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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

32,885 works

Watercolor of a long building with tall spired towers on a flat plain under a dramatic cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Large Building

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, 1818-83

Pen and grey wash drawing of a classical palace interior with columns, arches, a coffered ceiling and statues.

Design for a Stage set Showing the Interior of a Palace (recto); Architectural Sketch (verso)

Josef Platzer, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and ink drawing of rococo ornamental panels with scrollwork, cherubs, and floral motifs within a green-bordered frame.

Design for plate 2, from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pen and gray wash drawing of rococo ornamental panels with cherubs, scrollwork, and animal figures in a central cartouche.

Design for plate 8, from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of ornamental scrollwork panels with a central cartouche, winged figures, and urns.

Design for plate 5 from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pencil drawing of a large arched hall with rows of stacked framed paintings and two men in caps sorting them.

Candidates for Admission to the Paris Salon

Felicien Myrbach-Rheinfeld, late 19th-early 20th century

Ink drawing of a rococo frame design with scrollwork, blank central panel, and ecclesiastical motifs at the top.

Design for Frame with Ecclesiastical Motifs

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1750-88

Ink drawing of a rococo decorative frame with flowers, feathers, leaves and scrollwork around handwritten German text.

Design for a Frame with Flowers, Feathers, Leaves, and Grapes

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1750-88

Pen drawing of an ornate rococo frame with scrolling foliage, shells, a papal tiara and crossed keys, and a castle at the top

Design for a Frame

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1750-88

Pen drawing of an ornate rococo frame with cypress trees, trellis work, scrollwork and a radiant emblem at the top.

Design for Frame with Trees and Trellises

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1755

Ink drawing of a rococo ornamental frame with scrollwork, acanthus leaves, birds and a grotesque mask around a blank center.

Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Rococo Ceiling

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1755

Grey wash drawing of rocks, trees and animals framing a blank central panel, with an owl, squirrel, birds and an otter.

Design for a Title Page(?): Rocks and Animals

Joseph Martin Nideröst, late 18th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a rococo altar design with twisted columns and a relief of Saint Michael and the dragon.

Design for an Alter with Saint Michael and the Dragon

Johann Baptist Modler, 1715-74

Pen and wash drawing of a harbor with sailing ships, a fortified tower, arched bridge, and a statue on a pedestal.

Harbor Scene

Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber, ca. 1730

Drawing of a ceiling design with the Presentation in the Temple, angels in clouds, and ornate rococo scrollwork around an arc

Ceiling Design with the Presentation in the Temple

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Pen drawing of a woman between two bearded men under an ornate arch, with skeletons and inscribed banners, dated 1628.

Design for Stained Glass

Hans Ganting the Younger, 1628

Circular ceiling design in blue watercolor with winged dancing figures around a central chariot scene with horses.

Design for Ceiling: Apollo and the Hours

Angelica Kauffmann, 1760-1807

Pen and wash design drawing of a stove and wall fountain with paneled sections, arched niche, urn and carved figures.

Design for a Stove and Wall Fountain (?)

Friedrich Sustris, 1598

Pen and watercolor caricature of an engraver as a draped urn figure with a face, open books, feathers and medallions.

Caricature of an Engraver (recto); Sketch for a Caricature (verso)

Jean Charles Delafosse

Grey wash architectural elevation of a palace façade with columns, arched windows, and statues along the roofline.

Design for a Palace Façade

Carl Hårleman, early-mid 18th century

Watercolor interior design sketch with a grey floor, a black ornamental frieze, and a pink and blue patterned rug in the corn

View of Interior for Paris Exhibition 1925, with Rugs

Erik Gunnar Asplund, 1824

Grey wash drawing of a cliffside monastery with cypress trees, two robed monks on a path, and a stormy sky.

Monastery of Mega Spileon, Greece

Peter Toft, 1896

Pen and wash drawing of a papal tiara and crossed keys within an ornamental cartouche with a blank tablet below.

Papal Cartouche

Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, ca. 1740-41

Pen and grey wash drawing of a goddess of music among clouds with a winged harpist, putti, and crowds below in a rococo frame

The Goddess of Music Distributing Her Gifts to the Nations

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Pen and ink allegorical design: a seated woman offers a laurel wreath to a nude male figure with a torch, amid classical arch

Design for an Allegorical Print

Louis Lafitte, ca.1800-02

Pen and wash drawing of a heaped pile of armor, banners, a trumpet, chains and books under a cloudy sky.

The House of York

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1796

Brown ink and wash drawing of two classical urns with serpent handles, relief figures, and a lion mask detail.

Designs for Two Urns

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin

Pen and wash architectural elevation of a room wall with two windows, a central statue niche and garland relief, with a plan

Section and Plan of the Small Dining Room of the Hôtel de Montholon

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1785-86

Pen and wash design drawing of a wall with an ornate chimneypiece, caryatids, framed paintings, and two standing male figures

Design for a Wall Decoration with Chimneypiece and Two Figures

Antoine Le Pautre, ca. 1650-70

Decorative drawing of a telegraph office with interior hall scenes, operators at apparatus, a street facade and framing ornam

The main telegraph office newly built in St. Petersburg and opened 14 October 1862

Adolf Jossifowitsch Charlemagne, 1862