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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,814 works

Ink and wash drawing of a cobbler working at a stall beside a sleeping dog, with a kneeling man and climbing vines.

The Cobbler

Adriaen van Ostade, 17th century

Hand-colored page showing a shepherd with a staff beside a tree, sheep grazing below, and the poem The Shepherd above.

Songs of Innocence: The Shepherd

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Pen and watercolor drawing of an overturned carriage, fleeing pigs, and sprawled figures on a country road.

Going to Ivy Bridge

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of a sailor embracing a woman in a kitchen while an elderly woman watches from the hearth.

The Sailor's Return from Active Service

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor drawing of travelers with horses, a loaded cart, and a dog on a road beside sheds and trees.

Migrants

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Hand-colored page with a child embracing a lamb beside sheep, with two verses of text and a swirling sun above.

Songs of Innocence: Spring (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page with the poem The Little Girl Lost, two embracing figures, a lion, and a vine border in watercolor.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Blake illuminated page: a reclining woman in pink beside tents, and a lioness below beneath a branch, with poem text.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost (second plate); The Little Girl Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a poem in red text, showing a reclining nude, two children, lions, and a twisted tree.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Found (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted warrior from behind, surrounded by rearing horses, soldiers, and raised spears in a battle.

Battle Scene

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Oval drawing of a mythological feast with a donkey-riding figure, revelers at a table, and cherubs, in white ink on blue pape

King Midas Feasting At The Arrival of Silenus

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Brown and white wash drawing on blue paper of hunters on horseback and a nude man spearing a charging boar, with hounds.

Hunt of the Calydonian Boar

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and white-heightened drawing on blue paper of Niobe's children being struck by arrows, with horses and a temple in the ba

Death of Niobe and Her Children

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Engraving of a fortune teller reading the palm of a seated woman beneath a large tree, with onlookers and a small dog nearby.

The Fortune Teller and the Lady

Jacob de Gheyn II, ca. 1608

Pencil drawing of a cottage among trees, with a man and dog crossing a wooden footbridge at right.

House among Trees, at Right Man and Dog on a Footbridge

Jacob van Ruisdael, 17th century

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of a rocky cliff, ruins, a hilltop castle and a town with church spires.

View of Saumur

Willem Schellinks, mid-17th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a horse-drawn covered carriage on a road beside a leaning tree and a horseman.

Carriage In A Landscape

Gérard ter Borch, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a coastal dune landscape with figures, horses, a sailing boat, and a ruined building.

Landscape with Figures

Hendrik Verschuring, 1642-90

Brown wash drawing of a vaulted stone interior with stacked arches and small figures and a dog in the foreground.

The Interior of the So-called Stables of Maecenas at Tivoli

Hendrik Voogd, 1793

Woodcut of nude trumpeters leading a horse with a horn and a rider holding a laurel branch, with a dog and a cat in the proce

Trumpeters leading Ceasar on horseback, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Jacob of Strasbourg, 1504

Woodcut print of oxen and elephants pulling a turreted triumphal chariot, with laurel-crowned armored men in procession.

Oxen and elephants, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Jacob of Strasbourg, 1504

Woodcut of armored horsemen carrying laurel branches in a triumphal procession, with a dog below and Latin text at the bottom

Figures on horseback, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Jacob of Strasbourg, 1504

Engraving of a white horse rearing in fright beside a calm lion on rocky ground, by George Stubbs, 1788.

A Horse Affrighted at a Lion

George Stubbs, May 1, 1788

Grey wash drawing of a ruined cylindrical tower, stone houses, and travelers with a donkey on a dirt road.

Landscape with a Tower

Thomas Wijck, 1629-77

Hand-colored print of a galloping horseman with a whip chasing a carriage past a signpost reading To Gretna Green.

Filial Affection, or a Trip to Gretna Green

Thomas Rowlandson, December 15, 1785

Engraving of a helmeted tooth-puller on horseback pulling a tooth from a woman while a crowd watches in a town street.

The Tooth-Puller

Pieter van der Borcht

Engraved Flemish village street with houses, figures at windows, a barrel roller, a bread carrier and a fishing boat on a riv

A Flemish Village with Ten Proverbs on Laziness

Frans Huys, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of robed figures and an ox before classical columns and arches in a crowded ancient interior.

Samuel Anointing the Young David (?)

Jan Erasmus Quellinus, n.d.

Engraving of three boys raiding a sand-swallow colony on a sandy bank while birds fly overhead, by Winslow Homer, 1874.

Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs?" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, June 13, 1874

Wood engraving of two men camping by a lake with canoes, a lean-to, a campfire, fish, and mountains behind.

Camping Out in Adirondacks (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, November 7, 1874