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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,937 works

Etching of a small grotesque man in a tall feathered hat, holding a sword and cane, by Jacques Callot.

L'Homme au Ventre Tombant et au Chapeau Très Élevé (The Man with a Drooping Belly and a Very Tall Hat), from "Varie F…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a grotesque short man with a plumed hat, huge belly with button row, and a sword at his side.

L'Homme au Gros Ventre Orné d'une Rangée de Boutons (Man with a Large Belly Decorated with a Row of Buttons), from "V…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a hunchbacked man in a feathered hat and loose cloak, leaning on a long cane as he walks.

Le Bossu a La Canne (The Hunchback with a Cane), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmée…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a hunched, crippled man with a crutch and wooden leg, wearing a hooded cloak and glancing sideways.

L'Estropié a la Béquille et a La Jambe de Bois (The Cripple with a Crutch and a Wooden Leg), from "Varie Figure Gobbi…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a bandy-legged man in a plumed hat playing a guitar with an exaggerated, open-mouthed expression.

Le Bancal Jouant de La Guitar (The Bandy-Legged Man Playing the Guitar), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée auss…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a hunchbacked figure seen from behind, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, cloak and boots, with a rolled bundle.

Le Buveur Vu de Dos (The Drinker Seen from Behind), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pyg…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a grotesque masked figure with crooked legs holding a sword, from Jacques Callot's hunchback series.

L'Homme Masqué aux Jambes Torses (The Masked Man with Crooked Legs), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Le…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a stout man seen from behind, with a plumed hat, a row of back buttons, a sword, and one outstretched arm.

L'Homme au Gros Dos Orné d'Une Rangée de Boutons (Man with a Large Back Ornamented with a Row of Buttons), from "Vari…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a hunchbacked man in a feathered hat grasping a long sword, grimacing, standing on a ground line.

L'Homme S'Apprêtant a Tirer son Sabre (Man Preparing to Draw his Sword), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée auss…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Le Duelliste a L'Épée et au Poignard (The Duelist with a Sword and Daggar), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée a…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a grotesque hunchbacked duelist in striped costume lunging with two curved sabres.

The Duelliste aux Deux Sabres (The Duelist with Two Sabres), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a small grotesque dwarf in a wide hat and cloak playing a violin, by Jacques Callot.

Le Joueur de Violon (The Violin Player), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les N…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a masked comedian in a bird-beaked mask playing a guitar while striding forward in a buttoned costume.

Le Comédien Masqué Jouant de la Guitare (The Masked Comedian Playing the Guitar), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite app…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

L'Estropié au Capuchon (The Beggar Wearing a Hood), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pyg…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a stout hunchbacked man in a feathered cap raising a cup and holding a jug, by Jacques Callot.

Le Beveur vu de Face (The Drinker Viewed from the Front), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, L…

Jacques Callot, 1616-22

Etching of a wheat field with a country house and trees on the horizon, and a seated figure with a dog in the lower left.

View of Ranby's House

William Hogarth, May 1, 1781

Engraving of a night cellar with a fireplace, a woman holding a lantern, and men gambling and sleeping among overturned furni

The Idle 'Prentice Betrayed by his Whore and Taken into a Night Cellar with his Accomplice: Industry and Idleness, pl…

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved crowd scene with a gallows, soldiers with pikes, spectators on stands and street hawkers in the foreground.

The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn (Industry and Idleness, plate 11)

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of apprentices gambling on a tomb in a churchyard as a man with a cane looms over them, skulls and bones nearby.

The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Churchyard: Industry and Idleness, plate 3

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved street scene of musicians and drummers in a wedding procession beside a shop doorway with onlookers and a dog.

The Industrious 'Prentice Out of his Time and Married to his Master's Daughter: Industry and Idleness, plate 6

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a rowing boat on choppy water with an apprentice, a woman in a cloak, and a man at the oars; ships behind.

