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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Engraving of two disguised figures in an interior with a stag's head, shelf of pewter, and laughing seated man at right.

The Curate and Barber Disguising Themselves to Convey Don Quixote Home (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

William Hogarth, 1756 or after

Etched interior with two disguised figures in a doorway, a woman adjusting a garment, antlers and a shelf of pottery on the w

The Curate and the Barber Disguising Themselves to convey Don Quixote Home (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

William Hogarth, 1756 or after

Engraving by William Hogarth showing paintings flying and tumbling through a street among rooftops and a weathervane.

The Battle of the Pictures

William Hogarth, 1745

Etching of turbaned horsemen and a figure with a raised sword facing a charging bull, with a fallen rider and horse in the fo

Plate 3 from " La Tauromaquia": The Moors settled in Spain, giving up the superstitions of the Koran, adopted this ar…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a mounted rider with a lance attacking a charging bull on open ground, with another horseman behind.

Plate 1 from "La Tauromaquia": The way in which the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the open country

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of two men in period dress thrusting lances at a charging bull on an open field under a cloudy sky.

Plate 2 from "La Tauromaquia": Another way of hunting on foot

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull charging a cape-wielding man in an arena, with another figure standing and one seated with raised arms.

Plate 4 from "La Tauromaquia": They play another with the cape in an enclosure

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bullfighter with a cape facing a bull in an arena, with figures in cloaks and spectators behind a wooden barrier

Plate 7 from "La Tauromaquia": Origin of the harpoon or banderillas

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull goring a man in a bullring while another figure waves a cloak to distract it.

Plate 8 from "La Tauromaquia": A Moor caught by the bull in the ring

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of an armored figure gripping a bull's horns while a wounded horse stands nearby in an arena.

Plate 9 from "La Tauromaquia": A Spanish knight kills the bull after having lost his horse

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a mounted rider with a spear facing a charging bull in an arena, plate 24 of Goya's La Tauromaquia.

Plate 24 of "La Tauromaquia": The same Ceballos mounted on another bull breaks short spears in the ring at Madrid

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a lance-wielding horseman facing a charging bull in a bullring, with spectators along the top edge.

Plate 22 from "La Tauromaquia": Manly courage of the celebrated Pajuelera in [the ring] at Zaragoza

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull charging a draped table as a man leaps onto it in a bullring, with spectators watching at right.

Plate 19 of "La Tauromaquia": Another madness of his in the same ring

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull charging at a seated matador on a chair in an arena while spectators watch from the stands.

Plate 18 of "La 'Tauromaquia": The daring of Martincho in the ring at Zaragoza

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull among tossed and fallen donkeys, with men holding long poles at left and right in an arena.

Plate 17 of "La Tauromaquia": The Moors use donkeys as a barrier to defend themselves against the bull whose horns ha…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a man in white grappling with a charging bull in an arena while two cloaked onlookers watch at right.

Plate 16 of "La Tauromaquia": The same man throws a bull in the ring at Madrid

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bullfighter in a cape turning beside a lowered-headed bull in an arena, with spectators sketched above.

Plate 14 from "La Tauromaquia": The very skillful student of Falces, wrapped in his cape, tricks the bull with the pl…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull charging in a bullring, tossing horses and picadors while men scramble and spectators watch from the stands

Plate 32 from "La Tauromaquia": Two teams of picadors thrown one after the other by a single bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bullfight: a bull in an arena with a bullfighter holding banderillas, smoke burst, and mounted picadors behind.

Plate 31 of "La Tauromaquia": Banderillas with firecrackers

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a matador with cape and sword facing a horned bull in an arena, spectators watching from the stands above.

Plate 30 from "La Tauromaquia": Pedro Romero killing the halted bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a matador making a close pass as a bull charges in a bullring, with mounted riders behind.

Plate 29 of "La Tauromaquia": Pepe Illo making the pass of the 'recorte'

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a bull charging a horse in a bullring while a picador lances it, with a crowd in the stands behind the wall.

Plate 28 of "La Tauromaquia": The forceful Rendon stabs a bull with the pique, from which pass he died in the ring at…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Engraving of two men lifting the dead Christ with a shroud, three crosses on a hill in the background.

Entombment of Christ, two men lifting Christ into a tomb, with a shroud underneath the body, three crosses on Golgoth…

Giacomo Piccini, ca. 1656

Etching of a man in period dress holding a printed lottery list, looking upward on a cobbled street.

The Reading of Lottery Winners

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1746

Etching of an elderly man with white hair engraving a plate at a desk, with a framed portrait and a crowded street scene behi

Carl Ernst Christoph Hess

Ludwig Emil Grimm

Engraving of three startled men facing a robed, crowned ghost emerging from a cloud beside a stone tomb.

Hamlet and the Ghost of his Father

Adam Vogler, mid-19th century

Engraved battle scene with armored soldiers and horses on a riverbank, a bridge at right, and angels in clouds above.

The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge, after Raphael

Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, ca. 1569

Etching of a crowded rustic tavern interior with a seated violin player, drinking companions, a dog and a large hearth.

The Violin Player Seated in the Inn

Cornelis Dusart, 1685

Etching of a mounted rider and fallen soldier beneath a figure with a cross in the clouds, with soldiers behind.

The Conversion of Saul

H. Bem, ca. 1650-1725

Engraving of a man in tricorn hat and long coat holding a hand bell, standing on a stone pavement beside a door.

The Lantern in Winter, Water in Summer

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 1737