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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pen and wash drawing of a fortified town gate with round towers, arched stone bridge, ruins and small figures under a cloudy

The Gate of Bruges at Sluis

Hendrick van Minderhout, 1661

Etched title page with a symmetrical acanthus frieze, two bears at the corners, and a central dedicatory inscription.

Disegni Varij di Polifilo Zancarli (Friezes)

Polifilo Giancarli, ca. 1625

Etching of a seated nude woman with long hair in a woodland clearing by a pond, with a reclining figure beside trees.

Eva from Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III)

Max Klinger, 1898

Etching of a child's bust turned left, left hand raised near chin, with tousled hair and loose hatched lines.

Plate 13: Bust of a child with his left hand near to his chin, turned towards the left, from "Various heads and figur…

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Plate 14: A child writing with a quill, facing left in profile, from "Various heads and figures" (Diverses têtes et f…

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Etched title cartouche with French inscription, curling scrollwork and two face masks at the base, from a decorative series.

Plate 1: A cartouche with series title, from "Caprice faict par de la Bella"

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1642

Etching of a beached ship and rowboat on a shore, with a ruined tower and crumbling walls behind them on the left.

Plate 2: A ship at right and a rowboat at left, washed up on shore, a tower in ruins behind to left, from "Caprice fa…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1642

Etching of two seated pilgrims by a tree, a figure lying down, and a ruined tower with a distant skyline at right.

Plate 6: Two seated pilgrims and one laying down to left, a tower in ruins to right in the background, from "Caprice…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1642

Etching of a peasant woman carrying a child beside a boy with a cane, with a castle in the background.

Plate 7: A peasant woman carrying a child to right, speaking to another child standing facing right in center, a cast…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1642

Etching of two horsemen with women riding behind them, crossing a river past a large tree at right.

Plate 8: Two horsemen in hats at right, each with a woman seated behind them, riding towards the left in profile acro…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1642

Etching of a peasant woman with a child on her back and a staff, a reclining boy behind her, and a church in the distance.

Plate 10: A peasant woman turned towards the right with a child on her back, a boy lying on the ground behind her in…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1642

Etching of an old man seated on the ground seen from behind, with a peasant woman standing in a distant landscape at right.

Plate 11: An old man sitting on the ground to left, seen from behind, a peasant woman seen from behind to right in ba…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1642

Etching of two standing peasants, a seated beggar, and a woman with a child before a distant village with a church spire.

Plate 13: Two peasants standing to left, a cripple kneeling on the ground in center, a woman carrying a child seen fr…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1642

A man at left in profile giving a handful of hay to a horse at center, a horseman to the right in background

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

A Polish valet, seen from behind, holding the bridle of a horse to right, a Polish horseman in profile to left in the…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Etching of a turbaned valet riding one horse and leading another through shallow water beside a distant hill.

A valet taking two horses to bathe, sitting atop one horse in a river, the other beside him to right

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Etching of a peasant in a hat walking right with a bundle and basket, a horse descending a hill behind him among trees.

Plate 11: A peasant wearing a hat at center, walking towards the right, a horse descending a mountain to right in the…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of ruined Roman monuments and an overgrown road along the Appian Way, with cypress trees and small figures.

Plate 19: Part of the ancient Appian Way about three miles outside Porta S. Sebastiano, from "Alcune Vedute di Archi…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1748

Etching of the Holy Family with a winged angel offering fruit in a bowl to the Christ Child, an older man watching.

Holy Family with an Angel Who Offers Fruit to the Christ Child: Raccolta di alcuni disegni del Barbieri da Cento dett…

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1764

Etching of a ruined townscape with a fountain, fallen column, statue, pine trees and an aqueduct in the distance.

Plate 13: a townscape with a fountain, fallen column and statue at right and a Gothic church beside an aqueduct in th…

Davide Antonio Fossati, 1743

Etching of animals including cattle, sheep and a dog gathering near trees, with a distant village and boat at left.

Entry of the animals into Noah's ark

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, ca. 1650-55

Engraving of Moses at a rock spring with Israelites gathering water and manna, with wooden houses in the background.

Moses Telling the Israelites to Gather the Manna and Moses Striking the Rock

Giulio Bonasone

Engraved battle scene of Roman soldiers and horses fighting, with horn-players and fallen warriors in the foreground.

Roman soldiers fighting against Dacians, battle scene in shallow depth with horses and horn-players (after a bas-reli…

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1553

Etching of a cannon on a carriage with soldiers, barrels, a ruined tower, and a distant town with smoke.

Plate 2: A cannon to the left, a town in the background, from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Etching of a woman holding a child seated on a donkey, with a satyr at left, signed SB fec.

A woman at right holding her child who is sitting atop a donkey, a satyr at left looking towards the right, plate 6 f…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646

Red chalk drawing of ancient stone ruins with an arched doorway, large boulders, and overgrown bushes on a hillside.

Ruins of the Palatine Hill

Joseph-Benoît Suvée, ca. 1772-76

Etching of costumed figures on a wooded path with Florence in the distance and gods seated on clouds above.

First Scene, in Florence, from "The marriage of the gods" (Le nozze degli Dei)

Stefano Della Bella, 1637

Etching of a forest clearing with a procession of robed figures below and a group of gods gathered on clouds above.

Second Scene, in Diana's forest, from "The marriage of the gods" (Le nozze degli Dei)

Stefano Della Bella, 1637

Etching of a stage set with colonnades, a central fountain, dancing figures and gods in clouds above.

Third scene, the garden of Venus, from "The marriage of the gods" (Le nozze degli Dei)

Stefano Della Bella, 1637

Etching of a mythological sea scene with dancing nymphs, sea creatures and tritons between rocky cliffs, with figures on a cl

Fourth scene, the sea, from "The marriage of the gods" (Le nozze degli Dei)

Stefano Della Bella, 1637