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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,245 works

Watercolor of an old timber mill with a wooden waterwheel beside a river, with two fishermen on the bank.

Riverside Scene (Old Mill)

Peter De Wint, 1805-10 (?)

Red chalk drawing of a river scene with trees, houses, reeds and a rower in a small boat on calm water.

River Scene

Abraham Rutgers, 1645-99

Watercolor landscape of rolling hills, a cottage, and two small figures walking on a winding road.

Hilly Landscape with Two Figures on a Road

William Taverner, mid-18th century

Illuminated letter B with a dragon, a knight with a sword, a tree, and figures being anointed in blue, red and gold.

Illuminated Initial "B"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Etching of a woodland sacrifice to Pan, with a goat, satyrs, nymphs and a large tree beside an altar.

Sacrifice to Pan

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1762-63

Watercolor landscape of a winding river gorge with cliffs and trees, a distant town and hills under cloudy sky.

View of Chepstow, Wales

John Scarlett Davis, 1834

Grey wash drawing with white highlights of two tall overgrown tree trunks, vines, flowers and rocks on tan paper.

Study of Overgrown Trees; verso: Study of a Cypress and Two Overgrown Trees

Joseph Werner the Younger

Brown ink and wash drawing of two waterfalls tumbling between rocks into a pool, shaded by overhanging trees.

A View of Lower Rydal Falls, Cumbria

Thomas Fearnley, 1837

Watercolor and pen drawing of tall trees over parkland with grazing cattle and a distant treeline under a pale sky.

The Moat Island, Windsor Great Park

Thomas Sandby, ca. 1754

Watercolor of a ruined castle gatehouse with ivy-covered walls, tall trees, and small figures under a cloudy sky.

Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon

Francis Towne, 1773-80, with additions in 1805

Watercolor study of a windswept tree with golden and green foliage against blue and green washes of sky and hillside.

Study of a tree

George Richmond, possibly 1848

Red chalk and graphite sketch of large cedar trees in a park with grass, a figure, and grazing animals.

Cedar trees in a park

George Richmond, 1840-70

Watercolor landscape of cattle in a stream beneath large trees, with a ruined abbey and hills in the distance.

Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

Paul Sandby, 1770-79 (?)

Watercolor of a young woman with a stick in a forest, with workers and stacked timber behind her.

Barking Timber in Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire

Joshua Cristall, 1818 (?)

Graphite sketch of a dense clump of trees above a shaded path, with hatched shading on the foliage and ground.

A clump of trees

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1757

Pencil sketch of a rocky stream with a fallen log, boulders, shrubs and pebbles in the foreground.

A Rocky Stream or River

James Ward, ca. 1811

Etched satyr mask with furrowed brow, flattened nose, long beard and an oak leaf wreath on the head.

Satyr Mask with an Indented Snout and a Wreath of Oak Leaves, from "Divers Masques"

François Chauveau, ca. 1635-45

Mask with a Wreath of Laurels and a Wreath of Oak Leaves, Seen from Below, from "Divers Masques"

Mask with a Wreath of Laurels and a Wreath of Oak Leaves, Seen from Below, from "Divers Masques"

François Chauveau, ca. 1635-45

On the Thames at Hammersmith

On the Thames at Hammersmith

John Varley, ca. 1836

A View of Cavi in the Sabine Hills

A View of Cavi in the Sabine Hills

Louis Gurlitt, 1848

View of Capri

View of Capri

Carl Wagner, 1823

Hunting Still Life in a Forest

Hunting Still Life in a Forest

Wybrand Hendricks, 1784

Broken Tackle

Broken Tackle

Hubert von Herkomer, 1891

A House near a Grotto and a Roadside Chapel at Lake Nemi, with a View of Genzano from the North; verso: Sketch of Trees on the Border of a Lake, with Mountains in the Background

A House near a Grotto and a Roadside Chapel at Lake Nemi, with a View of Genzano from the North; verso: Sketch of Tre…

Johann Martin von Rohden, early-mid 19th century

View of the Château at Folembray

View of the Château at Folembray

Paul Huet, ca. 1831

An ivy covered ruin

An ivy covered ruin

Francis Towne, late 1780s-early 1790s