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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,358 works

Red chalk drawing of God appearing in clouds with an angel, a kneeling man looking up, and sheep below.

God Appearing to Moses

Pierre Brébiette, ca. 1632

Grey wash drawing of a young man in a tricorn hat leaning against a tree and holding a book, with distant houses.

Young Man Leaning Against a Tree With a Book

William Wellings, ca. 1780-89

Pen and ink drawing of a flower bouquet with wheat stalks rising from an ornately patterned footed vase.

Flowers in a vase

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of a ceiling design with rococo scrollwork, garlands, and reclining putti within an architectural frame.

Design for a Ceiling Decoration

Donato Giuseppe Frisoni, 1709-20

Etching of an ancient Roman mausoleum with obelisks, urns, colonnades and statues, with small figures on stepped terraces.

Ancient mausoleum erected for the ashes of a Roman Emperor (Mausoleo antico eretto per le ceneri d'un Imperadore Roma…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Pencil drawing of a rococo wall design with scrollwork, garlands, and floral motifs in framed panels.

Wall Design

Leonardo Marini, 18th century

Pencil drawing of an ornate rococo niche with an arched opening, scrolling ornament, and a domed crown.

Ornamental Design for Niche

Leonardo Marini, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of an elderly bearded man reading at a table beside a skull and hourglass.

St. Jerome reading

Isaac Oliver, 16th-17th century

Etching of a grand courtyard with columns, arches, fountains with sculpted figures, and steps with small figures.

Group of columns which support two arches of a great courtyard... (Gruppo di Colonne, che regge due archi d'un grande…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Etching of an imagined ancient temple interior with a coffered dome, Corinthian columns, a grand staircase, and smoking sacre

Imaginery ancient temple designed in the style of those built in honor of the Goddess Vesta... (Tempio antico inventa…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Etching of overgrown Roman tomb ruins with a relief frieze, a waterfall channel, and small figures in the foreground.

Ruins of an ancient tomb in front of ruins of an ancient aqueduct (Ruine di Sepolcro antico posto dinanzi ad altre ru…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Etching of ancient ruins with a porphyry urn, a palm tree, and small figures among fallen stones and columns.

Remains of ancient buldings among which stands the sepulchral urn of Marcus Agrippa made entirely of porphyry, which…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Pen and brown ink architectural section drawing showing a staircase, arched bays, Corinthian columns, niches and a pedimented

Architectural Design in Section

Leonardo Marini, 18th century

Etching of a dark vaulted prison with arches, railed galleries, a hanging rope hoist, and small figures below.

Dark prison with a courtyard for the punishment of criminals... (Carcere oscura con Antenna pel suplizio dè malfatori…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Etching of an imaginary Roman sepulchral chamber with tiered niches, arches, a reclining statue, and a sarcophagus overgrown

Camera sepolcrale inventata e disegnata conforme al costume, e all'antica magnificenza degl'Imperatori Romani... (Ima…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Pen and brown ink drawing of three standing figures in flowing robes, with curly-haired men and a veiled woman on the right.

Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso)

Stefano da Verona, 1435

Pencil design drawing of a cartouche with scrolls, flower garlands and a classical vase on a pedestal.

Design for a Cartouche with garlands and antique vase

Leonardo Marini, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo ornamental design with scrolls, foliage and an oval cartouche, with a scale bar at left.

Ornamental Design

Leonardo Marini, 18th century

Etching of a grand sculpture gallery with arches, coffered vaults, a wide staircase, statues in niches, and small figures.

Large sculpture gallery built on arches and lit from above... (Galleria grande di Statue, la cui struttura è con Arch…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Print of a man in a blue military coat with gold epaulettes and a sword, with a cannon and tree behind him.

His Excellency George Washington Esq-r

Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1777

Sepia mezzotint portrait of a woman leaning on a ledge by an arched window, with blue hand-colored drapery.

Lady Washington

Sr Joseph Hiller, after 1776

Engraving of Shylock, Jessica and Launcelot in a dim interior, a veiled woman clutching her shoulder beside a cloaked man.

Shylock's House-Shylock, Jessica and Launcelot (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 5)

Peter Simon, first published 1795; reissued 1852

Etching of a smiling woman cook standing in a kitchen with a hanging pot, wooden tub, and table of eggs and copper pot.

The Cook, from "Divers Portraits"

Giovanni David, 1775

Engraving of a boy fleeing a woman in classical robes while two men watch, with a brazier and columns in the background.

Rome, Titus's Garden-Lucius Pursued by Lavinia (Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 1)

Thomas Kirk, first published 1793; reissued 1852

Pencil portrait of a man with curly hair, bow tie and waistcoat, turned to the left, signed by Waldmüller.

Portrait of Franz Jauner (Vienna 1832-1900 Vienna), Theater Director and Actor in Vienna

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1800-1865

Engraved plate of neoclassical furniture and candlesticks, including two sedan chairs, a side table and a commode.

Miscellaneous furniture including two sedan chairs, a side table and a commode (Deux ch. à porteurs v. de côté, conso…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Etched Egyptian-style chimneypiece with a caryatid, mummy figure, hieroglyphs and sphinx heads above a burning fire.

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Mummy superimposed on a large caryatid above the lintel (Ch. à l'égyptiennne surm…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769

Title page of Piranesi's Opere varie, with red lettering and a small etching of figures among ruined classical architecture.

Frontispiece to "Opere varie di architettura, prospettive grotesshi antichità"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

Red chalk drawing of a woman dipping a cloth into a bowl held by a girl, set before a stone architectural background.

Woman Soaking a Cloth in a Bowl Held by a Girl (copy from Guercino's Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene)

Guercino, 1591-1666

Brown ink drawing of a kneeling bearded saint, a winged angel, and a putto holding a staff in a landscape.

Saint with Angel and Putto