The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a sailor and a woman startled in a cluttered garret bedroom beside a fireplace and bed.

The Idle 'Prentice Returned from Sea and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute: Industry and Idleness, plate 7

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved scene of a crowded civic banquet in a hall, with feasting diners at a long table and a robed official at right.

The Industrious 'Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London: Industry and Idleness, plate 8

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a church interior with an apprentice and young woman sharing a hymnal in a pew, organ and congregation behind.

The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: IIndustry and Idleness, plate 2

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a church interior with an apprentice and young woman singing from a hymnal in a pew, an organ and congregation b

The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: Industry and Idleness, plate 2

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of a master and apprentice at a desk beside a workshop of spinners, with a cat and dog in the foreground.

The Industrious 'Prentice a Favorite, and Entrusted by his Master: Industry and Idleness, plate 4

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraving of crowns, a mace, sceptre, mitre and books piled beneath a sunburst, with printed text panels below.

Crowns, Mitres, Maces, etc.

William Hogarth, 1755

Etching of seated men in ruffed collars at a table, one balancing an egg, with a standing figure and column behind them.

Columbus Breaking the Egg

William Hogarth, December 1, 1753

Engraving of two apprentices at looms in a workshop, one idle beside a dog, with a well-dressed man and a book at right.

The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms: Industry and Idleness, plate 1

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved courtroom scene of a seated alderman before accused apprentices, with a clerk writing and a crowd behind a railing.

The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle One Brought Before Him & Impeached by his Accomplice: Industry…

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Engraved still life of piled arms, trumpets, shields and flags on a plinth, with a subscription receipt printed below.

A Stand of Arms, Musical Instruments, etc.

William Hogarth, March 1749-50

Engraving of eight fish in symmetrical rows around a central fish, titled Pisces, One of the Signs in the Zodiac.

Pisces: Hogarth's Quadrille Fish

William Hogarth, ca. 1730

Lithograph of a young woman in a corset and chemise beside a hanging petticoat, a hatbox in hand, in a cluttered room.

Rien n'est si joli que la fable, si triste que la vérité!, plate 30 from the suite Les Lorettes, published in "Le Cha…

Paul Gavarni, October 21, 1842

Two circular etched compositions with framed vignettes of elephants, lions, monkeys, birds and hunters in landscapes.

Designs for Plates Taken from Oudry's Illustrations to La Fontaine's Fables

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, after 1755

Engraving of a reclining piper under a large oak beside a standing shepherd gesturing toward grazing cattle and sheep.

Mercury and Battus, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

Robert Willemsz de Baudous, after 1590

Etching of a couple embracing in a rocky cave as a turbaned servant spills a bucket and another man looks on.

L'intrigue découverte

Hand-colored caricature of three figures, a stout British officer, a woman with a child, and a French officer, gesturing at o

Recontre d'Anglais a Paris; Le Suprême Bon-Ton No. 23

Le Jeune Adrien Pierre Godefroy, ca. 1815

Hand-colored 1815 print of three stylized fashionable figures in London-style dress, including a man in a top hat between two

L'Amour et les Graces Arrivant de Londres; Le Suprême Bon-Ton No. 24

Le Jeune Adrien Pierre Godefroy, 1815

Lithograph of a hunched man with a lantern gathering pamphlets beside a tombstone at night, with a basket on his back.

Masked Man using a Lantern to Collect Discarded Pamphlets by a Tombstone, from "Le Charivari"

Bénard, ca. 1830

Hand-colored print of two performers in exaggerated period costume, a teal dress and a pink bodice with purple skirt, January

Potier et Brunet, Dans le duo des Anglaises pour Rire, from "Théâtre des Variétés"

Gautier, January 1815

Etching of a seated woman reading beside a standing man with a wicker basket, with foliage behind them.

Sheet of Sketches, from "Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart"

François Boucher, 1735

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man greeting a gaunt man holding a fish, with a pierrot figure and street crowd behind.

