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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Pen and red chalk drawing of a seated bearded man gesturing, with sketched figures and rays of light at right.

Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape

Hans Stutte, 1600-1625

Portrait of Alfred Rethel, looking up; verso: Studies of two heads

Heinrich Karl Anton Mücke, 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of several figures, including a standing man and a kneeling woman, on pale paper.

Sketch for the Judgment of Solomon (?); verso: Dancing Mythological Figures

Christian Gottlieb Schick, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of a draped female figure beside a horse with curled mane, a winged figure and two putti above.

Diana and Hecate

Rosso Fiorentino, n.d.

Watercolor drawing of a ruined classical temple with Corinthian columns, a stone lion, statues, and figures among fragments.

Capriccio with an Ancient Temple

Hubert Robert, ca. 1756

Watercolor botanical study of oak branches with catkins and acorns, a bark and wood block, and loose acorns on paper.

Studies of the blossoms, fruits and trunk of an English oak (Quercus robur)

Ludwig Pfleger, 1788

Botanical watercolor of elm twigs with leaves and blossoms, a bark-covered trunk block, a cut wood block, and winged fruits.

Studies of the leaves, blossoms, fruits and trunk of an English elm (Ulmus procera)

Ludwig Pfleger, 1788

Watercolor botanical study of whitebeam leaves, white blossoms, red berries, and two cut trunk sections with bark.

Studies of the leaves, blossoms, fruits and trunk of a whitebeam (Sorbus subgenus Aria)

Ludwig Pfleger, 1788

Watercolor botanical study of a wild apple branch with blossoms, fruit, bark, cut wood, and a halved apple with seeds.

Studies of the trunk, blossoms and fruit of a wild apple tree (Malus sylvestris)

Ludwig Pfleger, 1788

Watercolor of domed tombs with crescent finials among palm trees, a stone bridge over water, and figures on a dirt road.

Tombs of Great Arab Saints to be seen in the Neighborhood of Rosetta, Egypt

Luigi Mayer, ca. 1800

Watercolor elevation of a Gothic Revival mansion with a central tower, with a floor plan below on a lawn.

Lyndhurst for George Merritt, Tarrytown, New York (west [rear] elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1865

Watercolor architectural drawing of a Gothic Revival castle-style house in elevation views and a floor plan, 1832.

Glen Ellen for Robert Gilmor, Towson, Maryland (perspective, elevation, and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1832

Watercolor elevation of a two-story stone townhouse with Gothic windows, a columned porch, and a man in a top hat at the step

Design for a Double Townhouse (front elevation)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1843

Watercolor architectural elevation of a stone villa with a central tower and arched windows, set among trees and a lawn.

Grace Hill for Edwin C. Litchfield, Brooklyn, New York (front elevation)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1854

Watercolor elevation of a stone gate lodge with an arched iron gate, turret, and arched windows, set against wooded hills.

Gate Lodge for Amos G. Hull, Newburgh, New York (front elevation)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1849

Grayscale drawing of a violent street crowd in front of a columned opera house with smoke and broken windows.

Astor Place Riot, May 10, 1849

Charles M. Jenckes, 1896

Gothic Revival building elevation with pointed arch windows and towers above a labeled floor plan with chapel and library.

New York University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Buildings and Other Material

Alexander Jackson Davis, 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a coved ceiling design with scrolled ornament, an oval medallion, and handwritten notes.

Quarter Plan for a Coved Ceiling

Antenore Ridolfi, ca. 1561

Drawing of classical statues, busts, framed paintings, and oval portrait medallions with cherubs and a lion head.

Allegory of Louis XV as Patron of the Arts with Paintings and Sculpture from the Salon of 1769

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, ca. 1769

Pen and brown ink drawing of a draped allegorical woman in a niche, flanked by caryatid figures under an ornate architectural

Female Allegorical Figure of Benignitas (Goodness), with Attributes of Abundance Standing in a Niche (recto); Archite…

Giorgio Vasari, 1550-70

Ink drawing of a barefoot figure in a top hat with a giant eyeball for a head, standing above a hilly landscape.

Standing on the Base Ground... I Become a Transparent Eyeball (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pen drawing of corn, melons and a gourd with a human face, with a handwritten quote from Emerson's Nature below.

I Expand and Live in the Warm Day Like Corn and Melons (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pen drawing of a seated man watching walking houses, a snake and a pig, with a quote from Emerson's Nature above.

Build Your Own World. So Fast Will Disagreeable Things...Vanish (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pen and ink sketch of a man reading among stacked books and a candle, with a handwritten quotation about a bookworm below.

Instead of Man Reading We Have the Bookworm

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pencil caricature of a bearded man with tufted hair, huge curling beard and overcoat, one hand on hip.

Senator Dolph of Oregon (Joseph Norman Dolph)

Thomas Nast, ca. 1894

Caricature drawing of a large-headed bearded man seated on crates aboard a boat pulled by a mermaid across waves.

Samuel P. Avery Transporting His Treasures Across the Sea

Theodore Wust, ca. 1875-80

The Old Flemish Woman (La Vieille Flamande)

Ink and wash drawing of servants attacking a fallen man in a room, with a landscape visible through an opening at right.

The Servants of Absalom killing Amnon (2 Samuel 13, 28-29); verso: Sketch of a seated woman

Karel van Mander I, late 16th-early 17th century

Pen and ink study of a Gothic arched window with lettering and sketched figures around it, for a book frontispiece.

Study for frontispiece for "Les Jeunes France" by Theophile Gautier

Sketches of Six Heads in Profile (caricatures?) (recto); Sketch of Head and Blank Rectangle (verso)