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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,826 works

Engraving of a burning city with soldiers fighting, a fleeing family, and a nude goddess figure with cupids on the right.

The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Engraving of the Visitation with two women embracing before classical columns, a crowd, and a seated mother with infant.

The Visitation

Giorgio Ghisi, 1540-50

Watercolor design of a cushioned bench with a floral garland pattern and two bouquet-printed cushions with tassels.

Design for Cushioned Bench

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pencil design drawing of an ornate canopy bed with swagged drapery, carved posts, and a scrolled cornice.

Design for Bed with a Canopy

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen drawing of two Gothic-style wooden side chairs with pointed arch backs, shown side by side on a cream sheet.

Design for Two Gothic Chairs

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen drawing of four tufted upholstered armchairs and sofas with turned legs and brass casters on a pale sheet.

Designs for Four Upholstered Chairs

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen and ink elevation of a Gothic cabinet with pointed arches, slender columns, carved panels and pinnacles on blue-green pap

Design for a Gothic Cabinet

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Ink and wash design drawing of an ornate desk with scrolled carving, pierced panels and an arched architectural top.

Design for a Desk

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Watercolor design drawing of a desk with arched mirror, fluted columns and ornate scrolled crest on a wood floor.

Design for a Desk with Mirror

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Etching of a decorated ox led through a city street by mounted soldiers and crowds of pedestrians.

Marche du boeuf gras

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1750

Etching of four ornamental vases with putti and seated figures, signed Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1754.

The Four Vases

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1754

Etched trade card showing a shop interior with a draped curtain, merchandise, and figures at a counter, dated 1767.

Trade Card for Périer, Ironmonger

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Pen and watercolor design of a Gothic bay window with fan vaulting, tracery, and draped curtains with tassels.

Design for a Gothic Bay Window

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-1900

Pencil drawing of a bay window design with ornate scalloped valance, fringed curtains, and urn-topped finials.

Partial Design for Bay Window with Monogrammed Curtains

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-1900

Pen and wash design drawing of a four-poster bed with floral canopy valance, fluted posts, and fringed patterned coverlet.

Design for a Bed and Canopy

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-1917

Engraving of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling saint and a young boy, a curtain and column framing a distant mountain land

The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1555-56

Engraving of a nude Venus seated on a bed with a bearded Vulcan behind her and three winged putti attending.

Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed and Three Putti

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1550s

Engraving of Vulcan hammering at an anvil beside reclining Venus, with winged cupids working around a glowing forge.

Venus and Vulcan at the Forge

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1550s

Watercolor of a 19th-century drawing room with a harp, a seated woman in white, and French doors opening onto a mountain view

"Drawing Room of the Plas. Spa"

Julien Muère, 1838

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, sleeping Cupid in the foreground, and a city in the distance.

Venus Pricked by the Thorns of a Rose Bush; Cupid Asleep in the Foreground

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Engraving of nude Venus in water by a rose bush, winged Cupid resting in front, figures running toward a castle behind.

Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid res…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1556

Pen drawing of dancing figures, a winged putto with garland, and ornamental lattice and scroll borders on paper.

Design with Dancing Figures

William Pitts, 1805-40

Pen sketch sheet of Egyptian-style figures, a harp, winged ornaments and architectural fragments arranged across the page.

Sketches of Miscellaneous Egyptian Details and Figures (recto and verso)

William Pitts, 1805-40

Grey wash sketch of a horizontal foliate border with scrolls, rosettes and acanthus leaves on cream paper.

Sketch of Foliate Decoration

William Pitts, 1805-40

Woodcut of executioners killing prisoners on a rocky hillside, with a crowned ruler and onlookers in the foreground and a dis

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of a bearded face composed of farming tools such as a sickle, rake, and baskets, with Italian verse below.

Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Agriculture

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, after 1569

Engraved composite bust made of cooking utensils such as ladles, a colander and chains, with Latin title and Italian verse.

The Instruments of Human Sustenance (Humani Victus Instrumenta): Cooking

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, after 1569

Studies of a Stag

Stefano da Verona, 1430s

Engraving of a crowded vegetable market by a harbor, with women selling produce from baskets and boats on the shore.

Vegetable Market, from the pair Meat Market and Vegetable Market

Pieter van der Borcht, ca. 1575-1608

Engraving of Vulcan at an anvil with Venus reclining beside him, attended by cupids in a forge.

Venus and Vulcan at the Forge

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1555