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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,952 works

Engraving of soldiers crossing a river on a pontoon bridge toward a walled town, with winged allegorical figures above.

The Battle of Mühlberg with the army of Charles V crossing the Elbe River

Enea Vico, 1551

Engraving of a Bacchic procession with elephants, camels, and lions moving through a colonnaded hall, attended by nude revele

The Indian Triumph of Bacchus

Enea Vico, ca. 1542

Watercolor drawing of an allegorical ceiling design with winged figures, a nude woman, and musicians among clouds under a sun

Allegorical Design for a Ceiling Fresco

Francesco Albani, 1650-1700

Etching of St. Nicholas of Bari in an interior with draped bed, kneeling figure and reclining figure, with handwritten notes.

St. Nicholas of Bari

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved page of six sibyl figures in architectural niches, each with a Latin inscription beneath.

The Persian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved page of six sibyl figures in architectural niches, each with a Latin inscription below.

The Libyan Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraving page with six panels of standing sibyl figures in architectural niches, each with a Latin inscription below.

The Delphic Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraving page with six panels of female sibyl figures in architectural niches, each with a Latin caption below.

The Cumaean Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved page of six sibyl figures in architectural niches, with Latin captions beneath each print.

The Eritrean Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved panel of the Samian Sibyl holding a sword in a ruined arcade, with a child beside her; part of a six-panel sheet.

The Samian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Page of six engraved panels showing draped female figures in architectural settings, with Latin captions below each image.

The Cumean Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved print page with six panels of robed female figures among ruins, including a sibyl striking a stone wall.

The Hellespontine Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved print of a draped female figure, the Phrygian Sibyl, beside a column and broken masonry with Latin caption.

The Phrygian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Page of six engraved prints of Sibyl figures with Latin captions; lower left shows the Tiburtine Sibyl with a crown of thorns

The Tiburtine Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved page of six sibyl prints; the lower center figure carries a cross wrapped in a crown of thorns.

The Epirian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraving of a partly draped woman holding a staff and a crown of thorns, from a page of six sibyl prints.

The Colophonian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a town square with a tiered fountain, a clock tower, a crowd, oxen and carts.

A View of the Piazza del Duomo, Messina, with the Fountain of Orion, the Cathedral to the right

Willem Schellinks, late 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a crowded street before a colonnaded building, with figures, a horse, a dog and a tent.

An Italian City with a Crowd Watching Actors in an Outdoor Theater

Hendrik Verschuring, 1642-90

Graphite drawing of a woman's head turned upward with a wistful gaze, short wavy hair, on tan paper.

Head of a Woman Looking Up

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, 1800-1862

Grey ink and wash drawing of ruined stone buildings and boulders on a rocky hillside under a pale sky.

View of Bomarzo

Horatius de Hooch, 17th century

Museum page of three engravings: a seated woman with a standing child, a winged angel, and a reclining woman nursing beside a

The Virgin and the Young Christ

Marcantonio Raimondi, n.d.

Young Man and Old Woman

Jacob Matham, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a winged angel above a prone figure, with saints and a seated Christ figure in clouds above.

Saint Michael

Josef Christ, 1732-88

Grey wash drawing of a robed churchman among a crowd, with two flying cherubs above in an arched composition.

Saint Carl Borromäus

Melchior Steidl, late 17th-18th century

Gray wash drawing of the Good Shepherd standing on a globe with a lamb, cherubs, a dragon and a radiant IHS monogram.

The Good Shepherd

Gottfried Eichler the Younger, 1715-70

Grey wash drawing of Christ holding a cross above clouds, with angels, skeletons and falling figures in the lower corners.

Christ as Judge

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1708-74

Drawing of a robed priest giving last rites to plague victims beneath hovering angels and cherubs, with columns behind.

Saint Carl Borromäus Giving Extreme Unction to the Plague-Stricken

Johann Daniel Herz the Elder, 1700-1754

Brown ink drawing of a helmeted Roman warrior raising a spear beside a sword and shield on a rocky ledge.

Roman Warriors

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1700-1767

Pen and blue wash drawing of a battle on a bridge, with an angel above holding a cross in a radiant sunburst.

Constantine's Battle at the Milvian Bridge

Georg Philipp Rugendas, 1722

Pen drawing of ruined Roman buildings and arcades behind trees, with small figures in the foreground landscape.

Ruins of the Imperial Palaces in Rome

Joseph Anton Koch, 1810

Brown wash drawing of a Swiss farmyard with a timber farmhouse, woodpile, dog, chickens, and large shade trees.

Swiss Farm ('Hirtenhof')

Robert Zünd, 19th-20th century

Pen and ink sheet of studies showing a Madonna and child, a bearded old man, and draped standing and seated figures.

Sheet of Studies

Anthony van Dyck, 1621-27

Engraved portrait of a young woman with curled hair leaning on a balustrade holding flowers, with a formal garden behind.

Portrait of Mary Stuart

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Engraving of the prophet Daniel seated on an ornate throne, holding an open book, with Italian verse below.

