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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Watercolor design of a shield-shaped watch stand decorated with pink roses, garlands, and crossed laurel sprigs.

Watch Design

Delamotte, 1794

Pale watercolor of a stone bridge over a river, with boats, riverside wharves and a distant city skyline under cloudy sky.

Westminster Bridge, the Surrey side

Samuel Scott, ca. 1750

Pen and wash sketch of an ornate urn on a scrolled pedestal before a draped curtain, with red chalk underdrawing.

Design for a sepulchral monument (recto); Design for a sepulchral monument (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th century

Circular watercolor of an obelisk, city walls, palm trees and ships on a bay, with a figure in pink in the foreground.

View of the Obelisk of Thutmosis III Seen from the Walls of Alexandria

Jan van Call, late 17th-early 18th century

Architectural floor plan of the principal floor of Belmead mansion, showing labeled rooms, dimensions, and a carriage way.

Belmead, Virginia, for Philip St. George Cocke (plan of principle floor)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Sepia drawing of a family in classical dress walking a path with children and a dog, with a seated reader in a vignette above

"The Return"

Johannes Riepenhausen, late 18th-19th century

Grey wash drawing of a curly-haired putto head tilted upward with pursed lips, on cream paper.

Head of a Putto

Christoph Joseph Werner, 1690

Ink drawing of a uniformed soldier in a shako and cape with a handwritten French letter below, dated 1880.

Letter to Samuel P. Avery with a drawing of a military figure

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1880

Pen-and-ink cartoon of a helmeted military man standing on a map, with a robed Liberty figure and a domed capitol behind him.

Bismarck and Liberty

Thomas Nast, ca. 1885

Pen and wash design of Christ, the Virgin and saints among clouds and angels above souls behind a grate.

Design for a Wall Panel or Ceiling with The Virgin and Saints Interceding before Christ for the Souls of the Lost

Johann Baptist Enderle, 1771 or before

Pencil drawing of a monastery on a cliff above a wooded ravine with quarried rock walls and trees.

Cloister in Syracuse

Anton Hallmann, 1835

Pen drawing of five men in old German costume playing cards at a table in an inn, with a dog and a bird.

Five Men at a table in German Renaissance costume, playing cards in an inn

Paul Mila, 1825

Red chalk drawing of a standing nude woman with one hand on her chest, looking upward, on cream paper.

Standing Female Nude (after the Medici Venus)

Christian Daniel Rauch, 1805

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man with long hair resting his hand on his chin, pensive pose, on tinted paper.

Self-Portrait

Gustave Courbet, ca. 1866

Brown ink and wash drawing of two women embracing in a classical courtyard, with onlookers and angels with a child on clouds

The Visitation

Nicolas Mignard, ca. 1649

Grey wash drawing of a saint ascending among clouds and angels, framed by an ornate oval border with allegorical figures.

The Apotheosis of a Saint, Project for a Ceiling

Johann Anwander, 18th century

Watercolor of a domed baroque church seen across a park, with strollers in top hats and tree-lined paths in the foreground.

View of St. Charles Church and the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna

Rudolf von Alt, 1831

Red chalk drawing of two servants filling urns at a fountain, one bending while water pours from an urn.

Servants Filling Urns

Francisco Vieira de Mattos, 18th century

Pencil technical drawing of a phaeton carriage in side view with large spoked wheels and a red Brewster & Co. stamp.

Phaeton #137

Brewster & Co., ca. 1850

Grey-blue wash drawing of a man and woman in classical drapery embracing by columns under a moonlit sky.

Lais Taking Aristipp by Surprise

Heinrich Füger, ca. 1801

Architectural elevation drawing of the Belmead mansion facades in Gothic Revival style, with pointed arches, towers, and chim

Belmead, Plantation Mansion for Philip St. George Cocke, Powhatan Co., Virginia (partial elevations of entrance facad…

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1846

Architectural elevation and floor plan of a Gothic Revival house with towers, pointed windows, and labeled rooms, 1845.

Belmead, for Philip St. George Cocke, Powhatan Co., Virginia (elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Pencil and watercolor architectural drawing of Belmead's south entrance facade with a west-east section below.

"Belmead", James River, Virginia: Entrance façade and west-east section (recto); North-south section and upper floorp…

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Pen and ink drawing of Belmead, a Gothic Revival mansion with a central tower, above a floor plan with a carriage road.

"Belmead", James River, Virginia, Residence of Philip St. George Cocke (vignette of riverside elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Two architectural floor plans on tan paper, one above the other, with labeled rooms including library, drawing room and kitch

Two Plans for an Unidentified House

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1825-38

Watercolor architectural drawing of a columned university facade with tower and globe figure, above a symmetrical floor plan.

Design for a University (entrance façade and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, n.d.

Architectural section drawing of a two-storey library with a domed roof, columns, staircases and doorways, in pencil and ink.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Student Libraries (two sections)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1850-58

Front elevation drawing of a two-story house with central tower, columned portico and arched doors, by Alexander Jackson Davi

House for R. Dabney, Powhatan, Virginia (front elevation)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1856

Watercolor architectural floor plan of the principal floor of a house with labeled rooms, veranda and scale bar.

House for R. Dabney, Powhatan, Virginia (plan of principal floor)

Alexander Jackson Davis, June 18, 1858

Pencil long section drawing of a two-story house with central tower, staircases, arched windows and porch, dated 1858.

House of R. Dabney, Powhatan, Virginia (long section)

Alexander Jackson Davis, June 18, 1858