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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,060 works

Etching of a crowded tavern interior with men smoking clay pipes, drinking, and sitting near a large fireplace.

Smokers at the Inn

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of a peasant man in a cap leaning on a half-open wooden door of a timber-framed building with leaded windows.

Peasant

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of an older man in a wide hat talking with a woman carrying a basket on a village street.

Conversation in the Street

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of a hooded woman and a man in a tall hat walking side by side on a plain ground.

Man and Woman Walking

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of two seated figures singing at a table while a violinist in a tall hat plays behind them in a dim room.

Singing Couples and Violin

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of a peasant family in a cluttered kitchen, with a woman nursing an infant by the hearth and a dog nearby.

The Family

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of peasant men gathered in a rustic courtyard beside a thatched cottage with a lattice window and open doorway.

Traveling Musicians

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etching of a man in a cap blowing a long horn beside hanging bread loaves and a wooden beam in a dark interior.

Baker Blowing Horn

Adriaen van Ostade, 1630-85

Etching of two men conversing in a street, one in a tall feathered hat and cloak, the other in a brimmed hat and coat.

Grotesque Figures

Adriaen van Ostade, 1630-85

Etching of two elderly women in headscarves talking in a village street, with trees, cottages and figures behind them.

Two Gossips

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Etched portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a brush, with dense hatched lines and a dark table at right.

James McNeill Whistler

Percy Thomas, 1874

Monochrome print of a man with curly hair, mustache and cravat, head tilted, shoulders sketched in soft strokes.

James McNeill Whistler

Paul Adolphe Rajon, ca. 1880

Soft grey lithographic portrait of a man with curly hair, a full mustache, and a dark jacket, with a feather in his hair.

Whistler with the White Lock

Thomas Robert Way, 1890-1900 (?)

Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Thomas Robert Way, 1892

Engraved portrait of a man with curly hair in a wide-lapelled overcoat and cravat, labeled George W. Whistler.

George W. Whistler, 1800-1849

William G. Jackman, 1841-60

Engraving of an allegorical cart procession with horses, chained figures, and a distant hilltop town beneath mountains.

The Triumph of Want, from The Cycle of the Vicissitudes of Human Affairs, plate 6

Cornelis Cort, 1564

Grey wash drawing of allegorical figures guiding cherubs toward a ship, with an eagle, shield and fruit in the foreground.

Allegories of Wisdom and Truth Leading the Infant Arts to America

John James Barralet, after 1796

Engraving of Psyche presenting a basket of treasures to two seated sisters before classical columns, with winged figures in c

Plate 11: Psyche gives presents to her sisters, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of two seated women and a standing woman in an interior with curtains, a column, and a sea view with boats.

Plate 12: Psyche's sisters persuade her a serpent is sleeping with her, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of Psyche speaking with two sisters before classical columns, with a winged Cupid above a rock and Italian verse be

Plate 15: Psyche relating her misfortunes to her sisters, from "The Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a phoenix on a tree above resting animals including stags, lions and a bull, with pigeons on a ruin at right.

A phoenix sat atop a tree, wings open, an assortment of animals below

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraved ornament panel with winged putti, acanthus scrolls, female term figures holding urns, and rosettes in symmetrical de

A panel of ornament with putti and other figures

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraved ornamental panel with putti, goats, a central urn, scrollwork and a grotesque mask at the base.

A panel of ornament with putti, goat and other figures

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraved ornamental panel with a winged putto holding a windmill, flanked by eagles, acanthus scrolls and a grotesque mask.

A panel of ornament with a putto in the centre holding a windmill

Master of the Die, 1532

Engraved ornamental panel with a central urn, two draped figures, putti, winged lions and dolphins among acanthus scrolls.

A panel of ornament with a large jar in centre, putti and other figures

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of two gladiators with swords and shields fighting before a classical arch and colonnade.

Two gladiators fighting in front of an arch

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraving of a muscular man carrying an older man on his shoulders with a child beside him, a burning city behind.

Aeneas carrying Anchises on his shoulders while Troy burns in the background

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Engraved ornamental panel with putti, acanthus scrolls, fruit baskets, winged birds and classical figures holding flaming urn

A panel of ornament, putti standing on cornucopia in lower section

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Etching of the Circumcision of Christ: an infant on a draped table, a priest, and onlookers in a columned interior.

The Circumcision of Christ

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1542-46

Etching of Saint Andrew, a bearded man in a draped robe, carrying a large diagonal cross over his shoulder.

Saint Andrew holding a large cross, from "Christ and the Apostles"

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1548-50