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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Textile design drawing with large paisley motifs, berry sprays and stylized flowers in red, pink, yellow and blue.

Textile Design with Paisley Motifs and Garlands of Berry Sprays and Stylized Flowers

fils H. Minder, mid-19th century

Engraving of Paris choosing among three goddesses with Mercury between them, cherubs and chariots in the sky above.

The Judgment of Paris; Paris seated on a rock choosing between the goddesses Venus, Juno, and Minerva, the god Mercur…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1555

Engraving of the seated prophet Ezekiel with nude putti and sibyl figures in an architectural frame, after the Sistine Chapel

The Prophet Ezekiel, from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraving of the seated prophet Jeremiah with head in hand, framed by architectural arches and nude figures, labeled HIEREMIA

The Prophet Jeremiah, from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

Giorgio Ghisi, 1570-75

Engraved lunette title page with Latin inscription, papal coat of arms, winged figure, and scenes of men, soldiers and a boat

Title page to "Galleria Dipinta nel Palazzo del Prencipe Panfilio" after the ceiling frescoes by Pietro da Cortona de…

Carlo Cesi, ca. 1661

Engraving of a kneeling veiled woman beneath a winged angel holding a cross in a window, mounted on an album page.

The Vision of St. Helena

Marcantonio Raimondi

Engraving of the Madonna with a halo holding a rose, the infant child leaning on a globe beside her, against draped curtains.

Madonna of the Rose

Johann Christian Teucher

Engraved print of two nude figures on a bench in a draped interior, with a pastoral night landscape of sheep and cattle beyon

The Chamber Idyll

Edward Calvert, 1831

Etching of a man in a cap and fur-trimmed coat leaning on a stone sill, looking toward the viewer.

Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1639

Black and white print of a woman floating face up in a river among reeds, flowers and overhanging shrubs.

Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7)

John Everett Millais, March 1, 1866

Etching of five nude putti with grapes and drapery arranged in a shallow frieze, signed Peter van Avont.

Five boys and a satyr

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1625-77

Engraving of woodcutters sawing a log in a forest, with a standing overseer, a small dog and tall pine trunks.

The Wood-cutters

Hubert von Herkomer, 1880

Engraving of a seated preacher in a forest addressing a crowd on a path, with mountains and a river in the distance.

John the Baptist Preaching in the Desert

Nicolaes de Bruyn

Lithograph of a crouching gargoyle on a Gothic parapet beside a tower, with French verse and the date November 1853 above.

Regarding One of the Gargoyles of Nôtre-Dame, Paris

Charles Meryon, 1853

Etched frontispiece of an open book with ribbon bookmarks showing the text of the Parable of the Prodigal Son by James Tissot

The Parable of the Prodigal Son: Frontispiece

James Tissot, 1882

Etching of a family interior: a standing young man and a bearded older man at a table, two women by a window with ships outsi

The Parable of the Prodigal Son: The Departure No. 1

James Tissot, 1882

Etching of women dancing with fans in a Japanese interior while men sit nearby, with paper lanterns and a night waterfront vi

The Parable of the Prodigal Son, No. II: In Foreign Climes

James Tissot, 1882

Etching of an older man embracing a kneeling, ragged figure on a ship deck, with pigs and sailing rigging behind them.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son, No. III: The Return

James Tissot, 1882

Etching of a feast on a riverside terrace with seated guests and a dog, while a kneeling man looks up from the right.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son, No. IV: The Fatted Calf

James Tissot, 1882

Etching of rickety wooden shanties on a rocky cliff, with tall city buildings and rooftops behind them.

The Cliff Dwellers of New York

Mary Nimmo Moran, 1881

Red chalk drawing of a muscular bearded male nude standing in a twisting pose, shaded with hatched strokes on pale paper.

Standing Male Nude

Denys Calvaert, mid-16th-early 17th century

Colored drawing of two market women, one in a straw hat carrying a blue bucket, the other holding a basket of fish.

Two Market Women

Jacobus Perkois, 1789

Engraving of nude Venus in an arched niche on a conch shell, with Cupid holding a bow beside her, 1526.

Plate 10: Venus in a niche, standing on a conch shell, with Cupid to her right, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1526

Engraving of nude Apollo with laurel wreath striding in a dark niche amid radiating sun rays and a chariot wheel.

Plate 11: Apollo riding his chariot in a niche, facing right, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1526

Engraving of nude Diana in an arched niche drawing an arrow from her quiver, with a deer beside her and a Latin inscription b

Plate 12: Diana standing in a niche, twisting to her left and pulling an arrow out of a quiver, with a deer to her ri…

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1526

Etching of women and children doing laundry on a grassy field, with hanging cloth and town towers behind trees.

Outdoor Scene of Women in Domestic Activities in Nurnberg,

Johann Christoph Erhard, 19th century

Etching of a horseback rider on a path beside a canal, with a moored boat and cabin under large trees.

On the Canal in Vienna

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1819

Etching of a rural road with farmhouses, grazing cows and sheep, two figures, and a tall tree on a rocky bank.

In Regenberg

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1815

Etching of a village road with a large tree, an ox cart pulled by oxen, a stone statue pillar, and wooden barns.

In Buchberg

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1817

Etching of a lone figure on rocks overlooking a curving alpine lake with a steep, pointed mountain behind it.

Bockhart Lake (Der Bockhardsee)

Johann Christoph Erhard, early 19th century