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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,936 works

Etching of rocky hill with fort ruins on top, a flagpole on a mound, trees, and a small building at right.

Fort Haight/ Battle of Harlem Plains, from "Scenes of Old New York"

Henry Farrer, 1877

Etching of a stone powder magazine on a rocky outcrop in Central Park, surrounded by trees, with a small figure at its side.

A Powder Magazine in Central Park, from "Scenes of Old New York"

Henry Farrer, 1877

Etching of a wind-bent tree over a grassy shore, with sailboats on a calm bay and a distant shoreline.

Pelham Bay

Henry Farrer, ca. 1875

Etching of a moonlit river at night with a small sailboat, silhouetted trees, wooden pilings and streaked clouds.

Little Hell Gate, Harlem

Henry Farrer, ca. 1880-89

Etching of a sailboat on a river at sunset, with a city skyline and masted ships in the background.

Sunset on the East River

Henry Farrer, 1879

Etching of sailing boats and rowboats moored at a harbor shore at dusk, with a wooden building and distant ships.

Evening, New York Harbor

Henry Farrer, 1884

Lithograph of St. John's College in Fordham with cricket players on a lawn, a church spire, and a large tree on the right.

St. John's College Fordham, New York

William Rodrigue, 1846-51

Sepia lithograph of the white Richmond Seminary building on a wooded hill, with a smaller columned house and split-rail fence

Richmond Seminary, Staten Island, N.Y.

Frances Flora Bond Palmer, 1847-48

Lithograph of a crowded domed hall with columns, organ and chandelier, audience in period dress facing a stage.

Distribution of the American Art-Union Prizes, at the Tabernacle, Broadway, December 24, 1847

Francis d' Avignon, 1848

Sepia bird's-eye lithograph of New York and Brooklyn with ships crowding the harbor and dense city blocks along the waterfron

Bird's Eye View of New York and Brooklyn

John Bachmann, 1851

Hand-colored print of two dealers and a boy in a gallery of paintings, with a reclining nude and an auction notice.

Vive la France, Marchands de "Tableaux" se Preparant pour la Vente Publique / Picture "Dealers" Preparing for "Auction"

Alfred E. Baker, 1840

Etched print of two landscapes: a tree beside a river on the left, and a winding river past wooded hills on the right.

Peuplier plante par Thomas Paine and Le Pont des Sauvages, Point-Breeze (Poplar Tree Planted by Thomas Paine and The…

Charlotte Bonaparte, 1826

Lithograph of a crowded domed auditorium with Corinthian columns, a pipe organ, and a speaker on a platform.

The Broadway Tabernacle, New York, in Anniversary Week

Snyder, Black & Sturn, ca. 1856

Hand-colored lithograph of a busy 1856 Broadway street lined with shops, carriages, and pedestrians.

Broadway, New-York from Canal to Grand Street, West Side

Julius Bien, 1856

Colored lithograph of Park Place, New York, showing shop fronts, horse carriages, and top-hatted pedestrians along the street

View of Park Place, New York, from Broadway to Church Street, North Side, A.D. 1854

William Boell, 1854

Sepia bird's-eye panorama of 1866 New York City with dense buildings, rivers, sailing ships and steamboats.

Panorama of New York and Vicinity

John Bachmann, 1866

Etched sheet with seven vignettes of American landscapes, including waterfalls, a lake, a river with a sailboat, and rocky cl

Vues d'Amerique: Lac Georges; Près des chûtes de Trenton, Oneida County; Vue de la rivière du Nord, prise à Clermont;…

Charlotte Bonaparte, ca. 1826

Lithograph of Lac Georges showing a lake between hills, a rail fence and tree stumps in the foreground, and small boats on th

Lac Georges

Charlotte Bonaparte, 1824

Lithograph of a sailing ship and rowboat on a lake, with a rocky, tree-lined shore on the right and hills in the distance.

Entrée du Niagara dans le Lac Ontario

Charlotte Bonaparte, 1824

Grey lithograph of a hilly landscape with a tall poplar, village rooftops, a winding road and a distant towered building.

Vue de Lebanon

Charlotte Bonaparte, 1824

Lithograph of a lake seen through large trees, with hills beyond, a sailboat, and two small figures on rocks.

Vue du Lac Diane

Charlotte Bonaparte, 1824

Lithograph of Lake Erie seen from Buffalo, with a steamboat, sailboat, lighthouse, and trees on a grassy shore.

Vue du Lac Erié, Prise à Buffalo

Charlotte Bonaparte, 1824

Engraved ceiling design with a circular dome, garlands, rosettes, reclining figures flanking an urn, and foliage panels.

Composite Order, elevation

Jean Cotelle, 1660-1708

Etching of a plumed horseman with raised sword among fallen figures and attackers in a smoky battle scene.

Plate 17 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'They do not agree' (No se convienen)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of tangled, struggling and fallen figures on a dark hatched ground, Goya's Disasters of War plate 10.

Plate 10 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Nor [do these] either' (Tampoco)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of a merchant ship heeled over for hull repairs, with small boats and workers beside it on a calm sea.

A Merchant Man Careened for Caulking the Hull

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of a large sailing vessel with billowing sails, a rowing boat with passengers, and smaller boats on calm water.

Large Sailing Vessel and Rowing Boat

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Etching of a naval battle with warships in gunsmoke and a foundering ship on the left, sailors in the water.

Naval Battle with an English Ship Foundering on the Left, from Naval Battles (Nieuwe Scheeps Batalien), plate 5

Reinier Nooms, 1652-54

Etching of a bound man at a tree as soldiers aim muskets at him, with bodies on the ground in the foreground.

Plate 38 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): Barbarians! (Bárbaros!)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Etching of sailing boats on a waterway with fishermen working on the shore under a cloudy sky.

View of Inland Waterway with Fisherman

Reinier Nooms, 17th century