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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

Pen and grey wash drawing of a helmeted allegorical woman with a spear and horse, labeled EUROPA, with putti and ornate scrol

Allegory of Europe, from the Four Continents

Godfried Maes, 17th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of a standing man, a woman guiding a toddler, and a seated bearded man.

Studies of Two Men and a Woman Teaching a Child to Walk

Nicolaes Maes, 1645-50

Black chalk drawing of a curly-haired young boy with a lace collar, gazing forward within an arched border.

Portrait of a Young Boy

Frans van Mieris the Elder, 17th century

Watercolor of a shepherd boy with a pipe looking up at a winged child in pink clouds, with trees and sheep around him.

Songs of Innocence: Frontispiece

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page showing children playing on a green under a large tree, with a poem printed below in orange text.

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-coloured illuminated plate of children and adults on a green beneath vines, with a poem above.

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Innocence showing a child with sheep beside a cottage, poem text above, vine border.

Songs of Innocence: The Lamb

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page: a mother and child under a tree at sunrise, above the hand-lettered poem The Little Black Boy with decorati

Songs of Innocence: The Little Black Boy

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored Blake plate showing a seated elder under a willow with two children and sheep, with verse text above.

Songs of Innocence: The Little Black Boy (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a child pointing into a dark night landscape, above the poem The Little Boy Lost in orange lettering.

Songs of Innocence: Little Boy Lost

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored illustration of a haloed robed figure leading a small child through dark trees, with verse text below.

Songs of Innocence: The Little Boy Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-coloured illustration of a woman in a red robe bending over a sleeping infant in a cradle, with an inscribed verse above

Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a woman holding an infant under a tree beside sheep, and the verse 'Spring' below in orange text.

Songs of Innocence: Spring

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a child embracing a lamb beside sheep, with two verses of text and a swirling sun above.

Songs of Innocence: Spring (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a seated mother and infant under flame-like red forms, poem text and vine borders below.

Songs of Innocence: Infant Joy

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Page from Blake's Songs of Experience with the poem Holy Thursday, watercolor scenes of a standing woman, mountains and child

Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling figure before standing robed women on stone steps, after Rubens.

Presentation in the Temple

Peter Paul Rubens, recto 1611; verso 1601-2

Illuminated page with the poem The Little Girl Lost, two embracing figures, a lion, and a vine border in watercolor.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Blake illuminated page: a reclining woman in pink beside tents, and a lioness below beneath a branch, with poem text.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost (second plate); The Little Girl Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a poem in red text, showing a reclining nude, two children, lions, and a twisted tree.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Found (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored Blake page with a verse above a woman in pink combing a child's hair beside vines and a seated figure.

Songs of Experience: Nurses Song

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Watercolor illustration of a woman and child beneath a tree, with a winged figure and a poem about a fly above.

Songs of Experience: The Fly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with an old man in blue bending toward a child beside a brick wall, above the poem "London".

Songs of Experience: London

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page showing a mother in pink reaching for a naked infant on a bed beneath the poem Infant Sorrow.

Songs of Experience: Infant Sorrow

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with the poem A Little Boy Lost, kneeling figures, flames and a thorny green vine beside the text.

Songs of Experience: A Little Boy Lost

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored illuminated page of Blake's poem A Little Girl Lost, with red script and a tree with vines on the right.

Songs of Experience: A Little Girl Lost

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page of Blake's poem The School Boy, framed by vines with small children at the base and a climbing figure.

Songs of Experience: The School Boy

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Pen and white-heightened drawing on blue paper of Niobe's children being struck by arrows, with horses and a temple in the ba

Death of Niobe and Her Children

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a wooded river landscape with the Virgin and Child, a donkey, and kneeling angels in the foregr

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Herman van Swanevelt, mid-17th century

Grey wash drawing of allegorical figures in an arched niche, with a woman holding a chalice and a seated woman with children.

Allegorical Figures of Faith, Hope and Charity in a Niche

Jacob de Wit, early 18th century