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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,048 works

Etching of Saint John preaching to a crowd among rocks and trees, with his arm raised, by Jacques Callot.

Saint John Preaching in the Desert (Saint Jean Préchant dans le Désert), with arm upraised, surrounded by male and fe…

Jacques Callot, 1634-35

Etching of Lazarus rising from a stone slab in a cave while robed onlookers gather around him.

The Resurrection of Lazarus (La Resurrection de Lazare), set in a cave, from "The New Testament" (Le Nouveau Testament)

Jacques Callot, 1635

Hand-colored caricature of a stooped elderly officer in a cocked hat, pink coat and yellow breeches, leaning on a cane.

Anything Will Do For an Officer

Thomas Rowlandson, January 1, 1796

Etching of Judith presenting Holofernes' head on a tray beside a canopied bed, with an attendant and a sword in the scene.

Judith placing the head of Holofernes on a tray held by an attendant, with the body of Holofernes on a canopied bed

Jacques Callot, ca. 1621-35

Engraving of an allegorical woman representing Rhetoric, flanked by two men, with architectural and scroll ornament.

Rhetoric (Retorique)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of an allegorical figure of Arithmetic with an hourglass, books and scrollwork, flanked by two seated men.

Arithmetic (Arithmetique)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraved ornament plate with a draped allegorical female figure, grotesques, eagles and scrollwork around an inscription cart

Architecture (Arquitraicture)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving in an oval frame showing a hero fighting a man on the ground, with two horses and a stable behind, plus Latin borde

Hercules Killing Diomedes

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Etching of two mules with panniers, plumes and tassels in the foreground, and a horseman driving more mules across a field.

Two mules bearing panniers and outfitted with blinders, plumes, and tassels; one mule in three-quarter view and behin…

Karel Dujardin, ca. 1641-78

Engraving of a hero leading a white horse from a stable while a man lies sprawled in the foreground, with a Latin inscription

Hercules Stealing the Horses of Diomedes

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre on a rock with the Muses making music in a forest, a winged horse at upper left.

Apollo on Parnassus (Apollon sur le Parnasse)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of Diana and Orion in a forest with attendants, hunting dogs, and a leaping deer, with a Latin caption below.

Diana accepts the huntsman Orion into her company (Diane admettant en sa compagnie le chasseur orion)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraving of an old man in a canopied bed with a kneeling son and a woman, with a landscape visible through arches.

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Etching of a landscape with ruins on a hillside, a mountain beyond, and two men and a dog in the foreground near water.

View of hillside with ruins (an aqueduct?) and mountain crag beyond, in the foreground a man kneels on the grass besi…

Karel Dujardin, 1658

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in armor and ruff collar, with French verse inscription below.

Philip Emanuel de Loraine

Thomas de Leu, 16th-17th century

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in armour and lace collar, surrounded by helmets, weapons and a Latin inscription.

Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers

Thomas de Leu, 16th-17th century

Henry Fielding

William Hogarth, ca. 1835

Pen drawing in an oval frame of figures in period dress in an interior, with a card table and seated woman at right.

The Rape of the Lock

William Hogarth, 19th century (?)

Hogarth's 1728 print of a stage performance of The Beggar's Opera with masked actors, musicians, and an audience in galleries

The Beggar's Opera

William Hogarth, 1728

Etching of a large tree with exposed roots by a stream, a man walking with cattle, and hills under a cloudy sky.

Tree with roots laid bare alongside a stream, a hilly landscape and a man walking behind quadrupeds beyond

Karel Dujardin, 1659

Engraving of a seated bearded man at a stone block with a nude figure leaning over, watched by helmeted soldiers and a crowd.

Untitled - Etienne Delaune, 1540

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Etching of a cow, sheep and lamb resting in grass, with a shepherd peering from behind a tree and a village on a hill.

Cow, adult sheep, and young sheep lying in the grass; beyond, a shepherd stands partially behind a tree

Karel Dujardin, 1656

Engraved plate with two fur-clad figures, a reindeer, and medallion portraits on a pedestal inscribed LAPONIA.

Laponia (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, pl. 312)

William Hogarth, 1723-24

Engraving of a seated couple in an ornate room, with a horned satyr figure beside them and a tea service on a table.

Lafontaine Tales, Amsterdam

Joseph de Longueil, 1763

Etching of five standing figures in fur-trimmed robes and tall hats across a hilly landscape, labeled e to i.

Five Standing Muscovites (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London…

William Hogarth, 1723-24

Etching of a woman leading a camel past a covered wagon and domed building in a flat landscape, with scale bars below.

Two Dromedaries (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, p…

William Hogarth, 1723-24

Medal

Gerard Edelinck, 17th-18th century

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat writing with a quill at a desk beside an organ and books.

Thomas Morell, S.T.P.- S.S.A.

the elder James Basire, February 1762

Etching of a religious ceremony with a priest holding a candle, an infant on a draped table, and a woman and onlookers beside

The Circumcision

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1764

Engraving of an allegorical woman in drapery holding a book among cacti, agave and large plants, titled La Botanique.

La Botanique, from the "Almanach iconologique"

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, ca. 1765-81