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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,003 works

Architectural section drawing of a long hall with two tiers of pink columns, arched windows, niche statues and oval medallion

Longitudinal Section of Great Throne Room (Saint George's Hall), Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg

Giacomo Quarenghi, ca. 1776

Vertical pilaster drawing with winged putti, a torch, a small temple model and reeds on a tan ground.

Two Pilaster with White Putti on Tan Ground

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, 1595-1640

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate footed chalice with acanthus scrollwork on the cup and a lobed stem.

Design for a Chalice (recto); Design for the Base of a Vase (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and brown ink drawing of an ornate chalice with acanthus leaves, shell motifs and a scrolled stem.

Design for a Chalice with Acanthus and Shell Decoration

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink design sketch of an ornate rococo scrolled frame with foliage and a carved mask, on pale paper.

Design for the Frame of a Mirror or Fire Screen (recto); Various Sketches (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and brown wash drawing of a satyr and satyress lifting a tall vase on a scrolled pedestal.

Design for a Statue consisting of a Satyr and Satyress Lifting a Vase

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink sketch of an ornamental frieze with scrolling acanthus leaves and a fan-shaped palmette on paper.

Design for a Frieze Decorated With a Palmette and Tendrils (recto); Two Designs for a Rosette (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink design of a lion's head flanked by two putti on scrolled ornament, with grey wash shading.

Design for a Lion's Head flanked by Satyrs

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash panorama of ruined Delft after the 1654 gunpowder explosion, with collapsed houses, debris, and church towers.

View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654

Herman Saftleven, 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

Grey wash drawing of a sailing ship near a rocky coastline with cliffs and hills under a pale sky.

Coast Scene

Willem van de Velde the Younger, mid-17th-early 18th 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

Grey wash drawing of robed figures and an ox before classical columns and arches in a crowded ancient interior.

Samuel Anointing the Young David (?)

Jan Erasmus Quellinus, n.d.

Pencil design sketch of a long decorative frieze with scrollwork, rosettes and cartouches on tan paper.

Design for Ceiling Decorations, Fontainebleau

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design for an ornamental arched vault with floral garlands, gilded scrolls and a doorway below.

Design for Hôtel de Trevise, Paris

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pen and ink design drawing of a lidded vase with gadrooned base, garland swags and satyr masks, on pale paper.

Design for a Lidded Gadrooned Vase with Satyr Heads Holding Garlands

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and brown wash drawing of a female term figure with a flame-like headdress on a tapering pedestal under an arch.

Design for a Term shaped like a Winged Female Figure

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of African figures among palm trees, with elephants, tusks, a parasol and clay vessels.

Scene of Africa (Allegory?)

Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer, early 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of European men and turbaned figures trading near a stone pedestal, palm trees and boats.

Europeans Engaging in Commerce and Trade in Asia

Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer, early 17th century

Engraved frieze of tritons, nymphs, sea horses and putti riding across waves.

Frieze with Tritons and Nymphs

Girolamo Mocetto, 1490-1530

Watercolor of misty mountains above a pale reflective lake, with handwritten place names along the bottom edge.

Craig Goch, Moel Hebog, North Wales

Cornelius Varley, ca. 1802

Pen and ink frieze design with two putti holding garlands around an empty oval cartouche, flanked by scrolls.

Design for a Frieze

Henri Sallembier, n.d.

Etched panoramic landscape of flat fields, tree lines, farm buildings and a church tower under a wide sky.

Panorama near Bloemendael Showing the Saxenburg Estate

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Watercolor landscape of a snowy mountain range over a winding river plain, with three robed figures on a hill in the foregrou

Mount Olympus from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece

Edward Lear, 1850-85

Engraving of a Gothic choir screen with pointed arches, quatrefoil tracery, and sculpted saints above a row of columns.

Interior of Strasbourg Cathedral Showing the Choir Screen

Johann Jakob Arhardt, 1617

Etching of Richmond Palace across a river, with a tree and walking figures in the foreground and a ship on the water.

Richmond Palace

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1638

Engraved horizontal frieze with a central female bust, winged figures, anthemia and hanging garlands on a pale ground.

Fragment of a horizontal frieze with female bust in the center, garlands, anthemia, cut from a plate of border segments

Francesco Rosselli, 1490-1500

Black and white panoramic print of New York harbor with steamboats, sailing ships, rowboats and a city skyline.

Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River

Robert Havell Jr., 1840

Pencil drawing of a tall building facade with narrow windows, a balcony, and a doorway, cut to an elongated shape on grey pap

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

Eugène Cicéri, 1840-90

Pencil sketch of a building facade with a Trattoria di Parigi shopfront, striped awning, balconies and red measuring grid lin

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: "Trattoria di Parigi"

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90