The Prophet Daniel, from "Prophets and Sibyls"

Francesco Rosselli, 1480-90

Engraving of the Madonna nursing the Christ Child seated against a large tree, with a landscape behind them.

The Madonna nursing the Christ Child at the foot of a tree

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1502-3

Engraving of a battle with armored soldiers on rearing horses, spears raised, and fallen warriors in a forest.

A battle of soldiers some on horseback

Master of, ca. 1510-1520

Engraving of mourners carrying Christ's body to a rocky tomb, with three crosses on a hill and an inscription on a stone bloc

The Entombment of Christ

Andrea Mantegna, before 1475

Engraving of Joseph gesturing among two seated men and a bowl of fruit, with a figure in shadow behind.

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharoah's Chief Butler and Baker

Jusepe de Ribera, 1766-67

Etching of a bearded turbaned man seated with a shirtless youth, an animal skull and open book in the foreground, trees and r

Magician with four Figures near a smoking Altar, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-52

Brown wash drawing of a craggy rock cliff with fissures, topped by trees and foliage.

Rocky Cliff

Johann Christian Reinhart, 18th-19th century

Pen drawing of a draped standing figure raising a chalice, with horizontal hatching in the background.

Saint John the Evangelist

Andrea Schiavone

Pen and wash drawing of the west front of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, with colonnaded wings, domed pavilions and a ground plan.

West Front of Houghton Hall in Norfolk, Perspective

Thomas Ripley, 1735

Architectural elevation drawing of the west front of Houghton Hall, showing a central pedimented block, domes, and colonnaded

The West Front of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation

Isaac Ware, 1735

Ink and wash floor plan of Houghton Hall with a central block, curved colonnades, and labeled service wings.

Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Ground Floor (Basement) Plan

Isaac Ware, 1735

Circular engraving of Mary Magdalen carried upward on clouds by winged angels, with radiating light rays.

Mary Magdalen carried to Heaven

Jean Mignon, ca. 1535-55

Engraving of women weaving, spinning and sewing in a classical interior with columns and a loom.

Women spinning, weaving and sewing

Master FG, 1540-50

Engraving of the Descent from the Cross with men on ladders lowering a body and mourning women gathered below.

Descent from the Cross

Master IQV, 1543

Engraving of muscular nude smiths hammering at an anvil in a stone forge, with cherubs tending tools in the foreground.

Vulcan's Forge

Engraving of a muscular nude man twisting over a pedestal, one arm raised, rendered in fine crosshatched lines.

Naked Figure leaning on a Pedestal

Juste de Juste, 1540-50

Pen and grey wash drawing of a reclining woman with a globe and a putto with a set square on an ornate pedestal.

Allegory of Geometry

Hans Krumpper, late 16th- early 17th century

Engraving of nude male figures interlocked in a stacked pyramid of dynamic poses over a hatched ground.

Pyramid of Men

Juste de Juste, 1540-50

Engraving of six nude male figures forming a pyramid, interlocking limbs and bodies stacked over a ledge.

Pyramid of six Men

Juste de Juste, 1540-50

Engraving of a draped woman holding an infant in an arched niche, with French inscription text below.

Virgin and Child in a Niche

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, mid 16th century

Engraving of the Nativity with the infant Christ on the ground, surrounded by kneeling figures, an elderly seated man, and an

The Nativity

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, ca. 1544-48

Engraving of a standing female saint with halo and palm frond, draped robes, in an octagonal niche.

A female Saint

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, 16th century

Engraved Nativity scene with the infant Christ, attending figures, and angels in dense crosshatched lines on a dark ground.

The Nativity

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, 1530-73

Engraving of the Virgin Mary rising above clouds with a halo and radiating light, an angel below her.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, ca. 1535-73

Engraving of the warrior Amphiaraus standing in a chariot with a spear, horses below, and soldiers fighting at upper right.

Amphiaraus

Domenico del Barbiere, 1540-50

Engraving of the crowned Virgin holding the Christ child in an arched niche, with a palm branch and French inscription below.

The Virgin and Child in a Niche

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, 1543

Engraving of monkeys dressed as people feasting at a table in a kitchen full of hanging hams and cooking pots.

The Fat Kitchen, from the series Monkeys

Pieter van der Borcht

Engraving of a busy town meat market with hanging carcasses, vendors at tables, shoppers, a porter, and dogs on cobblestones.

Meat Market (from the pair Meat Market and Vegetable Market)

Pieter van der Borcht, ca. 1575-1608

Engraving of a classical banquet in a columned hall, with seated guests, attendants pouring wine, and a relief frieze on the

The Banquet of Alexander

Domenico del Barbiere, 1540-50

Engraving of a winged allegorical figure on clouds blowing two trumpets with banners, labeled Gloria.

Fame

Domenico del Barbiere, 1540-50

Engraving of Saint Stephen kneeling amid a stoning crowd, with God and Christ and angels in clouds above a city.

The Stoning of Saint Stephen

Domenico del Barbiere