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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,354 works

Pen and watercolor design for a neoclassical mirror frame with laurel wreath, shell ornament and pale blue empty panel.

Design for a Mirror

John Yenn, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and watercolor design of a neoclassical fireplace with an oval mirror, garlands, and urn above a pink wall.

Design for a Chimneypiece

John Yenn, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and grey wash design for a tall pier-glass with a palmette frieze border, a classical urn at top and a laurel wreath belo

Design for a Pier-glass, of Tall Oblong Form, the Border a Palmette Frieze, the Termination an Urn

Sir William Chambers, 1740-1800

Pen and watercolor design for a mirror with a two-handled urn, laurel wreath and swags on a pale green ground.

Design for a Mirror Surmounted by a Vase

John Yenn, late 18th-early 19th century

Pencil and watercolor design drawing of an oval gilt mirror with ram's head, urn, and laurel swags against pink wall.

Design for an Oval Mirror

John Yenn, late 18th-early 19th century

Design for a a Mirror with a Rounded Top

John Yenn, late 18th-early 19th century

Hand-colored print of the Crucifixion with three crosses, angels, a crowd of soldiers and mourners, and a gilded border.

Calvary, from Life of the Virgin and Christ

Francesco Rosselli, 1490-1500

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo fireplace with an ornate carved mirror frame above the mantel.

Design for a Fireplace

Henry Cheere, mid-18th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of three panel designs with seated allegorical women, a harp player, a globe, and a cherub.

Design for Three Panels for a Library

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, 1745-85

Watercolor design elevation of a bronze fountain with marble backing, plus ornament and drinking cup detail studies.

Design for a Fountain to be Executed in Bronze with a Marble Slab at the Back

Kay Maude Coggin, ca. 1895

Watercolor night scene of a man with clasped hands and a woman in white pointing at a starry sky under a moon.

Nocturnal Landscape with Two Figures (design for an engraved book illustration)

Henry Corbould, 1807-44

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a Romanesque church doorway with zigzag moldings and columns, opening onto a dim interior.

Doorway, Heckingham Church

John Sell Cotman, 1816-18

Etching of two tall trees beside a shadowed hillside, with a distant church under a cloudy sky.

Souvenir of Italy

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1866

Pen and brown ink drawing of an ornate crucifix with Christ, flanked by three figures at its base.

Design for a Crucifix with the Virgin Mary, Saint Mary Magdalen, and Saint John

Polidoro da Caravaggio, n.d.

Etching of the ruined circular Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli with Corinthian columns above arched substructures and small fig

Altra V. del Tempio della Sibilla in Tivoli (Another view of the Temple of the Sibyl in Tivoli)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 18th century

Woodcut of a skeleton grabbing a merchant clutching money bags, with ship masts and rigging behind them.

The Merchant, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Hand-colored print of a ragged man in a green coat reading shipping posters for New York by a harbor with masts.

Outward Bound (Dublin)

Erskine Nicol, ca. 1860

Hand-colored print of a man in straw hat beside a sign advertising emigrant sailings from New York to Dublin, with ships' mas

Homeward Bound (New York)

Erskine Nicol, ca. 1860

Grey wash drawing of a woman at a harpsichord with two flautists and a musician, under an allegorical cloud scene.

A Musical Gathering

Samuel Wale, 18th century

Drawing of a woman in a wide-brimmed hat seated at a café table by a window, with a second woman behind her.

Portrait of a Woman Seated at a Table

Will Houghton, ca. 1896

Engraving of a gnarled tree towering over a stone wall, with a robed hermit kneeling in prayer beside a cross at right.

Landscape with a Hermit Praying

Frederick Bloemaert, n.d.

Pencil design drawing of a classical funerary urn with a draped female figure holding a skull and the words Memento Mori.

Suggestions for Urns

L. V. Grave, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of classical acanthus scrolls and a half-harpy figure in ornamental grotesque style.

Fragment of Ornamental Drawing after the Antique; Half-harpy with Acanthus Rinceaux

Andrés de Melgar, ca. 1545-60

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns, struck by soldiers in an arched interior with onlookers and dogs on a tiled floor.

Christ Crowned with Thorns from The Passion

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Pen drawing of measured architectural cornice and entablature profiles with acanthus scrolls, arched panels, and annotations.

Architectural Study: The Measured Profiles of the Cornice and Entablature of the "Colonnacce" from the Forum Transito…

Sangallo family, 1500-20

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows seated on a cross beam with Passion instruments below him.

Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome…

Israhel van Meckenem, late 15th century

Design drawing of a hanging chandelier with a pink glass globe, scrolled candle arms, and a plan view below.

Design for a Glass Chandelier

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

A fencing master (recto); sketch of a man's head (verso)

Robert Dighton, 1790-1814

Watercolor sketch of a standing coachman in white jacket, red breeches and tall black boots, holding a hat and whip.

A coachman (recto); ships and rowboats (verso)

Robert Dighton, 1790-1814

Brown wash drawing of an ornate tall candelabrum with bird-head supports, clawed feet, and carved floral shaft.

Design for a Candelabrum

Edgar George Papworth Sr., ca. 1826-37