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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Watercolor design of a repeating ornamental grid with yellow oval medallions, dancing figures, garlands and urns on pale pape

Design for ceiling decoration

Joseph Bonomi, mid-18th-early 19th century

Watercolor frontispiece design with farmers, sheep, a cow, and a circular view of ploughing oxen in hilly countryside.

Design for a Frontispiece

Josiah Boydell, ca. 1793

Sepia drawing of soldiers scattering as a beam falls, a robed monk raises his hand, and a man lies wounded on a platform.

Scene 28: The Blessed Abbot having retired to the Château de Montaigu, soldiers of the league arrive to capture him a…

Matthieu Elias, 1706

Architectural elevation drawing of a gallery with Corinthian columns, arched bays, statues in niches, and ornate relief panel

Section of a "Galerie dans le palais d'un souverain"

Charles Pierre Joseph Normand, ca. 1791

Colored ground plan of a Paris hotel and its symmetrical formal garden with parterres, walks and tree rows.

Ground Plan for the Hotel de la Rochefoucauld Doudeauville and its Garden, Paris

Jean Jacques Huvé, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a man in a wide hat riding a tall giraffe with a saddle, with small figures and a fence below.

The Cameleopard, or a new hobby

William Heath, 1827

Graphite drawing of a seated woman in a draped gown and head covering, gazing downward, on cream paper.

Seated Woman

Edward Burne-Jones, 1864

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental heraldic design with angels, putti, garlands, crowns and several coats of arms among cl

Design of the Arms of the Princes of Europe

Edward Francis Burney, late 18th-mid-19th century

Pencil and watercolor west elevation of a Gothic Revival church with red brick, rose window, and tall bell tower with spire.

West Elevation of an Unidentified Church

William Butterfield, 19th century

Watercolor of a man reclining in a study beside a laid breakfast table, with a black dog, crossed swords on the wall.

A Bachelor in His Study (The Sportsman's Breakfast)

J. Buttfield, late 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of a tall ornate candelabrum with lion-supported pedestal, putti, and garlands, with a scale bar below.

Design for a Monumental Candelabrum

James Byres, 1765

Drawing of robed monks carrying a bier with a draped body through a Gothic church interior toward a candlelit altar.

Feuillant monks carry the bier with the body of Jean de la Barrière

Matthieu Elias, 1706-07

Brown wash drawing of a deathbed scene with a standing cleric, a dying man in bed, kneeling monks and a crucifix on a wall.

Scene 33: The Blessed Abbot, near death, receives the blessing of the pope, who sends for this purpose Cardinal d'Oss…

Matthieu Elias, 1706

Brown wash drawing of armored guards with halberds escorting a robed bald man through an arched doorway onto a cobbled street

The arrest of Jean de La Barrière by the League at Lombez

Matthieu Elias, 1706-07

Brown wash drawing of a body on display in a church interior, with clergy, guards with halberds and a crowd.

Scene 34: To satisfy the devotion of the people, they are forced to leave the Blessed Abbot's body on display for thr…

Matthieu Elias, 1706-07

Pen and ink design of two swans in a lake within a rococo scroll cartouche, with ruins and a winged creature.

Design for a Tablet for a Chimney-Piece with Two Swans enclosed within a Cartouche

Thomas Johnson, 1762

Pen drawing of a curly-haired child carrying a puppy on his shoulder, with a large dog and children near a tower.

Child Carrying a Puppy on his Shoulder

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Poster of a man with a boater hat and racket beside a seated woman in a plumed hat, with issue contents listed at right.

Philadelphia Sunday Press, May 26, 1895

George Reiter Brill, 1895

Philadelphia Sunday Press, June 9, 1895

George Reiter Brill, 1895

Pen and watercolor design of two draped women holding a child's hands in a garden, inside an octagonal blue-bordered frame.

Design for a Porcelain Platter

Leroux, 1777

Poster for the Philadelphia Sunday Press showing a woman in a blue hat with autumn leaves and green striped background.

Sunday Press, October, 1896

George Reiter Brill, 1896

Etching of a boar and a mastiff with thistle, white lily and raspberry plants, with insects and moths scattered among them.

Boar and Mastiff

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1662-63

Ink and grey wash drawing of a neoclassical domed mausoleum with columns, statues, and flanking urns among trees.

Design for a Mausoleum

Sir William Chambers, 1740-1800

Engraving of a satyr carrying a nude woman over his shoulder, with a dog below and a flowing cloth behind them.

Woman Being Carried to a Libidinous Satyr

Léon Davent, 1540-56

Poster of a red-haired woman writing with a quill beside text advertising the Philadelphia Sunday Press and a battleship Olym

Philadelphia Sunday Press, May 24th

George Reiter Brill, 1896

Etching of a shadowy vaulted interior with a stone pier, lamp, and hanging iron chains by Piranesi.

The Pier with a Lamp, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1749-50

Etching of a thatched cottage under a full moon, with a shepherd, dog and sheep in a fenced lane at night.

Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep

Samuel Palmer, 1850

Etching of a sleeping shepherd under a wooden shelter with sheep, and a figure driving cattle over a distant hill.

The Sleeping Shepherd; Early Morning

Samuel Palmer, 1857

Etching of a herdsman leading oxen and a dog past a cottage under a moonlit, cloudy sky with dark trees.

The Weary Ploughman, or The Herdsman, or Tardus Bubulcus

Samuel Palmer, begun 1858

Etching of a ploughman with oxen in a field beside tall cypress trees, under a dramatic cloudy sky over hills.

The Early Ploughman, or The Morning Spread Upon the Mountains

Samuel Palmer, begun before 1861