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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Engraving of a fashionable interior with a harpsichordist, a crowd of gentlemen and ladies, and a long unrolling score.

A Rake's Progress, Plate 2

William Hogarth, June 25, 1735

Engraving of an 18th-century London street with a sedan chair, a woman in white, a beggar, and a figure pouring from a window

A Rake's Progress, Plate 4

William Hogarth, June 25, 1735

Engraving of revelers drinking and gambling in a crowded interior, with a seated woman in the foreground amid scattered cloth

A Rake's Progress, Plate 3

William Hogarth, June 25, 1735

Engraving of a workhouse interior with a gentleman and two fashionable women at left and working women and children at right.

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 4

William Hogarth, before April 1732

Engraving of a cluttered bedchamber with a canopied bed, fireplace, seated woman, two wigged men and a kneeling woman at a tr

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5

William Hogarth, before April 1732

Etching of a crowded tavern-like room with women at a card table, a small child on the floor, and a bottle in the foreground.

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 6

William Hogarth, before April 1732

Etching of mounted hunters in turbans spearing a lion that attacks a rearing horse, with a palm tree and hills behind.

Lion Hunt, from 'Hunting Scenes IV'

Antonio Tempesta, late 16th century

Engraved print of a battle scene with armored warriors, horsemen, tents and ships, above an Italian verse cartouche.

Plate 17: Illustration to Canto XVII, from Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata III"

Antonio Tempesta, ca. 1590-1630

Engraving of an armored knight in an enchanted forest with women, a city battle and verse text in a decorative frame.

Plate 18: Illustration to Canto XVIII, from Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata III"

Antonio Tempesta, ca. 1590-1630

Engraving of the Tomb of Mausolus with colonnades, steps, horsemen and workers, smoke rising in the distance.

Plate 5: The Tomb of Mausolus, from "The Seven Wonders of the World"

Antonio Tempesta, 1608

Engraving of the pyramids in Egypt with workers, oxen, camels and carts moving stone blocks in the foreground.

The Pyramids in Egypt, plate 7 from "The Seven Wonders of The World"

Antonio Tempesta, 1608

Etching of Mercury with a caduceus pointing at seated Aglauros as a standing woman gestures beside a pillar in a classical in

Mercury Turning Aglauros to Stone (Aglauros a Mercurio in lapidem transformatur), plate 20 from "The Metamorphoses of…

Antonio Tempesta, Published after 1606

Engraving of a tiered classical funerary monument with columns, a pediment with coat of arms, and figures in a central niche.

Cœnotaphiorum (2)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraved tomb monument with a reclining effigy, cherub, dogs and caryatid supports, with Latin inscription below.

Cœnotaphiorum (4)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of a tomb with a reclining armored effigy, cherubs, and fluted columns, with Latin verse below.

Cœnotaphiorum (9)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of a tomb with a reclining armored effigy under Corinthian columns, with figures in a doorway at right.

Cœnotaphiorum (10)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of an ornate sarcophagus with sea battle reliefs, a sculpted figure, and a coat of arms in an architectural interio

Cœnotaphiorum (11)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraved tomb monument with an armored effigy praying on a columned sarcophagus, a standing knight with banner, and Latin ins

Cœnotaphiorum (12)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of a recumbent armored effigy on an ornate tomb with putti, wild men and heraldic shields, with Latin verse below.

Cœnotaphiorum (15)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of an ornate tomb with a reclining armoured effigy, cherubs, heraldic shields, a dog and a lion in an interior.

Cœnotaphiorum (16)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of a tomb with a reclining armored effigy, putti, coat of arms, and female figures in niches, with Latin text below

Cœnotaphiorum (17)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of an elaborate classical tomb with columns, a reclining effigy, and winged sphinx figures, with Latin text below.

Cœnotaphiorum (19)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of a recumbent effigy on an ornate tomb with cherubs, a skull in a niche, and Latin verse below.

Cœnotaphiorum (20)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of two ornate tomb monuments with columns, winged putti, skulls, and Latin inscriptions below.

Cœnotaphiorum (22)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraved plate of two ornate funerary monuments with sarcophagi, putti, heraldic shields and skulls, numbered 23.

Cœnotaphiorum (23)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraved design of a tall classical funerary monument with columns, niches, putti, and figures, with Latin verses below.

Cœnotaphiorum (27)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of Theseus with sword and shield fighting the Minotaur in an arena, numbered plate 74 with Latin caption.

Theseus and the Minotaur (Minotaurum Theseus vincit), plate 74 from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid" (Metamorphosean Sive…

Antonio Tempesta, Published after 1606

Etching of a woman on horseback under a canopy entering a city, with soldiers, trumpeters and men in ruffs before a stone gat

Triumphal Entry of Margaret of Austria into Milan, from The Life of Margaret of Austria, plate 10

Antonio Tempesta, 1612

Engraving of an equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius on a tall inscribed pedestal, rider in cloak on rearing horse.

Marcus Aurelius, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Cornelis Bos, 16th century

Engraving of a muscular nude statue of Hercules holding a club, standing on a garlanded pedestal within an architectural nich

Hercules with the apples of the Hesperides, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Diana Scultori, 1581