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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Engraving of the Flood: people and animals in rising water at left, a seated couple on higher ground at right, under heavy ra

The beginning of the Flood: men and women climb to higher ground at right, water overtaking animals and people at lef…

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1612

Engraving of Noah and family approaching the ark as pairs of animals climb a ramp, with birds and rain in the sky.

Entry into the ark: Noah and his family walk toward the ark in the background, pairs of animals walk up a ramp leadin…

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1612

Engraving of Noah kneeling before God in clouds while workers build the ark beside a burning village, with Latin text below.

Noah kneeling before God at left, the construction of the ark underway beyond, from "Liber Genesis"

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1612

Engraving of a lavish banquet with embracing nude couples around a table, with a castle and landscape behind.

Mankind surrendering to lechery before the Flood: embracing couples on benches around a table with food and drink, fr…

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1612

Engraving of Hercules with a club fighting a centaur, with other men battling centaurs on either side.

Hercules with his club in center fighting a centaur, other men fighting centaurs to left and right, from "The Labors…

Sebald Beham, 1542

Red chalk style print of a young woman's head turned sideways, with a braided laurel wreath in her hair.

Tête de femme

Gilles Demarteau, 18th century

Red chalk style print of a peasant boy in a wide hat leaning on a tree and holding a tambourine.

Petit paysan au tambourin

Gilles Demarteau, 18th century

Oval red-toned print of a woman with curled hair holding a small dog, with a cat beside her.

La Femme au petit Chien

Gilles Demarteau, 18th century

Head of a Young Man

Gilles Demarteau, 18th century

Judith

Barthel Beham, ca. 1526

Engraving of mounted figures and rearing horses, with a nude woman and an armored warrior above two fallen men, Latin caption

Hercules Raping Jole, from "The Labors of Hercules"

Sebald Beham, 1544

Black ornamental print with a central diamond panel, grotesque figures, scrollwork and dolphin-like creatures on a pale groun

Concave Lozenge-shaped Panel and Grotesque Figures

Noël Rouillard, ca. 1620-30

Engraving of thatched farm buildings with cattle, a milkmaid and a herdsman in the foreground, and bare trees.

Farms, cattle with herdsmen and milkmaids in the foreground from Multifariarum casularum ruriumque lineamenta curiose…

Johannes van Doetecum I, 1559-61

Etching of a village street with thatched cottages, bare trees, a post mill, travelers and horse riders under clouds.

Country Village with Post Mill from Multifariarum casularum ruriumque lineamenta curiose ad vivum expressa

Johannes van Doetecum I, 1559-61

Etching of a village with thatched cottages, a church spire, trees, and travelers on a dirt road.

Country Village with Church Tower from Multifariarum casularum ruriumque lineamenta curiose ad vivum expressa

Johannes van Doetecum I, 1559-61

Etching of a Dutch-style village with thatched houses, leafless trees, and archers and birds in the foreground under clouds.

Country Village, archers in the foreground from Multifariarum casularum ruriumque lineamenta curiose ad vivum expressa

Johannes van Doetecum I, 1559-61

Etching of a rural village with thatched cottages, trees, and figures on a dirt road in the foreground.

The Swan's Inn, plate 6 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, ca. 1610

Etching of a village road lined with tall trees, thatched cottages, and a horseback rider in the foreground.

Village Road, plate 4 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, ca. 1610

Engraved titleplate with Latin inscription, a man holding pipes, a cart wheel, fence, tree and distant church spire.

Titleplate to "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, ca. 1610

Etching of a farmstead with thatched roofs, a wooden tower, resting cows on a road, and a herdsman under trees.

Farmstead, cows and herdsman in the foreground from Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones elenoantissima…

Johannes van Doetecum I, ca. 1559-61

Etching of a village road with thatched cottages, large trees, a brick chimney, and two women seated in the foreground.

A Village Road, plate 7 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, ca. 1610

Engraving of Judith holding Holofernes' severed head and a sword, with an attendant beside her, in an oval frame.

Judith with the head of Holofernes in her left hand and a sword in her right hand, accompanied by a female attendant,…

Oliviero Gatti, 1606

Etched print of six armored cavalrymen fighting on horseback, with a fallen horse in the foreground.

Six Cavalrymen in Combat, from "Battle Scenes I"

Antonio Tempesta, ca. 1590-1630

Engraved print of a composite capital mixing Corinthian acanthus leaves and Ionic volutes, with measurement notes on the righ

Composite capital with measurements

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop, ca. 1530-40

Engraved print of a Doric capital with fluted shaft, rounded echinus and square abacus, with measurement notes at left.

Doric capital with measurements

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop, ca. 1530-40

Etched print of three figures in 17th-century dress with plumed hats and swords, plus a small sketch of a plumed head.

L'Enrolement des Troupes (The Enlistment of the Troupes), from "La Vie de Ferdinand Ier de Médicis série appelée auss…

Jacques Callot, 1614-20

Engraved frontispiece with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler above an allegorical bas relief of satyrs, a chariot, and Britan

The Frontispiece and Its Explanation (Plate 1: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of two mounted riders on a road beside a brick house, with a dog, a market woman and a man with a barrel.

Sir Hudibras His Passing Worth the Manner How He Sallyed Forth (Plate 2: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a mounted knight with a pistol facing a crowd of musicians, a fiddler, and a chained bear beneath a tree.

The Adventure of the Bear and the Fiddle (Plate 3: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a mounted knight, a squire, and a man climbing a wall to hang a fiddle, with onlookers and verse captions below.

Hudibras Triumphant (Plate 4: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

William Hogarth, 1725-30 (?)