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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,358 works

Pencil drawing of a woodland scene with a large twisted tree at upper left, slender trunks, and an open path below.

Study of Trees

François Ryckhals, 17th century

Watercolor of a male wood duck with green head and striped flanks standing on rocks before a pale landscape.

A Duck

Aert Schouman, mid-17th-late 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a multi-tier building façade with niches, statues, pilasters and an arched doorway at ground level.

Project for a Façade Decoration (recto); Architectural Studies (verso)

Lattanzio Gambara, 16th century

Engraved sheet of ornamental dagger hilts and scabbards with scrollwork, grotesque masks, and a globe medallion.

Daggars and scabbards, from "Military Ornament"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644

Hand-colored print of Washington on a white horse under flags, greeted by women in gowns strewing flowers.

Washington's Reception by the Ladies on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N.J., April 1789, on His Way to New York to be…

Nathaniel Currier, 1845

Hand-colored print of Washington lifted to heaven by winged figures, with mourners kneeling at his tomb below.

Apotheosis of George Washington

Heinrich Weishaupt, 1830-50

Engraving of a man in dark coat stepping down stone stairs beside a flaming altar, with an allegorical woman and an eagle.

General Washington's Resignation

Alexander Lawson, 1799

Brown and white wash drawing of a standing bald man in flowing drapery, arms raised, on blue-grey paper.

Standing Male Draped Figure With His Hands Raised

Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, 1565-71

The Head and Shoulders of a Woman in Profile; Separate Studies of Her Head and Ear (recto); Fragment of Drapery Study…

Gregorio Pagani, 1592

Watercolor of a seated man in a green coat conversing with a woman in a pink dress before drapery and an armchair.

Illustration to Vanity Fair, Chapter 1: "Jos and Becky"

William Makepeace Thackeray, ca. 1848

Watercolor sketch of a woman in a blue shawl and a man in a top hat beside a street lamp, with a faint figure at left.

Design for an illustration to Vanity Fair (recto); Sketch of young woman (verso)

William Makepeace Thackeray, ca. 1847

Pencil and red chalk drawing of a bearded man in a plumed hat and fur-trimmed coat, turned to the right.

Anonymous portrait

Francesco Bartolozzi, ca. 1794-1802

Pen drawing of a piper and two onlookers in a pastoral field with cattle, framed by handwritten verse lines.

Why then begin..., illustration to "A Bucolick or Discourse of Neatherds"

Edwin Austin Abbey, ca. 1880

Pen drawing of a cobbled street with timber buildings, a woman and a man in tricorn hat walking, figures by a wall and a ship

The Sunday Walk, illustration to "Sally in Our Alley"

Edwin Austin Abbey, ca. 1886

Pen drawing of a stable with a horse over a stall, a man stirring a bucket, and a standing man with a pitchfork.

And none knew why he fed them both with his own hands, illustration to "Quince"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1888

Pen drawing of a bookshop with a seated young man talking to an older bookseller, a ladder figure, and a woman by a window.

He went to Tonson, illustration to "The Noble Patron"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1888

Pen and ink drawing of three people in period dress seated on a stone bench near a tree, with ruins and distant travelers.

The bird to others flew, illustration to "A Love Song"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1887

Engraving of George Washington rising on clouds toward winged figures, with mourners and an eagle below a memorial inscriptio

Apotheosis of Washington

John James Barralet, 1800-1802

An Angel Holding a Carafe on a Plate

David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville, n.d.

Watercolor interior of a gothic-style drawing room with a vaulted ceiling, fireplace, framed paintings and blue sofas.

Drawing Room of Lea Castle, Looking West

John Carter, ca. 1816

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate fireplace mantelpiece with caryatids, a central mirror, and a putto statue.

Design for Mantlepiece

Antonio Francisco Baeta, late 19th century

Watercolor drawing of a dancer in an ornate costume holding a tambourine and wand, with urns in the background.

Miss Horton as Morgana

Isaac Robert Cruikshank, 1830-44

Etching of a nude woman with long hair suspended upside down in a large spider web, with a small spider nearby.

Arachne

Otto H. Bacher, 1884

Engraving of a laureate emperor on a pedestal gesturing to an SPQR standard with an eagle, beside armored soldiers.

Emperor addressing his Soldiers

Antonio Fantuzzi, ca. 1542-45

Engraving of Saint Thomas with a halo, holding a carpenter's square and a book, in a draped robe.

Saint Thomas

Master FVB, ca. 1490-1500

Mezzotint oval portrait of a bewigged clergyman in a dark robe and white collar, with Latin inscription below.

Cottonus Matheris (Cotton Mather)

Peter Pelham, 1728

Etching of a Venetian canal with a moored gondola, stone steps, a crowd at a doorway, and an arched bridge.

Bridge of Sighs, Venice (First Plate)

Frank Duveneck, 1883

Watercolor of a waterfall in a rocky gorge with two figures in the foreground and a stone bridge in the distance.

A Bridge on the Aar, at the Foot of the Grimsel, in the Canton of Berne

Caspar Wolf, ca. 1775

Pencil drawing of a father embracing his barefoot son in a stone courtyard, with onlookers on a balcony and in doorways.

Return of the Prodigal Son

Friedrich von Olivier, 1830-35

Sepia ink and wash drawing of hunters on a rocky ledge under trees, overlooking a distant blue mountain valley.

Hunters in an Outlook on a Mountain

August Leopold Venus, ca. 1870