Hé c'est l'ami Carême!, Musée Grotesque No. 53

Aaron Martinet, early 19th century

Hand-colored caricature of a stout man taking a dance lesson beside a small dog while a violinist plays.

Lord-tolan prenant sa leçon de dance, La Passions, No. 7

Basset, 19th century

Hand-colored print of a rider on a chestnut horse beside a cane-carrying man, with a seated crowd under trees.

Le Boulevard de Gand à Paris

Georges-Jacques Gatine, 19th century

Engraved print of a nude youth flying past a tree trunk with billowing drapery, with a river and mountains behind.

Zephyr

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1864

Engraved title page with rococo cartouche, two putti and a standing nude figure framing the lettering.

Title Page, from "Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart"

François Boucher, 1735

Split-face caricature print with curly dark hair on one side and a powdered wig on the other, labeled 'The Mask'.

The Mask

James Sayers, May 21, 1783

Ink and grey wash drawing of an angel blowing a trumpet above a crowd of figures with raised arms.

The Last Trumpet (recto); Two studies of a right eye, a profile of an open-mouthed young man, the head of an eagle, a…

William Blake, 1780-85

Lithograph of a reclining man attended by grotesque mourners as an armored winged woman with spear and shield descends.

Repas de Corps. Epoque Mémorable de 1821

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, 1821

Colored print of a church interior with a domed ceiling, columns, rows of seated worshippers, and an altarpiece.

St. Stephen's Walbrook, plate 90 from "Microcosm of London"

Thomas Rowlandson, November 1, 1809

Hand-colored print of a domed lecture hall with a crowd of spectators watching a lecturer at a demonstration table.

Surrey Institution, plate 81 from "Microcosm of London"

Thomas Rowlandson, September 1, 1809

Engraving of the south east facade of St Paul's Cathedral, London, with a large dome, towers, and figures in the street.

The South East Prospect of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, from "Overton's Prospects"

Benjamin Cole, 1720-30

Etching of a woodland path with a herdsman, cattle, and a dog beneath trees, with a bright sunburst through the leaves.

The Herdsman's Cottage, or Sunset

Samuel Palmer, 1880

Etching of revelers in a woodland with a radiant Bacchus figure, above a vignette of children harvesting grapes by a ladder.

The Vine, or Plumpy Bacchus

Samuel Palmer, 1880

Print of a leaning tree with pale trunks and sprawling branches beside a winding dirt lane, shrubs in foreground.

Tree Trunks and Lane

John Crome, 1811-13

Engraved elevation and floor plan of a domed classical garden temple with columns and statues, titled Temple for a Flower Gar

Temple for a Flower Garden

John Soane, 1778

Oval etched portrait of an elderly man in a powdered wig and dark coat, with cross-hatched shading.

Portrait of Bacon Morritt

William Doughty, 1772

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat, holding a printed sheet, against a shaded background.

Portrait of Robert Graves, Printseller

Robert Graves, 1827

Etched self-portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar holding a small panel of a woman, with a city skyline and drawing tools beside him.

Self-Portrait, from "Image de divers hommes: The true effigies of the most eminent Painters"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century

Engraved portrait of Reverend John Diodati in black cap and white collar, hands resting on an open book, 1643.

Portrait of John Diodati, from "Pious Annotations upon the Holy Bible"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1643

Etching of three nude putti pouring water from an urn beside reeds, with fish and seashells on a rocky shore.

Water, from "Four Elements"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Etched river landscape with trees, a sailboat, a hilltop castle labeled Hernenstein, and a distant town labeled Coblentz.

Coblentz and Harmenstein [copy]

Abraham Aubri, after 1664

Etched view of the Rhine with a sailboat, distant castle-topped hills, and walkers on a road near a wall at Bonn.

The Rhine near Bonn [copy]

Abraham Aubri, after 1644

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat, labeled as Pietro Aretino, by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Pietro Aretino

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1640