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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Watercolor design drawing of ornate church wall standards with scrolled brackets, branches, and a cornice behind them.

Designs for Church Wall Standards

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Ink and watercolor design sheet showing a wall bracket, a tall nave standard and a chancel standard for church lighting.

Designs for Church Lights: Wall Bracket, Nave Standard, Chancel Standard

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Colored design drawing of a suspended church light fixture with a pink globe, brass fittings, and scroll arms, with a plan be

Design for [Gas?] Lights for a Church

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Colored design drawing of a church wall lantern in side and front elevations with gothic arches and a scrolled bracket.

Design for a Church Wall Lantern, Front and Side Elevations

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Pencil rubbings of ornate metal scrollwork and a key-like fitting, with handwritten notes on a pale sheet.

Rubbings of Metalwork

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Watercolor and pencil design sheet for a church wall lantern with a blue dome, gilded trim, and side elevation bracket.

Designs for a Church Wall Lantern

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Pencil sketch of scrolled ornamental ironwork inside an arched window or shutter frame, with handwritten labels.

Ornamental Ironwork on a Window or Shutter

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Ink drawing on blue paper of a wrought iron street lamp with scrolled arms and a lantern, with handwritten annotations.

A Metal Street Lamp, Boulevard St. Martin

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Pencil sketch of a circular pierced metal ornament with tracery and a small doorhandle detail with handwritten notes.

Metal Doorhandle, Cloisters, Hereford Cathedral

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Pencil drawing of an ornamental brass lock plate with scrollwork, birds, rosettes, and a central keyhole.

Ornamental Brass Lock, 1579

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Pencil drawing of two symmetrical ornamental panels with scrollwork and oval cartouches showing a crown and a flower urn unde

Ornament Designs on Two Panels, the Central Cartouches Decorated with Tents

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Watercolor and graphite drawing of a Gothic tracery ornamental design with foliate scrolls and yellow wash accents.

Lock from Elaborate Dresson de Sacristy, now in the Hotel de Clugny

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Pen and ink design sketch of an ornate scrolled wall lantern on a bracket, labeled No 4 and £15, dated 1885.

Lamp Design for 27 Old Steyne, Brighton

Richardson Ellson & Co., 1885

Ink design drawing of an ornate wall-mounted lantern with scrolled bracket and a circular plan view of the mount.

Wall-mounted Lamp Design

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1885

Pencil and chalk drawing of a nude woman seated by a fountain with attendants and a reclining cherub in a garden.

Bathsheba at the Bath

Antoine Pesne, 1750

Grey wash drawing of Moses kneeling before a burning bush as a figure points, with sheep grazing in the landscape beyond.

Moses and the Burning Bush

Gerard Hoet, n.d.

A Seated Woman in Profile

David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in a heavy draped robe, looking upward, with hatched shading.

A Draped Bearded Man Looking Up

David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville, n.d.

Design drawing of a cylindrical crystal jar with floral pattern, silver-plated cover and finial, on an oval tray with handles

Design for a Crystal Jar with a Silver-Plated Base and Cover

Elkington & Co., ca. 1890-1910

Red chalk drawing of a crowned woman holding a laurel branch and scepter, with faint obelisk and pyramid sketched behind her.

Cleopatra

Claude Vignon, 1647

Illuminated page with the poem The Bridge of Sighs, a falling woman in lavender above an arch and kneeling figures near a ros

The Bridge of Sighs

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Illuminated calligraphic poem with painted floral border, celestial globe and banner reading Another Year of Life Has Flown.

Another Year of LIfe Has Flown

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Watercolor of an Arcadian landscape with a stone arch, a statue, figures on steps, and a boat on a lake.

Arcadian Landscape with several Figures and a Statue of Diana

Gerard Melder, 18th century

Pencil drawing of soldiers with raised swords attacking infants beside a seated draped woman, with a crowd in the background.

Massacre of the Innocents

Willem van Mieris, late 17th-mid 18th century

Drawing with three panels showing a bird's-eye city perspective, a blank center, and a plan labeled commercial and residentia

Design and Plan for a City Bisected by Train Tracks

Robert Adams, ca. 1900

Grey pencil and wash design for a stage set showing an arched frame of tree trunks, palms and rocks around an open centre.

Design for a Stage Set

Eugène Cicéri, 1825-90

Pencil drawing of a plain with a hilltop town on the right and tall trees on the left, with faint grid lines.

Design for a Stage Set

Eugène Cicéri, 1828-90

Caricature of a Man Pointing by Gianlorenzo Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Pencil and wash drawing of a multi-arched bridge with timber trusses and a stone tower building at left.

Design for a Stage Set

Eugène Cicéri, 1840-90

Pencil drawing of a stage backdrop with palm trees, a stone column, and distant pyramids over a grid.

Design for a Stage Set: Backdrop of Tropical Landscape

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90