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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,941 works

Engraving of grotesque armored figures fighting in a crowd, with a tall hooded figure and a burning town behind them.

Anger (Ira), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter van der Heyden, 1558

Engraving of nude figures and grotesque creatures in a fantastical landscape, illustrating Lust from The Seven Deadly Sins.

Lust (Luxuria) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter van der Heyden, 1558

Engraving of Anger from The Seven Deadly Sins showing a witch with a flask, brawling soldiers, grotesque beasts and a burning

Anger (Ira) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter van der Heyden, 1558

Engraving of Avarice showing a woman counting coins amid demons, greedy figures, and a burning town under smoky skies.

Avarice (Avaritia), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558

Pen and ink drawing of fortified city walls with crenellated towers, angled bastions, and an arcaded building behind them.

Recto: "Libro Primo, Chapo Quarto..." (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 4); Verso: The Fortification of City Walls (Vitruvi…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Ink drawing of a columned temple elevation, a floor plan, and a background with a round building and arched bridge, with hand

Recto: Temple Types: in Antis and Prostyle (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, nos. 2, 3); Verso: Temple Types: Peripteral…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Pen and ink drawing of labeled trees in a landscape with hills, a pond and ducks.

Recto: On Timber, the Species of Trees (Vitruvius, Book 2, Chapter 9, no. 4); Verso: On Timber, the Battle of Larigni…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Pen drawing of a temple plan and a perspective view of a columned temple with statues, with Italian notes below.

Recto: Temple Types: Amphiprostyle (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, no. 4); Verso: Temple Types: Pseudodipteral (Vitruv…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Pen drawing of five nude dancing putti in a row, one playing a drum and another raising a small instrument overhead.

Five Dancing Putti

Amico Aspertini, n.d.

Hand-colored print of a carter whipping a horse as a cart overturns and figures fall into a river beside a cottage.

The Carter and the Gipsies

Thomas Rowlandson, May 10, 1815

Hand-colored print of skaters on a frozen lake and horse-drawn sleighs in snowy Central Park under a full moon.

Moon Light in Central Park

Haskell and Allen, ca. 1871-75

Black and white chalk drawing of a boy in a buttoned jacket asleep, slumped over his arms beside a hat and staff.

A Sleeping Shepherd Boy

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 17th century

Watercolor architectural drawing of a Gothic Revival university facade with towers, battlements and a large pointed-arch wind

University of the City of New York, Washington Square (facade of main building)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1833

Watercolor of City Hall Park in New York with trees, a church spire, row buildings, and City Hall at right, 1826.

City Hall Park, New York

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1826

Grey wash drawing of a helmeted man carrying an elderly man on his back, with a nude figure at lower left.

Aeneas and Anchises

Leonaert Bramer, 1611-74

Grey wash drawing of King Midas with donkey ears reaching for gold at a candlelit table, watched by onlookers.

King Midas

Leonaert Bramer, 1611-74

Hand-colored panoramic print of New York city showing a fountain park, busy avenues, church spires and a harbor full of ships

New-York (Union Square, Looking South)

C. Bachman, 1850

Hand-colored engraving of New York harbor with ships and a city skyline, seen from a grassy rise where a picnic party sits un

The City of New York, in the State of New York, North America [The Birch View with the Picnic Party]

Samuel Seymour, [1803] reissued ca. 1820

Pencil sketch of a figure sleeping face-down on the ground among grass tufts, drawn in soft grey tones.

A Boy Sleeping in the Outdoors

Cornelis Saftleven, 17th century

Engraved group portrait of George Washington, a boy, a seated woman, an older woman, and a standing attendant beside a map an

The Washington Family: George Washington, His Lady, and her Two Grandchildren by the Name of Custis-George Washington…

Edward Savage, March 10, 1798

Pen and watercolor drawing of snowy ruined castle courtyard with a round tower, arched gateway and bare tree.

Winter View of the Courtyard of a Medieval Castle in Ruins

Karl Julius von Leypold, 1832

Print of a shepherdess on horseback with sheep and cattle by a stream, framed in an oval, in red and gray tones.

The Four Times of Day: Le Matin

Gilles Demarteau, 1776

Engraving of a shepherdess resting with sheep and a dog under willow trees, in an oval frame with warm red tones.

The Four Times of Day: Le Midi

Gilles Demarteau, 1776

Sepia print of a shepherd resting with sheep, cattle and a dog beside a ruined tower, within an oval frame.

The Four Times of Day: L'Après Midi

Gilles Demarteau, 1776

Oval pastoral print of a shepherd in a turban with cattle, sheep, a goat and a donkey under trees at dusk.

The Four Times of Day: Le Soir

Gilles Demarteau, 1776

Satirical print of steam-powered walking, riding, and flying machines with a teapot carriage and a winged aviator.

Locomotion: Walking by Steam, Riding by Steam, Flying by Steam

Robert Seymour, ca. 1830

Engraving of armed men on a stone bridge while a shielded soldier swims through a river below.

Horatio Coclès Saving Himself by Swimming

Diana Scultori, 16th century

Wood engraving of a shepherd and a woman in robes beside sheep, a wooden gate, and a barn under a pale sky.

Thenot and Colinet Lead Their Flocks Together, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

William Blake, 1821

Black and white wood engraving of two figures dining at a table under a thatched roof, with a crescent moon and stars.

Thenot and Colinet Eat Their Evening Meal, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

William Blake, 1821

Wood engraving of a man pushing a barrel down a street past brick townhouses, in strong black and white.

A Rolling Stone Is Ever Bare of Moss, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

William Blake, 1821