page with pen-and-ink floor plan of Tarrytown house additions and numbered list of drawings and fees, 1864.

A. J. Davis "Diary"

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1829-82

Scrapbook page with two architectural floor plans, a President's House study and a plan for four government departments aroun

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook VIII

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1835-92

Watercolor architectural drawing of a Gothic-style front door with glazed tracery panels beneath a pointed stone arch.

Front Door for Whitby, William P. Chapman House, Rye, New York

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1853

Pencil and wash drawing of Gothic window tracery with a central rose design, lancet arches and quatrefoil ornament.

Design for window tracery for Chapman - full size

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1853-55

Lithograph of a Roman rider on horseback before classical columns, with a kneeling petitioner and soldiers in a crowd.

The Justice of Trajan, plate for l'Album des Salons

Jules Robert Pierre Joseph Challamel, 1840

Etching of a man leading a donkey by lantern light through a dark night landscape, with a veiled woman riding the donkey.

The Flight into Egypt: a Night Piece

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Etching of a gnarled pollard willow with a lion at its base and a kneeling bearded man in the lower right landscape.

St. Jerome beside a Pollard Willow

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Etching of a bearded man in a wide hat and fur-trimmed cloak writing at a desk beside stacked books.

Cornelis Claesz Anslo, Mennonite Preacher

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Watercolor design of an ornate gilt gas lamp with a glass globe, fluted base and scroll handles, on cream paper.

Design for a Gas Lamp with Gilt Base and Glass Globe

Guérard, 19th century

Watercolor elevation of a spiral staircase lighthouse with smoking fire at the top, flanked by walls and distant ships.

Design for a Lighthouse (Margate?)

Debenne, ca. 1815

Color poster titled Tribune showing a woman in a yellow hat dropping a letter into a red mailbox, with Sunday fiction text be

Tribune

George Reiter Brill, late 19th century

Poster for the Tribune Sunday edition showing a dark-haired woman holding a red poppy among red poppies on a green background

Tribune, Sunday

George Reiter Brill, late 19th-early 20th century

Watercolor design of an ornate gilded candelabra with six candles, putti, and jeweled base on a pale ground.

Design for a Candelabra

Aimé Chenavard, 1810-38

Pencil and chalk drawing of a woman in a lace bonnet seated with a young fair-haired boy leaning against her.

Mrs. Papendiek and Her Son

Thomas Lawrence, 1789