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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Ink and wash design drawing of a fireplace with ornate scrolled mantel, hob grate with baluster bar, and plan view below.

Design for a Cast-iron Hob Grate in Ormolu

Benjamin Dean Wyatt, 1814

Watercolor design drawing of an ornate fireplace grate with urn finials, scrolled supports, and lion medallions.

Design for Cast-iron Grate with Green Metal Surround

Benjamin Dean Wyatt, ca. 1814

Grey wash design drawing of a fireplace with winged griffins on pedestals, acanthus scrolls, and a central baluster.

Design for Cast-iron Grate in Rococo Style with Putti Fire Dogs

Benjamin Dean Wyatt, ca. 1814

Watercolor design of a fireplace with a cast-iron grate, perforated fire basket, and green ornamental border.

Design for Cast-iron Grate with Eagles Grasping Snakes

Benjamin Dean Wyatt, ca. 1814

Watercolor design of a curved cast-iron fireplace grate in a green scrolled surround, numbered 520.

Design for Cast-iron Grate, Elevation and Plan

Benjamin Dean Wyatt, 1814

Ink and wash drawing of a fireplace design with a cast-iron grate, putto-topped fire dogs, and an ornate urn above.

Design for a Cast-iron Grate

Benjamin Dean Wyatt, ca. 1814

Pen drawing of a symmetrical neoclassical ceiling design with a central circular medallion, scrolls, garlands and urn panels.

Design for an Oblong Ceiling with an Oval Centre

James Wyatt, 18th-19th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a wooded river landscape with a stone bridge, a tower, and large framing trees.

Ancient buildings next to water in the woods (recto); A variation of the same landscape in reverse (verso)

Robert Adam, 1740-55

Watercolor design elevation of a Gothic-style white marble chimney piece with carved overmantel and flanking pilasters.

Design for a Chimney Piece in a "Jacobethan" style, for the Drawingroom at Grendon Hall, Warwickshire

Joseph Potter, 1825

Grey wash drawing of a vaulted Gothic hall with a draped catafalque, gilded coffin, candles and attendants.

Vaulted Interior with Catalfalque, Coffin and Attendants

Robert Mackreth, 1822

Watercolor of a crowded early 1800s salon with harp and piano performers, a flute player, and an audience in period dress.

A Concert

Granddaughters of Dr. Samuel Parr, 1820-30

Two young women in a period room, one writing at a table and one sewing by a window, with framed prints on the walls.

Two young women writing and sewing in an interior at Hatton, Warwickshire

Granddaughters of Dr. Samuel Parr, 1820-30

Watercolor interior of a drawing room with seated women, a table with books, and many framed portraits on the walls.

Drawing Room at Hatton, Warwickshire

Granddaughters of Dr. Samuel Parr, 1820-30

Watercolor interior with green curtains, portraits on walls, a woman reading, a woman writing, and two seated men.

An interior at Hatton, Warwickshire

Granddaughters of Dr. Samuel Parr, 1820-30

Pen and ink sketch of a kneeling Virgin, a standing St Peter, and small studies of seated figures and a child.

Sketches of Figures of the Virgin Kneeling,St Peter Standing,Seated Allegorical Figures of Faith and Charity, and Chi…

Simone Ferrucci, 1487

Grey wash drawing of a symmetrical foliage frieze with scrolls, ivy leaves, and bellflowers inside a double-ruled border.

Design for Frieze of Foliage

Thomas Pether, 1770-79

Pen and watercolor drawing of a tiered crystal chandelier with a crown finial, gilt bands and cascading drops.

Large Chandelier at Carlton House, Pall Mall

Edmund Thomas Parris, 19th century

Blue watercolor of an anthropomorphic kingfisher in a tailcoat fishing with a rod beside a pond and reeds.

Kingfisher

Linley Sambourne, late 19th century

Pencil and wash drawing of a triangular pediment with a seated armoured woman holding a spear, flanked by putti.

Design for a Pediment

Bouget, ca. 1700

Pen and gray wash drawing of a crowd in 1750s fashion, with a stout man with a cane in the foreground before a classical buil

Taste a la Mode in the Year 1753

Louis Pierre Boitard, 1753

Pen and watercolor architectural drawing of a spire top cross with lead cap, with north and south elevations and handwritten

Design for a Cross Supported by Lead Roof Cap, for Belleaw Church

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Watercolor design drawing of a gate's top section with gilt finials, blue scrolls, a green arch and handwritten color notes.

Design for Top Portion of a Gate, Full-Size

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Watercolor design drawing of a floral church bracket with side elevation and plan views, labeled with scale.

Design for Floral Brackets for a Church

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Pencil and watercolor design of an ornamental iron gate with elevation and plan views and handwritten dimension notes.

Design for an Iron Gate, Elevation and Plan

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Watercolor design drawing of wall light brackets showing side and front elevations in brown, blue, gold and red.

Design for Church Lights or Standards

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Pen and watercolor design drawing of an iron gate with scroll work, annotated with bar sizes and hinge notes.

Design for a Church Gate

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Colored design drawing of a tall ornate church light stand with branching arms, beside a small trefoil plan view.

Design for Church Lights

Richardson Ellson & Co., 1877

Colored design drawing of an ornate church lamp standard with a domed lantern and a small circular plan diagram.

Designs for [Gas?] Lights for a Church

Richardson Slade & Co., ca. 1880

Watercolor and ink design of an ornate gilded column light in elevation with a semicircular plan view below.

Design for Proposed Column Lights, St. Jude's Church, Southsea

Richardson Ellson & Co., 1877

Watercolor design drawing of an ornate multi-light standard with plan views of its head beside it.

Designs for Nave Standards, St. Jude's Southsea

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880