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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,286 works

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-colored page of Blake's Night showing poem text, a slender tree, a crescent moon and small angel figures in blue and gre

Songs of Innocence: Night

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Innocence with poem On Anothers Sorrow, framed by a tree and decorative border.

Songs of Innocence: On Anothers Sorrow

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Pen and brown ink drawing of a pastoral scene with shepherds, a well, sheep, cattle and large trees beside a river.

The Meeting of Jacob And Rachel at the Well

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640-49

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 page of Blake's poems My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower and The Lilly, with a watercolor vignette of two figur

Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lilly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Experience with the poem A Poison Tree, a tree, and a reclining figure below.

Songs of Experience: A Poison Tree

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Oval drawing on blue paper of nymphs reclining and dancing beside satyrs, one lifting a vessel, under a tree.

Nymphs And Satyrs

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and white-heightened drawing of nymphs dancing in a circle in a wooded glade, with seated musicians at the edges.

Dancing Nymphs in a Glade

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and wash landscape of two figures talking in a field, a church tower and trees on the horizon, cloudy sky.

Landscape with Two Figures Conversing

Salomon van Ruysdael, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a cottage among trees, with a man and dog crossing a wooden footbridge at right.

House among Trees, at Right Man and Dog on a Footbridge

Jacob van Ruisdael, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a river with a masted sailing boat and rowboat beside a densely wooded bank.

River Scene with Boats before a densely Wooded Bank

Salomon van Ruysdael, 17th 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

Pen and brown wash drawing of a horse-drawn covered carriage on a road beside a leaning tree and a horseman.

Carriage In A Landscape

Gérard ter Borch, 17th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a man in a tricorn hat handing a letter to a woman beside a tree on a cobbled street.

Scene From A Comedy

Jacob Buys, 1740-1801

Drawing of a wooded landscape with a large tree, a winding path, and a distant village on blue-grey paper.

Wooded Landscape with a House by a River

Lucas van Uden, 17th century

Ink and brown wash drawing of a spreading tree with drooping branches on a grassy mound.

Study of a Tree

Marten van Valckenborch, mid-16th-early 17th century

Pen and ink landscape of jagged mountains, pine trees, a wooden bridge over a river, and travelers on a road.

Mountainous Landscape with Travelers on a Road

Tobias Verhaecht, 1616

Brown ink drawing of a river landscape with trees, shrubs, clouds, and a traveler with a dog on a path.

River Landscape with Traveler

Cornelis Vroom, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of bare trees framing a stone arched bridge and a house with a steep roof beside a path.

A House near a Bridge

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Pencil drawing of thatched farm buildings, a mill wheel, a rowboat and a bare tree in a rolling landscape.

Landscape with a Mill (recto); A Steepled Façade and Farm House (verso)

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a river winding past leaning trees and a wooden gate under a pale sky.

River Landscape

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a farmyard courtyard with a stone arch, wooden gates, a barred shed and tall trees behind.

Courtyard of a Farmhouse

Thomas Wijck, 1629-77

Brown ink and wash drawing of a river with boats, a large tree, and buildings along the banks.

River View in Italy

Gaspar Adriaensz. van Wittel, mid-17th-mid-18th century

Engraving of a helmeted tooth-puller on horseback pulling a tooth from a woman while a crowd watches in a town street.

The Tooth-Puller

Pieter van der Borcht

Etched landscape with hills, a walled town by a river, grazing cattle, and a mythological chariot in the clouds above.

Landscape with Mercury Holding Argus's Head

Hieronymus Cock, 16th century

Etching of a village road with thatched cottages, a post mill, cultivated fields, and a rider on horseback.

Fields with a Village Road with Post Mill, from the series The Small Landscapes (Multifariarum Casularum)

Johannes van Doetecum I, 1559-61

Engraved landscape with a rocky hill, hermitage chapel, kneeling saint, lion, crucifix, and village in the valley.

Landscape with Saint Jerome

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70

Etching of a river landscape with a large tree, boats, a walled town, a rocky mountain, and birds in the sky.

Mountain Landscape

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70