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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,069 works

Hand-colored print of a crowned man in costume carrying a theatre building on his head, with red curtains and an angel above.

The Theatrical Atlas

George Cruikshank, May 7, 1814

Ink sketch of a woman in a wide dark hat, hand at her chin, with red lips, on a tan background.

Portrait of a Woman

Egon Schiele, 1910

Pen drawing of a seated man watching walking houses, a snake and a pig, with a quote from Emerson's Nature above.

Build Your Own World. So Fast Will Disagreeable Things...Vanish (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pen and ink sketch of a man reading among stacked books and a candle, with a handwritten quotation about a bookworm below.

Instead of Man Reading We Have the Bookworm

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pencil caricature of a bearded man with tufted hair, huge curling beard and overcoat, one hand on hip.

Senator Dolph of Oregon (Joseph Norman Dolph)

Thomas Nast, ca. 1894

Caricature drawing of a large-headed bearded man seated on crates aboard a boat pulled by a mermaid across waves.

Samuel P. Avery Transporting His Treasures Across the Sea

Theodore Wust, ca. 1875-80

Blue and black Christmas greeting print of a snowy forest with a lit fir tree and a hooded figure, with German text.

Merry Christmas! (Frohe Weihnachten!)

Moriz Jung, 1907

The Old Flemish Woman (La Vieille Flamande)

Engraved rococo garden scene with a couple strolling, cupids, fountains and ornate scrollwork frames.

Le Temps de L'Apres dinée

François-Antoine Aveline, 18th century

Engraved rococo garden scene with a strolling couple, a fountain, a seated reader, children, and cherubs on ornate scrollwork

Post Meridies, from the Hours of the Day

Jean Mondon le fils, 1736-45

Ink and wash drawing of servants attacking a fallen man in a room, with a landscape visible through an opening at right.

The Servants of Absalom killing Amnon (2 Samuel 13, 28-29); verso: Sketch of a seated woman

Karel van Mander I, late 16th-early 17th century

Sketches of Six Heads in Profile (caricatures?) (recto); Sketch of Head and Blank Rectangle (verso)

Pen and brown ink drawing of a balustrade with two standing female figures holding garlands and two flowering urns.

Design for a Balustrade with Female Figures and Urns

Giulio Parigi, 16th-17th century

Hand-colored print of the crowded Covent Garden Theatre interior, with tiered galleries, audience, and performers on stage.

Covent Garden Theatre

Thomas Rowlandson, 1792

Torn sheet with pen sketches of a column on a pedestal, handwritten notes, numerals, and Abildgaard seals.

Notes with a studies for the Column of Liberty (Frihedstøtten)

Nicolai Abildgaard, ca. 1791

Pen and brown ink drawing of three ornamental vessels: a lion-masked ewer, a double-spouted urn, and a lidded lion-masked pot

Three Ornamental Vessel Designs

Giacomo Rossi, 17th century

Etching of Christ gesturing to women on stone steps, with an obelisk and architecture behind them and two men at lower right.

Christ addressing a group of women seated and standing on steps

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1541-44

Daumier lithograph of a horse entering a doorway as a man in a checked robe and nightcap looks on, with city rooftops beyond.

Plaisanterie que se permettent maintenant les chevaux, dans le quatier des Champs-Élysées, No. 523 from series Actual…

Honoré Daumier, March 22, 1858

Etching of a woman in a ruffled dress and fur hat holding an umbrella in a doorway, framed by curtains and a column.

Portrait of Miss L...,or A Door Must Be Either Open or Closed

James Tissot, 1876

Hand-colored print of a skeleton pouring wine for an old man beside a young woman on a sofa, with a soldier at the window.

The Honey Moon (The English Dance of Death, plate 13)

Thomas Rowlandson, August 1, 1814

Watercolor of a reclining river-god statue by a pool with figures, swans, trees and a garden trellis.

A Park with Figures at a Statue near Water

Salomon Gessner, 1775 (?)

Engraving of the Holy Kinship with the Christ Child receiving a bird from the infant John the Baptist among robed figures.

The Holy Kinship, in thecentre the Christ Child takes a bird given to him by the infant John the Baptist

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1560

Engraving of a plumed, fashionably dressed man holding a sword, with a castle and hills in the background.

A Frenchman, Sword in Hand

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Engraving of a seated painter in period dress working on a canvas of a cupid, with a palette and brushes beside him.

Painter at an Easel

Michel Lasne, 1620-67

Engraving of a uniformed naval officer firing a pistol at a sailor during battle, with rigging, fallen men and a barrel on de

Lewis Cass (The Gallery of Illustrious Americans)

Francis d' Avignon, 1850

Ink and wash drawing of two architectural ornament designs: a scroll with beaded moulding and a panel of wavy forms.

Two Designs for Ornament

Richard de Lalonde, ca. 1770

Head of a Man

Pietro Antonio Novelli, n.d.

Engraving of a seated woman holding a tablet and pen beside classical columns, with trees in the background.

Seated Woman Holding a Tablet

Jean Antoine de Maroulles, late 17th, mid 18th century

Engraving of a confectioner's shop with bakers, a brick oven, pastries on a counter, and women with a child at right.

The Confectioner

Abraham Bosse, 1632-35

Etching of a 17th-century interior with a clerk at a desk, visitors in period dress, and a servant with a basket of apples.

Employment Bureau

Abraham Bosse, 1633