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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Engraving of a chaotic street crowd with men fighting around a sedan chair, pigs, a donkey, and onlookers at windows.

Chairing the Members, Plate IV: Four Prints of an Election

William Hogarth, January 1, 1758

Engraved portrait of a seated bishop in ceremonial robes and chain, with stained glass windows behind him, dated 1743.

The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of…

William Hogarth, 1743

Engraved print of a seated man with a palette at an easel sketching a classical figure labeled Comedy 1764.

William Hogarth, Serjeant Painter to His Majesty

William Hogarth, 1764

Engraving of a crowded street with marching soldiers, a drummer, a flag bearer, and onlookers at brick house windows.

The March to Finchley--A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland in the Year 1745

Luke Sullivan, June 12, 1761

Engraving of an elegant 18th-century interior with men at a table holding papers, a seated woman, and a dog.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate I

Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, April 1, 1745

Engraving of a disordered room with a man leaning over a kneeling woman, a fallen sword, and startled onlookers at the door.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V

the elder Simon Francis Ravenet, April 1745

Engraving of an elegant 18th-century drawing room with a seated man, a woman at a tea table, and a surprised standing man.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II

Bernard Baron, April 1, 1745

Engraving of a bearded man hauling a fishing net beside a sea serpent, with a trident figure and ships on a coast.

Zebulun, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a seated bearded patriarch beside a coiled serpent, a rearing horse with an archer rider, and a reclining woman.

Dan, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of two seated nude men beside a deer, one holding a serpent-wrapped staff, with a landscape behind.

Naphtali, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a muscular man beside a wolf attacking a sheep, with a winged serpent-tailed figure above and ruins behind.

Benjamin, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of a muscular armored man with a sword and skull among ruins, a draped woman, a cat, and a distant classical city.

Simeon, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Engraving of the Descent from the Cross with Christ's body lowered by men on a ladder and mourners below.

The Descent from the Cross, from The Fall and Salvation of Mankind through the Life and Passion of Christ, plate 27

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1548

Engraving of a robed man gesturing toward a seated commander and helmeted soldiers beneath a draped canopy.

Achior Pleading with Holofernes for the Israelites, from "The Story of Judith and Holofernes"

Maarten van Heemskerck

Engraving of a violent battle with nude and armored men, a rearing horse, and a divine figure in clouds above.

The Conversion of Saul

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1549

Pen and wash drawing of monks watching workmen topple a seated statue of Apollo from a classical temple beneath a large tree.

Benedict of Nursia Orders the Destruction of the Temple of Apollo at Monte Cassino

Jan Erasmus Quellinus, mid-17th-early 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a standing young washerwoman in a headband, carrying a bundle of cloth against her hip.

A Standing Young Washerwoman

Jacob van Strij, late 18th-early 19th century

Portrait of a Young Man

Wilhelm von Kügelgen, mid-19th century

Etching of a bearded man sleeping under a gnarled tree while a raven flies toward him, with ruins and an aqueduct in the dist

Elijah Fed by Ravens

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1549

Engraving of two muscular male wrestlers entwined in a hold, rendered in fine parallel lines against a hatched background.

Two Wrestlers, from Wrestlers, plate 4

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1552

Engraving of two nude male fencers with raised and lowered swords, shown in dynamic stances against hatched background.

Two Fencers, from Fencers, plate 7

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1552

Engraving of two nude male fencers in lunging stances, crossing swords against a hatched background.

Two Fencers, from Fencers, plate 5

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1552

Engraved print of a sibyl with a tray and three women inside an ornate frame decorated with putti and satyr masks.

The Cumeaean sibyl walking to the right and carrying a tray, followed by three women, set within an elaborate frame

Battista d'Agnolo, ca. 1540-80

Brown and white wash drawing of a bishop saint trampling fallen figures, with Christ in clouds above and bishops beside him.

Saint Lambert Trampling his Murderers, Surrounded by the Four Church Fathers

Antoine Sallaert, early 17th-mid 17th century

Etching of a dense forest with a large oak, where a figure pursues another among reeds beside a stream.

Landscape with Pan and Syrinx, from "Six Mythological Scenes"

Anthonie Waterloo

Etching of a gnarled tree and a hunter with dogs in a hilly landscape with pines and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a hunter and his dogs

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Chalk drawing of a man with long hair, mustache and goatee, turned slightly to the side, on toned paper.

Portrait of Louis XIII

Simon Vouet, ca. 1632-35

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of Puritan townspeople in a market place, with a woman holding an infant before a wooden door.

The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879

Pen drawing of a crowd on a wooden scaffold in a village, with kneeling figures and a standing woman by a pillory.

Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879

Engraved rococo plate of a woman on a swing under garlands, with a man pushing her and a landscape cartouche below.

L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux…

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1740