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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,361 works

Engraving page with six panels of standing sibyl figures in architectural niches, each with a Latin inscription below.

The Delphic Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraving page with six panels of female sibyl figures in architectural niches, each with a Latin caption below.

The Cumaean Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved page of six sibyl figures in architectural niches, with Latin captions beneath each print.

The Eritrean Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved panel of the Samian Sibyl holding a sword in a ruined arcade, with a child beside her; part of a six-panel sheet.

The Samian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Page of six engraved panels showing draped female figures in architectural settings, with Latin captions below each image.

The Cumean Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved print page with six panels of robed female figures among ruins, including a sibyl striking a stone wall.

The Hellespontine Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved print of a draped female figure, the Phrygian Sibyl, beside a column and broken masonry with Latin caption.

The Phrygian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Page of six engraved prints of Sibyl figures with Latin captions; lower left shows the Tiburtine Sibyl with a crown of thorns

The Tiburtine Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved page of six sibyl prints; the lower center figure carries a cross wrapped in a crown of thorns.

The Epirian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraving of a partly draped woman holding a staff and a crown of thorns, from a page of six sibyl prints.

The Colophonian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Graphite drawing of a woman's head turned upward with a wistful gaze, short wavy hair, on tan paper.

Head of a Woman Looking Up

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, 1800-1862

Museum page of three engravings: a seated woman with a standing child, a winged angel, and a reclining woman nursing beside a

The Virgin and the Young Christ

Marcantonio Raimondi, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a winged angel above a prone figure, with saints and a seated Christ figure in clouds above.

Saint Michael

Josef Christ, 1732-88

Gray wash drawing of the Good Shepherd standing on a globe with a lamb, cherubs, a dragon and a radiant IHS monogram.

The Good Shepherd

Gottfried Eichler the Younger, 1715-70

Drawing of a robed priest giving last rites to plague victims beneath hovering angels and cherubs, with columns behind.

Saint Carl Borromäus Giving Extreme Unction to the Plague-Stricken

Johann Daniel Herz the Elder, 1700-1754

Brown ink drawing of a helmeted Roman warrior raising a spear beside a sword and shield on a rocky ledge.

Roman Warriors

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1700-1767

Pen and blue wash drawing of a battle on a bridge, with an angel above holding a cross in a radiant sunburst.

Constantine's Battle at the Milvian Bridge

Georg Philipp Rugendas, 1722

Pen and ink sheet of studies showing a Madonna and child, a bearded old man, and draped standing and seated figures.

Sheet of Studies

Anthony van Dyck, 1621-27

Engraved portrait of a young woman with curled hair leaning on a balustrade holding flowers, with a formal garden behind.

Portrait of Mary Stuart

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Engraving of the prophet Daniel seated on an ornate throne, holding an open book, with Italian verse below.

The Prophet Daniel, from "Prophets and Sibyls"

Francesco Rosselli, 1480-90

Etching of a bearded turbaned man seated with a shirtless youth, an animal skull and open book in the foreground, trees and r

Magician with four Figures near a smoking Altar, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-52

Brown wash drawing of a craggy rock cliff with fissures, topped by trees and foliage.

Rocky Cliff

Johann Christian Reinhart, 18th-19th century

Pen drawing of a draped standing figure raising a chalice, with horizontal hatching in the background.

Saint John the Evangelist

Andrea Schiavone

Engraving of the Descent from the Cross with men on ladders lowering a body and mourning women gathered below.

Descent from the Cross

Master IQV, 1543

Engraving of a muscular nude man twisting over a pedestal, one arm raised, rendered in fine crosshatched lines.

Naked Figure leaning on a Pedestal

Juste de Juste, 1540-50

Engraving of nude male figures interlocked in a stacked pyramid of dynamic poses over a hatched ground.

Pyramid of Men

Juste de Juste, 1540-50

Engraving of six nude male figures forming a pyramid, interlocking limbs and bodies stacked over a ledge.

Pyramid of six Men

Juste de Juste, 1540-50

Engraving of a draped woman holding an infant in an arched niche, with French inscription text below.

Virgin and Child in a Niche

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, mid 16th century

Engraving of the Nativity with the infant Christ on the ground, surrounded by kneeling figures, an elderly seated man, and an

The Nativity

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, ca. 1544-48

Engraving of a standing female saint with halo and palm frond, draped robes, in an octagonal niche.

A female Saint

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, 16th century