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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Engraved frontispiece with two seated hunters, dogs, horses and hanging game, with dedicatory text in italic script.

Frontispiece with Hunters, Dogs and Horses, from "Hunting Scenes VI"

Antonio Tempesta, 1609

Engraving of horsemen with lances and dogs chasing ostriches across a landscape with palm trees.

Ostrich Hunt, from "Hunting Scenes VI"

Antonio Tempesta, 1609

Engraving of hunters on horseback and dogs attacking a bear in a forest, with more hunters in the distant landscape.

Bear Hunt, from "Hunting Scenes VI"

Antonio Tempesta, 1609

Brown wash drawing of clergy in vestments carrying a reliquary bust through a vaulted church interior with kneeling figures.

Scene 36: Reception of the heart and head of the Blessed Father Dom Jean de la Barrière, brought from Rome to his Abb…

Matthieu Elias, 1706-07

Engraving of a haloed youth gesturing among seated and standing scholars in a columned temple interior, with an inscription b

Christ Disputing in the Temple

Orazio de Santis, 1568-77

Etching of a Roman hall where attendants attack the elderly king Tarquin as soldiers with an axe and fasces look on.

Plate 14: The Tragic Death of Tarquin the Elder; from volume I of Rollin's 'Istoria Romana'

Bartolomeo Pinelli, 1818

Grey wash drawing of a risen Christ with a banner standing over a skeleton, beside chained women in an arcaded hall.

Christ Saving Eve

Hans Jakob Nüscheler the Elder, 1595-1654

Pen and brown wash landscape with a skeleton hanging from a bare tree, a stone bridge, and a figure on distant hills.

Skeleton Hanging from a Tree in a Landscape

Paul Bril, late 16th-early 17th century

Drawing of a man resting beside a dog under a huge gnarled oak tree, with small figures working in the misty distance.

A Man Resting Under a Tree

Egbert van Drielst, n.d.

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in fur-trimmed cloak with his hand on a skull, hourglass beside him.

Portrait of Joannes Neyen, General of the Order of Franciscan Friars, Ambassador in Trier

Jan Müller, 1608

Watercolor design of an ornate interior with gilded arches, painted ceiling figures, and a green damask wall panel.

Design for an Interior, possibly a Theater

V. S. Léon, ca. 1860-80

Engraved plate comparing Roman and Greek Ionic capitals with architectural drawings of temple columns and caryatids.

Various Roman Ionic capitals compared with Greek examples from Le Roy [S. Maria in Trastevere, S. Paoplo fuori le Mur…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, mid-18th century

Pencil and wash drawing of a Gothic building elevation above a site plan with botanic garden and professors houses.

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook V

Alexander Jackson Davis, n.d.

Pencil architectural sections of a library showing stacked floors, staircases, columns, and a cupola, labeled Chapel Hill, N.

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook VII

Alexander Jackson Davis, 19th century

Watercolor architectural drawing of a neoclassical university design with columned facade, central tower, and floor plan belo

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook IV

Alexander Jackson Davis, n.d.

Engraving of a lavish outdoor banquet with seated diners, servants, a musician, and a nude figure in a tub.

The Rich Man at His Table, from "The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1554

Brown ink and wash elevation of a classical greenhouse with columns, glazed panels, pediment and niche statues.

Design of a Greenhouse for the Right Honorable Earl of Coventry, Croome Court, Worcestershire (Elevation)

Robert Adam, 1760

Pen drawing of an oval mirror design with laurel wreath border, acanthus crest, and ornate rectangular base on paper.

Design for a Girandole Mirror, an Oval Resting on an Oblong Base, Terminated by Two Superimposed Circular Frond-motif…

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1775

Colored design drawing of a console table with fluted legs, urn finial, and a fan-shaped ornamental panel above.

Design for a Console Table

Robert Adam, second half 18th century

Neoclassical arched panel design with rosettes, Greek key borders, and a central medallion of a draped classical figure.

Design for a Panel

Robert Adam, 1748-92

Ink and wash drawing of a classical chimneypiece elevation with fluted frieze, dentil cornice and pilasters.

Design for a Chimneypiece

Robert Adam, second half 18th century

Sepia drawing of a Gothic Revival town hall with a central dome, clock tower and many spires, viewed straight on.

Competition Drawing for the Manchester Town Hall

Thomas Allom, 1866

Pen and wash architectural drawing of a gallery interior with arched windows, wall panels, and a floor plan with dimensions.

Mansion of Thomas Hope, Flemish Picture Gallery

H. Ansted, ca. 1824

Watercolor design of a gothic tower with spire flanked by domed pavilions and an arcaded gallery, with figures on a lawn.

Design for a Gothic "Belle Vue"

William Hurst Ashpitel, ca. 1800

Engraving of three pilgrims beside a large tree overlooking a river valley with boats, cattle and a distant town.

Euntes in Emaus (Landscape with Pilgrims at Emmaus)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1555-56

Engraved landscape of pilgrims walking beneath a large tree beside a winding river, with a castle and sunset in the distance.

Euntes in Emaus (Landscape with Pilgrims at Emmaus), from "The Large Landscapes"

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1555-56

Engraving of a wooded landscape with a large tree, a covered wagon on a road, and a village church tower in the distance.

Wooded Region (Pagus Nemorosus), from "The Large Landscapes"

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1555-56

Pencil sketch on aged paper with standing figures above and seated figures with a palm tree below.

Figure studies

Sr George Bickham, first half 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a monk embracing a robed clergyman at a dais, with monks standing along the wall and a scroll.

Scene 32: Supporters of the league pursue the Blessed Abbot to Rome; despite their calumnies his innocence is recogni…

Matthieu Elias, 1707

Watercolor drawing of a classical country house with a columned portico, statues on the roof, and obelisks along a gravel dri

East Front of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire

R. Blasson, 1790