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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,401 works

Etching of two seated women and a child stringing beads in a dark interior beside a fireplace and shuttered window.

Bead Stringers

James McNeill Whistler, 1879-80

Wood engraving of a boy offering a treat to another boy with eyes closed on a city street with barrels and a gas lamp.

Open Your Mouth and Shut Your Eyes (from "Harper's Weekly")

John George Brown, May 16, 1874

Engraving of three boys raiding a sand-swallow colony on a sandy bank while birds fly overhead, by Winslow Homer, 1874.

Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs?" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, June 13, 1874

Wood engraving of children picking berries in a meadow, with a sailboat on the sea and clouds overhead.

Gathering Berries (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, July 11, 1874

Wood engraving of a standing speaker gesturing to a seated crowd around a campfire, with tepees and bare trees behind.

Around the Council Fire, The Young Brave's Speech, from "Harper's Weekly"

Edwin Austin Abbey, May 10, 1873

Sepia drawing of a young girl in a bonnet beside a small dog, framed in a neoclassical architectural niche with a carved head

Portrait of a Girl and Her Dog

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, ca. 1796-97

Engraving of boys linked in a snap-the-whip game running across a meadow beside a schoolhouse and wooded hills.

Snap-the-Whip (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, September 20, 1873

Wood engraving of children in a rowboat on harbor water, with sailboats and a cloudy sky behind them.

Gloucester Harbor (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, September 27, 1873

Engraving of children playing at low tide on a beach, with shoes on the sand, wading figures and distant ships.

Low Tide (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)

Winslow Homer, August 6, 1870

Wood engraving of three boys in tall grass watching a loaded stagecoach travel a road toward distant hills, on a magazine cov

On the Road to Lake George (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)

Winslow Homer, July 24, 1869

Colored lithograph of many figures in period dress skating on a frozen park pond, with a fallen skater and a Dangerous sign.

Skating in Central Park, New York

Winslow Homer, 1861

Etching of a haloed bearded figure raising his hand before a crowd of sick and kneeling people in a town street.

Healing the Infirm (Jésus-Christ guérit plusieurs malades en Galilée)

Etching of Christ healing a paralytic lowered through a roof while a crowd watches, with a Latin caption below.

Healing the Paralytic (Jésus-Christ prouve en guérissant un paralytique, qu'il a le pouvoir de pardonner les péchés)

Engraving of a couple on a terrace smelling flowers, with a formal garden and dogs beside a stone balustrade.

Smell

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1638

Engraving of a schoolmistress teaching young girls in a furnished room with a window, a dog, and a sweeping servant.

The School Mistress

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1638

Engraving of a reclining bearded river god with cornucopia, a she-wolf and two infants, framed by a border of boats and anima

The Tiber, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Nicolas Béatrizet, mid-16th century

Engraving of a giant fish with a horn-blowing rider and cherubs on sea creatures, with fountains and gabled buildings behind.

Fish Construction in Honor of the Entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand into Ghent in 1635

Anton van der Does, 1636

Red chalk style print of a young woman leaning on an open book beside a classical bust and sketched heads.

Painting - Gilles Demarteau

Gilles Demarteau

Pencil and wash drawing of a draped woman with a water jug beside a small child in a wooded landscape.

Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness (recto); Two portrait studies of the artist's wife, and a study of a leg and tors…

George Richmond, 1829-33

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with cherubs and an angel holding a cross, heightened with white.

Virgin and Child, and Saint John the Baptist (recto); Summary sketches, possibly the Virgin and Child (verso)

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Etching of a kneeling woman holding a young child up beside a column, inside a room with shelves and an open doorway.

The Father's Leave-Taking

William Holman Hunt, 1879

Sepia drawing of a woman with long hair leaning over a reed-covered basket among bulrushes, with figures and a balustrade beh

Miriam Watching the Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes

Simeon Solomon, February 22, 1859

Study of the Right Leg of a Male Child

Dense engraving of allegorical scenes of human folly, with a central globe, ladder, fighting figures and a skeleton with a sc

The Cage of Fools (La gabbia de' matti)

Sebastiano di Re, 1557-63

Engraved Holy Family scene: seated Virgin with infant Christ, Saint Joseph offering flowers, donkey and tree beside them.

Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right…

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1550-early 20th century

Red chalk drawing of Christ carrying the cross amid a crowd of soldiers and mourners, with a colonnade and hilltop crosses be

Christ Carrying the Cross

Pierre Mignard I, ca. 1684

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd carrying stones past a palm tree, with an obelisk and a cloud-borne figure above.

The Jews Collecting the Twelve Stones from the River Jordan

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, ca. 1535-38

Engraved genre scene of two women, a startled man with a hat and basket, children and a dog at a stone doorway.

Le Geste Napolitain

Pierre Étienne Moitte, 1763

Pencil and chalk drawing of a woman in a lace bonnet seated with a young fair-haired boy leaning against her.

Mrs. Papendiek and Her Son

Thomas Lawrence, 1789

Watercolor sketch of a boy with a blue pail looking up at a woman in a bonnet, with a child peeking from behind her.

"Have You Been to the Pump, Simpson?"

John Leech, 1837-64