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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,069 works

Sepia etching of two women on a striped sofa, one playing a lute and the other holding open sheet music, both in ruffled dres

The Syrens

Thomas Rowlandson, April 10, 1787

Sepia print by Thomas Rowlandson, 1787: a woman in a plumed hat passes a gentleman and a beggar on a lamp-lit street.

Civility

Thomas Rowlandson, 1787

Engraving of men gambling with cards and coins at a tavern table, with a dog in the foreground and a man smoking a pipe.

Smithfield Sharpers, or the Countryman Defrauded

John Keyse Sherwin, April 10, 1787

Hand-colored print of a crowded curving staircase with people falling and a classical statue in a niche.

The Exhibition "Stare-Case"

Thomas Rowlandson, 1811?

Etching of a man in a wig offering an apple to a feathered-hat woman, with two other fashionable women watching.

The Golden Apple, or the Modern Paris

Thomas Rowlandson, March 2, 1785

Hand-coloured caricature of an opera singer in gold armour before an exaggerated audience and orchestra.

John Bull at the Italian Opera

Thomas Rowlandson, October 2, 1811

Satirical print of men in a drunken party around a long table, with bottles strewn on the floor and a ballot box on the mante

The Brilliants

Thomas Rowlandson, January 15, 1801

Public Characters

Thomas Rowlandson, April 1, 1801

Hand-colored woodcut of Saint Ambrose, a haloed bishop in red mitre, seated at a desk writing in an open book in a study.

Saint Ambrose

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1492

Black and white print of a circular interlaced knot roundel with eight wreaths, a central shield, and leafy corner ornaments.

“The Third Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Eight Wreaths and a Scalloped Shield in its Center

Albrecht Dürer, 1521 before

Black and white woodcut of a large circular interlaced knot pattern with decorative corner ornaments on a cream page.

“The Fifth Knot”. Interlaced Roundel with Seven Six-pointed Stars

Albrecht Dürer, 1521 before

Woodcut of Christ crowned with thorns, surrounded by mocking soldiers in a vaulted hall, with a city view at right.

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1500

Grayscale drawing of a violent street crowd in front of a columned opera house with smoke and broken windows.

Astor Place Riot, May 10, 1849

Charles M. Jenckes, 1896

Engraving of Vertumnus and Pomona: a disguised figure beside a reclining woman among fruit, with cupids and a fountain in a w

Vertumnus and Pomona

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765

Woodcut of the Four Horsemen riding over fallen figures, with an angel in the clouds above and a skeletal rider in front.

The Four Horsemen, from "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1511

Engraving of Arion playing a lyre on a dolphin in a stormy sea, with sea nymphs and a burning ship in the background.

Arion

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1763-66

Engraving of bathers under a wooden pavilion with a walled town and towers in the background, one man playing a flute.

The Bath House (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of Christ shown to a crowd of soldiers from a balcony, with a Latin inscription below.

Ecce Homo (reverse copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of the Betrothal of the Virgin: a high priest joins hands of a couple before a Gothic arch with onlookers.

The Betrothal of the Virgin, from "The Life of the Virgin" (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, early 16th century

Woodcut of two figures talking with hand gestures in a café, with a city street visible through the window.

Conversation between Mutes (Gespraech zwischen Stummen)

Moriz Jung, 1907

Stylized print of a woman in a feathered hat talking with a silhouetted man smoking on a cobblestone street at night.

Nightly Conversations (Naechtliches Gespraech)

Moriz Jung, 1907

Drawing of classical statues, busts, framed paintings, and oval portrait medallions with cherubs and a lion head.

Allegory of Louis XV as Patron of the Arts with Paintings and Sculpture from the Salon of 1769

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, ca. 1769

Engraved sheet of nine comic vignettes showing animals, townsfolk, a library and a sickroom, with captions below each scene.

Lock on the Understanding, Heavy Wet, etc.

David Claypoole Johnston, 1832

Hand-colored caricature of P. T. Barnum's head on a black beetle's body, captioned HUM-BUG, from 1851.

Hum-Bug (P. T. Barnum), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Political cartoon of a caricatured man riding two horses labeled PEACE and WAR, with satirical speech bubbles, 1864.

Little Mac, in His Great Two Horse Act, in the Presendential Canvass of 1864

Justin H. Howard, 1864

Black and white caricature of five men's heads in oval frames around a laurel wreath, labeled Blunder, Wrong, Copper, Sore an

Heads of the Democracy

Currier & Ives, 1864

Lithograph of two Jesuit priests in tricorn hats whispering, framed by serpents, with verse text in English and German below.

The Jesuits' Lament

Francis Raab, before 1854

Etching of a seated nude man with clasped hands in front of a hatched curtain, resting on a wooden bench.

Nude Man Seated before a Curtain

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1646

Pen and brown ink drawing of a draped allegorical woman in a niche, flanked by caryatid figures under an ornate architectural

Female Allegorical Figure of Benignitas (Goodness), with Attributes of Abundance Standing in a Niche (recto); Archite…

Giorgio Vasari, 1550-70

Etched caricature of five exaggerated figures, one holding a pole topped by a cap labeled LIBERTY, titled The Present State o

The Present State of Great Britain

James Phillips, 1779