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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Architectural elevation drawing of a rococo room wall with central door, columns, bust, windows and ornate scrolled decoratio

Design for the Decoration of the Window Door Wall of a Rococo Room with a Coved Ceiling and Coved Central Fanlight (S…

Thomas Lightoler, mid-18th century

Pen and wash elevation of a Rococo room with coffered ceiling, ornate mirror frames and a Corinthian doorway.

Design for Section of a Rococo Room, with a Coved Ceiling and Ornamented Corinthian Doorway

Thomas Lightoler, ca. 1750

Architectural sketch design with ground plan, bedroom plan and elevations for a smithy and two cottages, in watercolor and in

Design for a Smithy and Two Cottages

Charles Edward Mallows, late 19th-early 20th century

Watercolor design drawing of a gold tall church lamp stand with branching arms, scrollwork and glass shades on a tripod base.

Design for Church Lamp Stand

B. Mansfield, 1889

Watercolor elevation of a two-story stone building with five arched bays, iron railings, and pedestrians on the street.

Perspective elevation, from left, of stonefaced building of five bays and two stories

J. B. Marsh, 1866

Study of a Lady in a Riding Habit

Phil May, late 19th-early 20th century

Costume sketch of a figure in black tunic with yellow sash and tricorn hat with red feather, with handwritten notes.

Costume Drawing for Little John

Phil May, late 19th century

Pen and ink sketch of men in top hats and a woman with a dog in a crowded saloon beneath a chandelier.

The Hoffman House Saloon, New York

Phil May, ca. 1895

Pencil design drawing of an ornate door knocker with a flame finial and scrolled base, with a section detail and handwritten

Design for Door Knocker, for "The Builder's Journal"

Eleanor Mercer, 1886-96

Watercolor elevation drawing of a classical theater facade with a central pediment, colonnade, and dome under a cloudy sky.

Design for the Façade of a Theater (Perspective)

Charles Middleton, late 18th-early 19th century

Ink drawing of a symmetrical country house elevation with a columned portico, with a floor plan and scale bar below.

Plan and Elevation of Country House

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Pen and grey wash floor plan of a garden pavilion with central rectangular room, semicircular apses and a feet scale bar.

Plan for Garden Pavilion

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a garden pavilion with a pediment, caryatid figures, arched niches, and urns.

Elevation of Garden Pavilion

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Etching of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome with statues on its roof, a domed chapel, carriages, and figures in the p

S. Giovanni in Laterano, main façade, with Palace and Scala Santa on the right (Veduta della Basilica di S. Giovanni…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1749

Ink and watercolor design for a watchcase and chatelaine with rococo frames, cherubs, and a mythological medallion.

Design for an Enameled Watchcase and Châtelaine with Mythological Figures

George Michael Moser, ca. 1766 (?)

Etching of two domed churches beside Trajan's Column in Rome, with carriages and pedestrians on a busy street.

Two churches near Trajan's column, S. Maria di Loreto and Santissimo Nome di Maria (Veduta delle due chiesa, l'una de…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1762

Etching of the round Temple of Cybele in a busy Roman square with carts, figures, and a cloudy sky.

View of the Temple of Cybele in the Piazza of the Bocca della Verità (Veduta del Tempio di Cibele a Piazza della Bocc…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1758

Etching of ruined vaulted interior of the Canopus at Hadrian's Villa, with fallen masonry and small figures among the debris.

Hadrian's Villa: The Canopus (Avanzi del Tempio Dio Canopo nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1769

Etching of a vaulted Roman bath chamber with a round basin, hanging lamp, arched niches and a skeleton on the floor.

View of Pompeii (Altra veduta della Stanza dove si preparava il Bogno Caldo . . . )

Francesco Piranesi, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of muscular nude figures with grinning demons, one horned and one with bat-like ears, on a pale sheet.

Study of Figures from Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo, 1540-50

Pen drawing of a classical entablature and column section with egg-and-dart moldings, dentils, and a rosette on tan paper.

Design for Entablature

Robert Mylne the younger, mid-18th-early 19th century

Etching of ruined Corinthian columns and a carved frieze beside a Roman street with houses, trees and figures.

The Temple of Vespian (Veduta del Tempio di giove Tonante)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1756

Etching of a busy Roman riverside harbor with boats, barrels, stone steps, and church and palace buildings under clouds.

The smaller harbor, called the Porto di Ripetta (Veduta del Porto di Ripetta)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1753

Watercolor interior with a seated mother and child, children, two men in period dress, a canopy bed and tapestried walls.

Scene with Family and Guest in Seventeenth-Century Interior

Joseph Nash, 1825-78

Etching of Roman ruins with a large coffered vault, overgrown walls, cypress trees and small figures among rubble.

The Temple of Venus and Roma (erroneously called Temple of Sol and Luna) (Veduta degli avanzi di due triclini che app…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1759

Etching of a columned interior with domed vault, central altar, and small figures in period dress on the floor.

S. Constanza (erroneously callled Temple of Bacchus) (Veduta interna del Sepolcro di S. Constanza, fabbricato da Cost…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1756

Etching of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome with arched arcades, carts and people in the piazza, and a dome at right.

The Theatre of Marcellus (Teatro di Marcello), from "Vedute di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1757

Etching of a bearded man in a turban and draped robe, standing barefoot and leaning on a long halberd.

Saint Jude (or Saint Matthias)

Jacques Bellange, 1595-1616

Etching of Saint Andrew standing barefoot on a diagonal cross, wearing a fringed cloak, with a halo above his head.

Saint Andrew

Jacques Bellange, 1595-1616

Lithograph of two giraffes, an attendant, and antelopes on a plain, advertising live giraffes exhibited on Broadway, 1838.

The Majestic and Graceful Giraffes, or Cameleopards, with some Rare Animals of the Gazelle Species

Edward Williams Clay, 1838