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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,010 works

Engraving of Cupid on a chariot drawn by four horses, with figures on foot, a temple and a hilltop town behind.

Triumph of Love: four horses draw a carriage with Cupid standing upon a smoking platform, preceded by gods and goddes…

Georg Pencz, ca. 1539

Engraved ornament print of a candle chandelier with horse-headed arabesques and scrollwork, numbered 39.

A fantastic chandelier with burning candles and arabesques, some ending in fantastic horse forms, from "Neue Grotessk…

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1610

Four oval etchings of putti riding and battling sea monsters, a lobster and hybrid creatures, in grotesque ornament style.

Putti with Sea Monsters, from "Neue Grotessken Buch"

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1610

Four oval engravings of winged putti riding and wrestling sea monsters over clouds and water, with distant coastlines.

Four Ovals with Genii, from "Neue Grotessken Buch"

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1610

Etching of a satyr carrying another figure on his back while a young satyr wades through water beside dense foliage.

Satyr family, on the move

Salomon Gessner, 18th century

Etching of a satyr playing a pipe with dancing putti, one holding a tambourine and another a mask, beside a low wall.

Satyr playing a pipe beside a putti holding a mask, surrounded by putti climbing over a low wall and dancing with mus…

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Etching of a woman seated by a river with two satyrs, ruined arched aqueduct and trees in the background.

Corsica seated before satyrs on the bank of a river, from a pair of plates for Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor fido"

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1640

Etching of satyrs carrying a drunken Silenus, with a putto holding grapes and a woman at left.

Three satyrs carrying the drunken Silenus, preceded by a putto carrying grapes; behind them a satyr carrying a large…

Jonas Umbach, 1640-93

Etching of a peasant family eating at a table while a satyr with goat legs sits on a chair beside cabbages.

The Satyr and the Peasant

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1764

Etched title page showing harbor ships, a fortified wall, and two figures beside a ship's rigging and barrels, dated 1652.

Title page from "Quelque navieres deisseigner & graver par Remy Zeeman"

Reinier Nooms, 1652

Etching of three trees on a hill under stormy clouds, with a flat plain, distant town, and cattle at right.

The Three Trees, after Rembrandt

Captain William E. Baillie, 1758

Brown and white wash drawing of Venus at left with cupids playing around trees in an oval landscape.

Venus at left in the company of cupids playing

Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1520-27

Etching of women on a riverbank reaching toward an infant lying in a cloth among reeds.

The finding of Moses who is rescued from the Nile by the maidservants of Pharaoh's daughter

Bartolomeo Biscaino, 1650-57

Engraved title plate with two putti flanking a cartouche reading Opere di Polidoro da Caravaggio, within a laurel arch.

Titeplate to series of prints after Poloidoro

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, 1658

Etched plate of Roman military trophies with a winged Victory, shields, spears, ram heads and a Medusa mask, 1656-58.

Plate 1: trophies of Roman arms from decorations above the windows on the second floor of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, 1656-58

Etching of a lion head with shields, arms trophies and scrollwork above an inscribed oval panel.

Plate 2: trophies of Roman arms from decorations above the windows on the second floor of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, 1656-58

Etching of ornate Roman helmet, shield, axe and ram's head trophies with scrollwork, inscribed Polidoro da Caravag. 1656.

Plate 3: trophies of Roman arms from decorations above the windows on the second floor of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, 1656

Etching of Pan reclining with two satyrs, a large vase on a pedestal, a sheep, and trees under a distant landscape.

Pan reclining at left with two standing satyrs, a large vase on a pedestal at right

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1645

Engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds with Moses and prophets holding scrolls in a stone interior, by Jacob Matham, 158

The Adoration of the Shepherds, Surrounded by Moses and Five Prophets

Jacob Matham, 1588

Pen and ink print of women with lamps in a classical arched interior, with a bridegroom figure among them and an inscription

The Wise and the Foolish Virgins

Francesco Zuccarelli, 1728

Engraving of a crowded London street with a Lord Mayor's carriage surrounded by apprentices, onlookers, and balconies.

The Industrious 'Prentice Lord Mayor of London (Industry and Idleness, plate12)

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of St. Cecilia reclining as attendants gather and an angel descends above with a wreath, in an arched interior.

The Death of St. Cecilia

Johann Friedrich Greuter, ca. 1640-60

Engraving of a crowded 18th-century London street with a carriage, banners, soldiers, and spectators at windows.

The Industrious 'Prentice Lord Mayor of London: Industry and Idleness, plate 12

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of idle apprentices gambling on a tomb in a churchyard, with skulls and a standing man holding a cane.

The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Church Yard (Industry and Idleness, plate 3)

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a night cellar: a watchman with a lantern, a pointing woman, and card players by a fireplace.

The Idle 'Prentice Betrayed by his Whore and Taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice (Industry and Idleness, plat…

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a crowded courtroom with a seated alderman holding his head beside a writing clerk and standing witnesses.

The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, The Idle One Brought Before Him and Impeached by his Accomplices (Indus…

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Hand-colored print of a hilltop castle above a lake, with women at a stone fountain and trees in the foreground.

Bracciano, plate 2 from "Views of Rome and Its Environs"

Edward Lear, 1841

Etching of Roman arms trophies with shields, an eagle, a grotesque mask, lion and boar heads, and scrollwork.

Plate 4: trophies of Roman arms from decorations above the windows on the second floor of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, 1656-58

Etching of ornate Roman military trophies with plumed helmets, a griffin, lion heads and feathers, with Italian inscription.

Plate 5: trophies of Roman arms from decorations above the windows on the second floor of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, 1658

Engraving of nude figures, animals and a cornucopia in an idyllic wooded landscape, The Golden Age after Adriaen Matham, 1620

The Golden Age

Adriaen Matham, 1620