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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,950 works

Engraving of a night cellar with a fireplace, a woman holding a lantern, and men gambling and sleeping among overturned furni

The Idle 'Prentice Betrayed by his Whore and Taken into a Night Cellar with his Accomplice: Industry and Idleness, pl…

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of apprentices gambling on a tomb in a churchyard as a man with a cane looms over them, skulls and bones nearby.

The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Churchyard: Industry and Idleness, plate 3

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved street scene of musicians and drummers in a wedding procession beside a shop doorway with onlookers and a dog.

The Industrious 'Prentice Out of his Time and Married to his Master's Daughter: Industry and Idleness, plate 6

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a rowing boat on choppy water with an apprentice, a woman in a cloak, and a man at the oars; ships behind.

The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a sailor and a woman startled in a cluttered garret bedroom beside a fireplace and bed.

The Idle 'Prentice Returned from Sea and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute: Industry and Idleness, plate 7

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a church interior with an apprentice and young woman sharing a hymnal in a pew, organ and congregation behind.

The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: IIndustry and Idleness, plate 2

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a church interior with an apprentice and young woman singing from a hymnal in a pew, an organ and congregation b

The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: Industry and Idleness, plate 2

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a master and apprentice at a desk beside a workshop of spinners, with a cat and dog in the foreground.

The Industrious 'Prentice a Favorite, and Entrusted by his Master: Industry and Idleness, plate 4

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Etching of seated men in ruffed collars at a table, one balancing an egg, with a standing figure and column behind them.

Columbus Breaking the Egg

William Hogarth, December 1, 1753

Engraving of two apprentices at looms in a workshop, one idle beside a dog, with a well-dressed man and a book at right.

The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms: Industry and Idleness, plate 1

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved courtroom scene of a seated alderman before accused apprentices, with a clerk writing and a crowd behind a railing.

The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle One Brought Before Him & Impeached by his Accomplice: Industry…

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Lithograph of a young woman in a corset and chemise beside a hanging petticoat, a hatbox in hand, in a cluttered room.

Rien n'est si joli que la fable, si triste que la vérité!, plate 30 from the suite Les Lorettes, published in "Le Cha…

Paul Gavarni, October 21, 1842

Two circular etched compositions with framed vignettes of elephants, lions, monkeys, birds and hunters in landscapes.

Designs for Plates Taken from Oudry's Illustrations to La Fontaine's Fables

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, after 1755

Engraving of a reclining piper under a large oak beside a standing shepherd gesturing toward grazing cattle and sheep.

Mercury and Battus, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

Robert Willemsz de Baudous, after 1590

Etching of a couple embracing in a rocky cave as a turbaned servant spills a bucket and another man looks on.

L'intrigue découverte

Hand-colored caricature of three figures, a stout British officer, a woman with a child, and a French officer, gesturing at o

Recontre d'Anglais a Paris; Le Suprême Bon-Ton No. 23

Le Jeune Adrien Pierre Godefroy, ca. 1815

Hand-colored 1815 print of three stylized fashionable figures in London-style dress, including a man in a top hat between two

L'Amour et les Graces Arrivant de Londres; Le Suprême Bon-Ton No. 24

Le Jeune Adrien Pierre Godefroy, 1815

Lithograph of a hunched man with a lantern gathering pamphlets beside a tombstone at night, with a basket on his back.

Masked Man using a Lantern to Collect Discarded Pamphlets by a Tombstone, from "Le Charivari"

Bénard, ca. 1830

Etching of a seated woman reading beside a standing man with a wicker basket, with foliage behind them.

Sheet of Sketches, from "Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart"

François Boucher, 1735

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man greeting a gaunt man holding a fish, with a pierrot figure and street crowd behind.

Hé c'est l'ami Carême!, Musée Grotesque No. 53

Aaron Martinet, early 19th century

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man taking a dance lesson beside a small dog while a violinist plays.

Lord-tolan prenant sa leçon de dance, La Passions, No. 7

Basset, 19th century

Hand-colored print of a rider on a chestnut horse beside a cane-carrying man, with a seated crowd under trees.

Le Boulevard de Gand à Paris

Georges-Jacques Gatine, 19th century

Ink and grey wash drawing of an angel blowing a trumpet above a crowd of figures with raised arms.

The Last Trumpet (recto); Two studies of a right eye, a profile of an open-mouthed young man, the head of an eagle, a…

William Blake, 1780-85

Lithograph of a reclining man attended by grotesque mourners as an armored winged woman with spear and shield descends.

Repas de Corps. Epoque Mémorable de 1821

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, 1821

Oval etched portrait of an elderly man in a powdered wig and dark coat, with cross-hatched shading.

Portrait of Bacon Morritt

William Doughty, 1772

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat, holding a printed sheet, against a shaded background.

Portrait of Robert Graves, Printseller

Robert Graves, 1827

Etched self-portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar holding a small panel of a woman, with a city skyline and drawing tools beside him.

Self-Portrait, from "Image de divers hommes: The true effigies of the most eminent Painters"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century

Engraved portrait of Reverend John Diodati in black cap and white collar, hands resting on an open book, 1643.

Portrait of John Diodati, from "Pious Annotations upon the Holy Bible"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1643

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat, labeled as Pietro Aretino, by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Pietro Aretino

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1640

Engraving of a helmeted warrior holding a severed bearded head aloft, with a nude body on the ground in a hilly landscape.

Judah with the Head of Adonibezek, from "Tyrannorum Proemia"

Maerten de Vos, 1578