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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,355 works

Etching of a large oak tree with a woman in a hooded cloak walking a path beside ivy-covered rocks and distant fields.

Landscape with a Strolling Woman

Johann Christian Klengel, ca. 1800

Yellow-tinted pen drawing of an arched pier-glass frame with laurel crest, shell motif, swags, and scrolled base.

Design for a Pier-glass with Arched Head and Palmette Terminations

Sir William Chambers, 1743-96

Watercolor and ink design elevation of a hall lantern with green panels, scrolled pediment, hanging chains and tassels.

Design for a Hall Lantern, Elevation

James Wyatt, mid-18th-early 19th century

Watercolor design for a gilded wall girandole with a round mirror, two candle arms, swags and an urn finial.

Design for a Girandole with a Circular and Oval Glass

Sir William Chambers, 1745-1800

Watercolor design for a gilded oblong pier-glass frame with a central urn and scrolling ornament above.

Design for a Pier-glass of Oblong Form, the Cresting a Scroll and Urn

Sir William Chambers, 1743-1800

Watercolor design of a gilded neoclassical wall sconce with a round mirror, two candle arms, and laurel and drapery ornament

Design for a Sconce with a Mirror

John Yenn, late 18th-early 19th century

Two studies of Headdresses from Scrapbook

John Bridge, 18th-19th century

Engraving of an 18th-century woman in a floral gown and feathered hairstyle, with a man kissing her hand in a doorway.

Les Adieux (The Farewells), from Le Monument du Costume

Restif de La Bretonne, 1777

Engraved 18th-century interior of a man in a satin robe attended by servants, with gentlemen and a dog nearby.

The Morning Toilet (La Petite Toilette), from "Le Monument du Costume"

Pietro Antonio Martini, 1745-97

Engraved portrait of Pope Sixtus V seated on a throne in papal robes, with two putti and a Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Pope Sixtus V

Pietro Facchetti, 1585

Watercolor of a standing woman in a headscarf, white apron and red sleeves, beside a brown jug on a stone ledge.

Italian Woman

Edgar Degas, ca. 1856-57

Pen and ink design for a neoclassical ceiling or wall panel with an oval medallion, garlands, and urn motifs.

Design for a Ceiling

Robert Adam, 1745-1800

Pencil drawing of a symmetrical cross-shaped ornament with four oval cartouches, scrolls, foliage and a central rosette.

Ornament in the Shape of a Cross

Sir William Chambers, 1743-96

Grey wash drawing of an ornate architectural frame with scrolling foliage and molded borders on an irregular sheet.

Design for a Frame

Sir William Chambers, 1743-1800

Pen and wash architectural drawing of a partial chimneypiece design with rosette frieze and Ionic pilaster on pale paper.

Partial Design for a Chimneypiece

Sir William Chambers, 1740-1800

Grisaille drawing of a woman with a flower wreath before a mirror held by a winged-helmet figure, with irises beside her.

The Mirror of Venus, or L'Art et Vie (Art and Life)

Walter Crane, ca. 1890

Watercolor of a steamship deck with rigging, flags, smokestack, crew at work, and the open sea beyond.

View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc.

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Engraved print of Michelangelo's Last Judgment with nude figures rising from graves and a boatman in a skiff at lower right.

Resurrection of the Dead (lower left section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Engraved Last Judgment composite with trumpeting angels, nude figures and devils dragging souls downward, with a crowded boat

Trumpeting Angels and Damned Souls Being Pulled Down by Devils (lower center and right section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Contribution Receipt of the Special American Hospital in Paris for Wounds of the Face and Jaw

Auguste Rodin, 1916

Engraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth I holding an orb and scepter, wearing a crown and large ruff, with Latin text.

Queen Elizabeth I

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1592

Engraving of a warrior seizing an elderly man at an altar while women flee and a youth lies dead in a burning colonnaded hall

The Sack of Troy-Pyrrhus Killing Priam

Pierre Lombart, before 1654

Hand-colored sketch of a man in a green coat leaning over a woman in a white dress with blue trim in a room.

Design for "Hooking and Eyeing," a wood engraving published in "Punch" (recto); Sketch of two women and a man (verso)

John Leech, 1851

Pencil sketch of classical figures: a draped woman, cherubs on clouds, a helmeted warrior and a reclining figure with a shiel

Scene with Classical Figures

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pencil drawing of an ornate baroque gateway with statues and scrolled pediment, a lamp post, and a distant domed tower.

The Zwinger, Dresden

Samuel Prout, ca. 1833

Pencil drawing of a circular carved boss with a stylized face, leafy foliage above and scaled fish forms around it.

Boss from Chapter House, York

Eleanor Mercer, 1886

Pen drawing of bound Christ at a column, flanked by two kneeling praying figures, with scrolls and an arched architectural fr

Christ at the Column

Delli brothers, ca. 1440-70

Pen and wash drawing of an urn-shaped candelabrum with female busts, scrolling candle arms and a swag garland on a plinth.

Candelabrum in the form of an Urn Clasped by Carytides and Candle Branches

Henry Holland, 1760-1806

Watercolor botanical study of a rose, heartsease, sweet pea, garden pea, and orchid on a pale sheet of paper.

A Sheet of Studies of Flowers: A Rose, a Heartsease, a Sweet Pea, a Garden Pea, and a Lax-flowered Orchid

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 16th century

Line drawing on tan paper of two bare lower legs with bent knees, and a study of an arm resting on a block.

Study of Lower Legs and an Arm

William Pitts, early to mid-19th century