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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,063 works

Engraved satirical procession of a chained crowned figure, soldiers, trumpeters and a kneeling woman, with verse below, 1689.

The Epiphany of the New Antichrist (L'Epiphane du Nouveau Antichrist)

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1689

Etching of numbered courtiers in baroque dress in an arched hall, with a seated woman and robed cleric, Dutch verses below.

L'Europe Allarmée

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Etching by Romeyn de Hooghe showing armored figures, a banner, horsemen and a palace courtyard, with printed verse below.

Le Feste des Trois Rois

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Etching of costumed figures in plumed hats and armor on a quay, with a boat and ships, above columns of printed verse.

Panurge secondé

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Engraving of plumed courtiers in an ornate hall beneath a Latin motto, with ships in a harbor and printed verse below.

Qualis vir Talis Oratio

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Engraved allegorical procession with armed men, lion, bear, wolf, wagon wheel, eagle and Dutch verse below.

De Vlugt van 't Pausdom

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Etching of a standing allegorical figure with banners, a dog, flames, books and a winged figure, with Dutch text below.

Anticurius van Loevesteyn

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Engraved equestrian portrait of a prince on a rearing horse, flanked by four armored predecessors and musicians in a decorati

William III as Prince of Orange, with the four preceding Stadthouders, William I, Maurice, Frederick Hendrick, Willia…

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of four Old Testament scenes framed by rococo scrollwork, including Adam and Eve and Moses with tablets.

Four Scenes from the Old Testament

Paul Decker the Younger, early 18th century

Grey wash drawing of a fallen rider beneath a vision of Christ on clouds with angels holding a cross, watched by soldiers.

The Conversion of St. Paul (recto); The Execution of the Prisoner (verso)

Dominik Kindermann, 18th-early 19th century

Etching of a seated allegorical woman gripping a rope beside an anchor, with sailing ships and birds on blue paper.

Hope

Pierre Brébiette, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a birth scene with attending women, an infant, and angels with flowering branches among clouds.

Birth of St. John the Baptist

Valentin Lefèbvre, 17th century

Charcoal study of an elderly woman in a draped shawl, gazing upward, with soft shading on her face and garments.

Study of an Old Woman

August von Pettenkofen, 1886

Engraving of a storm at sea with a man clinging to rocks in the foreground and a woman reaching from a cliff above.

Shakespeare's Tempest (Macklin's British Poets)

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1798

Moorish horseman in profile facing right, a black slave holding a fur at right, another horseman to left in the backg…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1651

Etching of a cow on a grassy bank, a woman in a headscarf, two cows on a stone bridge, and trees at left.

A cow ascending a bank, a peasant woman leading two cows across a bridge in background, plate 9 from "Diversi capricci"

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of two horsemen in plumed hats descending a hill, with a distant rider on a smaller horse at right.

Two horsemen descending a mountain at left, another horseman to right in background, plate 10 from "Diversi capricci"

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a peasant woman with a basket walking between a grazing donkey on the left and a packed horse on the right.

A peasant woman, seen from the back, holding a basket in center, a donkey to left and a horse with a pack on its back…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a woman riding a donkey side saddle with a child, a second woman walking beside her carrying a bag.

A young peasant woman and her child sitting side saddle atop a horse in center, another peasant woman to right, holdi…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Etching of a man in a fur hat holding a horse draped in a spotted fur cover, with small figures in the background.

A Polish nobleman, facing away, holding his horse covered in leopard skin, four men and a horse in background, plate…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1644-47

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a powdered wig and lace cuffs, resting his chin on his hand in an armchair.

The Right Honorable Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1795

Stipple engraving of a man with curly hair in an oval frame, titled Mr. Henderson in the Character of Iago.

John Henderson, in the Character of Iago (Shakespeare's Othello)

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1786

Ignatius Sancho

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1802

Engraving of a woman in classical dress holding a comic mask and placing a laurel wreath on a bust beside a lyre.

Mrs. Abington as Thalia

Francesco Bartolozzi, August 20, 1783

Engraved oval portrait of a man and woman as Romeo and Juliet, with a cherub and Capulet sign above them.

Mr. Dimond and Miss Wallis in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Francesco Bartolozzi, May 1, 1796

Engraving of men in period dress in a draped room, one with a monkey on his shoulder, two women watching by a mirror.

Frontispiece for Fanny Burney's "Evelina": Mr. Lovel Bitten in the Ear by Captain Mirvan's Monkey, vol. III

Francesco Bartolozzi, November 24, 1779

Brown ink drawing of women gathered around a nude statue beneath trees, with winged figures in the sky and a lute in the fore

The Challenge of the Pierides, from Ovid's Metamorphosis (Book V: 294-678)

Karel van Mander I, 16th-17th century

Brown wash drawing of a waterfall in a wooded landscape, with a mother and child seated on a rock at lower left.

Landscape with Waterfall and a Mother and Child

Johann Peter Beer, 1800

Portrait of Julius Olivier, the Artist's Son

Friedrich von Olivier, 1846

Engraved print of putti, musicians and lily stems rising through clouds beneath a sunburst, framed by ornamental borders.

Morning, from the series The Times of the Day

Philipp Otto Runge, 1807