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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,941 works

Watercolor of a ship deck with a large iron winch, wooden ladder, rigging, and a red buoy under a cloudy sky.

Deck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc., 1866

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of anchored ships in a calm bay with a distant village, framed by conifers and rocks in the foreground.

Arrival in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: The Cable Passed to the Paddle-box Boat of the Terrible, etc.

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Watercolor of a ship's deck with masts, rigging, a hanging buoy, and sailors working near a capstan and flag.

Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of sailors and men gathered on a steamship deck around a notice board, with rigging and signal flags overhead.

News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc.

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Watercolor of a harbor with tall ships, steamers, rowing boats with flags, and a crowd on a pier under cloudy skies.

The Cable Fleet Leaving Ireland, July 1858

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Hand-colored drawing of a green and black phaeton carriage in side view with yellow-trimmed spoked wheels, labeled No. 1003.

Phaeton #1003

Brewster & Co., 1865-1875

Watercolor capriccio of Roman ruins with a monumental arch, columns, a rearing horse, and a distant triumphal arch.

Architectural Capriccio with a Monumental Arch

Jean Nicolas Servandoni, 18th century

Watercolor elevation of a domed temple with a columned portico and pediment, based on the Pantheon, with a scale bar below.

Architectural Project based on the Pantheon

Ahlsned, ca. 1847

Two Studies of Bearded Men; verso: Studies after Antique Sculpture

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of several draped female figures and a reclining male figure, with smaller figure studies in the margins

Studies of draped female and male figures; verso: Studies of draped female figures

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, 18th-early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of overgrown Roman ruins with arched openings, broken stone blocks, and dense vegetation.

Partial View of the Colosseum (recto); Sketch of the Temple of Minerva Medicea (verso)

Johann Christian Klengel, late 18th-early 19th century

Grey wash drawing of a haloed priest preaching to kneeling men, women, children and a dog beside classical ruins.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola Preaching

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, before 1761

Ink drawing of figures gathered at a tomb entrance under trees, with a wide hillside landscape and inscribed gravestones.

The Raising of Lazarus

Matthias Deigle, 18th century

Blue-toned drawing of a mountain valley with a lake, trees, clouds, and small figures near a wooden building.

View of the Ankl-Alpe and the Schliersee

Johann Georg von Dillis, 1817

Graphite and chalk drawing of a wooded valley with a shepherd, goats and cattle on a path beneath clouds.

Landscape near Ruhpolding

Cantius Dillis, late 18th-mid-19th century

Brown wash drawing of a castle courtyard with a stone tower, arched passage, stepped gable and cobblestones.

View of the Courtyard of the Castle at Döben

Carl Gustav Carus, 1800-1869

Sepia drawing of a dense woodland edge with tall trees and undergrowth in the foreground.

Edge of a Wood near Frascati

Ernst Fries, 1824

Pen and wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a river, distant mountains, two resting figures and a ruined tower.

Southern Landscape with Resting Wayfarers at a River

Ferdinand Kobell, 1760-99

Watercolor landscape with trees, an obelisk, a statue on a pedestal, small figures, a river and a distant hilltop town.

Arcadian Landscape with Figures Making Music

Jan van Huysum, early 18th century

Brown wash drawing of the Old Admiralty building in London with a columned colonnade, pediment, and arched gateway.

The Old Admiralty in London

Carl Gustav Carus, 1844 (?)

Pen and ink drawing of an aristocratic family standing among a crowd of villagers outside cottages.

An Aristocratic Family Visiting Paupers

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, mid-18th-18th century

Pen and ink drawing of a fallen tree with branches draped over classical ruins and a broken column beneath a cloudy sky.

A Fallen Tree with Ruins

Paul Troger, 1700-1762

Studies of a Woman Praying

Ludwig Emil Grimm, early to mid-19th century

Watercolor of Dresden across a river with a bridge and church domes, a couple and dog walking under trees in the foreground.

View of Dresden from the West

Christian Gottlob Hammer, 1833

Grey wash landscape drawing of two trees on a rocky hillside with a path and distant hills.

Landscape near Albano and Pallazole

Josef Rebell, 1812

Watercolor stage design of a vaulted Roman ruin converted into a barn, with a staircase, cart, ladder and figures.

Stage Set Design of an Ancient Roman Ruin being Converted into a Barn

Johann Heinrich Ramberg, late 18th-mid-19th century

Grey ink and wash design for a pendant showing St. George on horseback attacking a dragon, surrounded by scrollwork.

Design for a Pendant with St. George and the Dragon

Otto Seitz, 1889

Engraving of a baroque theatre proscenium with ornate columns, a central stage with performers, and a large audience.

Proscenium for Angelica, Vincitrice di Alcina

Franz Ambros Dietel, 1716

Pen and blue wash drawing of a white eagle perched on a branch between floral garlands, in a horizontal ornamental band.

Ornament with Eagle and Garlands

Aug. Strubeker, 1833

Grey wash drawing of a spired castle across a moat, with a large tree and figures near a gate in the foreground.

View of Frederiksborg Castle from the Northeast

Johan Christian Dahl, 1817