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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,459 works

Etching of an elderly man in a cap seated with a small dog beside a stone doorway covered in climbing vines.

The Old Man and his Pomeranian Dog

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1817

Grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with tall trees, two figures by a small wooden bridge, and a hidden house.

Landscape with a House Hidden Between Trees and Two Men Near a Small Bridge

Franciscus Andreas Milatz, late 18th-early 19th century

Pencil sketch of a classical pedestal with an inscribed tablet, garland swags, lion figures and a winged bird.

Sketch of a Classical Pedestal

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

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

Young Man and Old Woman

Jacob Matham, n.d.

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

Ink drawing of a classical pedimented chimneypiece with garlands and an urn, with a floor plan below.

Chimney to the Parlour, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware, 1735

Circular etching of a ruined stone tower beside tall trees, with small figures on a path and rolling hills beyond.

Les Ruines a gauche

Engraving of an outdoor garden refreshment with a tiered table of dishes, elegant men, servants and a fruit garland border.

La Colation preparee dans un jardin

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Ink and wash elevation of a classical building's back façade with columned portico, arched ground floor, and cupola.

Elevation of Back Façade of the Kings House, Richmond, Surrey

Augustus Heckel, after 1727

Circular etching of ruined arches and walls by water, with a leaning tree on the right and a small seated figure in front.

Les Ruines au Fond

Etching of a ruined stepped Roman tomb with arched niches, vegetation, and small figures with a ladder at its base.

View of a large structure, remains of the Tomb of the Metelli on the Appian Way about five miles from Porta S. Sebast…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, published 1756-57

Etching of a rustic thatched hamlet beside a rocky stream, with trees, fallen logs and a small figure in the foreground.

The Hamlet on the Mountain Side

Allart van Everdingen, mid-17th century

Circular etching of a walled estate with a tower, trees, and a horseback rider on a path beside a pond.

Le Porte Balle assis

Engraving of a seated woman in a hat gazing into a hand mirror, with vessels and the word VANITAS on a shelf.

Vanity

Enea Vico, 1545-50

Pen and wash design for a ceiling with a central medallion of a seated female figure holding a celestial sphere.

Design for Ceiling with Allegorical Figure of Astronomy

Giovanni Battista Crespi, 1605-15

Circular etching of a wooded riverbank with tall trees, a fisherman at the water, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

L'Enclos

Engraving of a draped woman labeled Natura holding cords above reclining nude figures, with a hilly landscape behind.

Nature

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Circular etching of a landscape with a large tree at left, two horseback riders in the foreground, and rolling hills beyond.

Le Cavalier

Circular etching of a rural landscape with a farmhouse, wooded riverbank, and a figure with a dog near a tree stump.

Le Paysan et son chien

Engraving of winged old man Time measuring a globe with compasses beside an hourglass, with trees and hills behind.

Time

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a plowman being crowned by a cloaked figure while an eagle flies overhead and a woman raises her arms.

Predestination

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a kneeling nude woman bowing her head beside a ruined wooden shelter and a tree, with Latin text below.

Calamity

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a nude woman resting on a stone pedestal beside classical ruins, labeled Poenitentia, with a Latin inscription b

Penitence (Poenitentia)

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Engraving of a woman with a net and a leopard, with nets, a cage and a fish in a landscape.

Entrapment

Enea Vico, ca. 1545-50

Circular brown ink and wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a large tree, a road with figures, and a distant tower.

Wooded Landscape with Figures on a Road

Jacob van der Ulft, mid-17th-late 17th century

Circular pen and ink drawing of a rocky coast with a seated figure, an eagle, sailboats, and a distant town.

The Death of Aeschylus

Tobias Verhaecht, 1576-before 1606

Brown ink and wash drawing of a donkey standing with a draped saddle cloth, seen from behind, mounted in a blue and gold bord

Study of a Donkey

Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer, early 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned woman distributing gold from a chest to kneeling figures, with a raised sword and medieval

Kriemhild, in Mourning over Siegfried, Handing Out Treasures from the Nibelungen Hoard

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1854

Engraving of soldiers carrying helmets, shields, armor and vessels in a classical triumphal procession.

Triumph of Caesar: Soldiers carrying Trophies

Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1490