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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,714 works

Red chalk drawing of figures playing lute and resting in a garden with domed buildings, flower pots and a fountain.

May (one of a series representing the labors of the months)

Jonas Umbach, 1690 or slightly earlier

Pen and wash drawing of a carriage with elegant passengers arriving at a hunt through a forest, with mounted riders and dogs.

The Arrival of the Princely Carriage at the Starting Point of the Hunt

Johann Elias Ridinger, ca. 1756

Pen and ink design for a neoclassical ceiling with central medallion, scrolls, garlands and rosettes, with light colour washe

Design for Ceiling of Ladies' Dressing Room at the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London

James Wyatt, ca. 1770

Ink and watercolor design for a neoclassical ceiling with central medallion, garlands, rosettes and pastel washes.

Design for the Ceiling of a Bedchamber at Goodwood House, Sussex

James Wyatt, ca. 1800

Pen drawing of a circular ceiling design with radiating fans, garland swags, and a central medallion, set on a grey album pag

Design for the Ceiling of the Supper Room at Curraghmore, County Waterford, Ireland

James Wyatt, ca. 1786-87

Pen and gray wash design for a neoclassical ceiling with an oval garland, central rosette, and foliate scrollwork on aged pap

Design for the Ceiling of a Bedchamber at Curraghmore, County Waterford, Ireland

James Wyatt, ca. 1786-87

Pen drawing of a symmetrical dining-room ceiling design with central fan medallion, garland swags, scrolled ornament and a pa

Design for a Dining-room Ceiling at Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire

James Wyatt, ca. 1770

Pen and wash design for a neoclassical drawing room ceiling with central rosette, garlands, and scrolled frieze.

Design for Drawing Room Ceiling, Castlecoole, County Fermanagh, Ireland

James Wyatt, ca. 1790-97

Colored ceiling design with geometric lattice, octagonal panels and winged figures in orange and gray washes on a page.

Design for Lobby Ceiling after Piranesi, Chamber Story, Castlecoole, County Fermanagh, Ireland

James Wyatt, ca. 1790-97

Colored architectural design of an aedicular altar with a column, gilded ornament, putti, and a bearded saint with a sword at

Design for an Aedicular Altar with St. Paul at the Left

Johann Georg Dirr, ca. 1745-60

Watercolor of a horse-drawn carriage on a tree-lined road overlooking a valley with grazing cattle and distant hills.

Sketchbook of a Journey to the Château d'Eu

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, 1811

Pencil drawing of a medieval church with a tall spire and stone walls, framed by trees and an open field.

The Aller Church in Sønderjyllands Amt (Denmark), seen from the North

Johan Christian Dahl, late 18th-19th century

Watercolor of a rainy cobbled courtyard seen through an archway, with a covered cart, horses, geese and townspeople.

View into the Courtyard of an Inn at Colmar

Eduard Gaertner, 1821-77

Sheet of pale sketches showing several studies of older men's heads in different poses, with small ear studies at the left ed

Studies of ten (?) heads and two ears (recto); Studies of three figures and a head (verso)

Gerard David, ca. 1498

Two pale-washed pencil floor plans on paper showing octagonal rooms, a library, drawing room, kitchen and porch.

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook III: Hut Cottages, Villas and Dwelling Houses, in Town and Country

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1825-38

Pencil and red chalk sketch of a woman in a plumed hat and ruffled collar, face turned to the left.

Portrait of Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby

Thomas Lawrence, 1790

Pen drawing of a kneeling penitent saint with a lion and open book beneath large trees, with a village in the distance.

The Penitent St. Jerome

Jost Amman, 1539-91

Watercolor perspective of a Gothic Revival stone villa with a tall tower, with two floor plans below.

Villa for Robert Donaldson, Fishkill Landing, New York (perspective and plans)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1834

Painted coastal scene of a stormy bay with a steamship, a white cottage, and a group of figures on a grassy slope.

Valentia, Ireland: From the Harbor, opposite Knight's-town, at the period of laying the Cable of 1857

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a snowy Newfoundland landscape with a two-story telegraph house, a telegraph pole, and two hunters with a dog.

Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Exterior View of the Telegraph House in 1857-58

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a rustic timber mess room with men gathered around a brick fireplace and a small white dog on the floor.

Telegraph House, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Interior View of the Mess Room, 1858

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a sailing warship with crew on deck and a whale surfacing in rough sea beside its hull.

H.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Workers move coiled telegraph cable on carts and winch it on a green frame inside a workshop with an open doorway.

The Reels of Gutta-percha Covered Conducting Wire Conveyed into Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of workers coiling cable in a large circular tank beneath pulleys and rigging in an industrial hall.

Coiling the Cable in the Large Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich,…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865

Watercolor of an old frigate hulk moored on the Thames beside a stone quay, with a cable and distant ships under cloudy sky.

The Cable Passed From the Works into the Hulk (the Old Frigate Iris) Lying in the Thames at Greenwich

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a large paddle steamer beside an old frigate with flags and rigging, a rowboat in the foreground.

The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hu…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865

Watercolor of men in top hats watching workers coil cable inside a dim iron ship hull lit by lanterns.

Coiling the Cable in the After-tank on Board the Great Eastern at Sheerness: Visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on M…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Decorative title page with sailors hauling ropes on a ship deck and a violinist on a capstan, framed by shell motifs.

The Great Eastern Weighing Anchor Off the Maplin Sands at the Nore, July 15, 1865

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a rocky Irish bay with cliffs, breaking waves, small figures in red on the shore, and seabirds.

Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking Seawards from the Point at Which the Cable Reaches the Shore of Ireland

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a bay with steamships and sailing boats, cliffs with figures and sheep at left, and hills under a cloudy sky.

Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline and Boats Laying the Earth Wire, July 21st, 1865

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66