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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,827 works

Engraved print of a draped female figure, the Phrygian Sibyl, beside a column and broken masonry with Latin caption.

The Phrygian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Page of six engraved prints of Sibyl figures with Latin captions; lower left shows the Tiburtine Sibyl with a crown of thorns

The Tiburtine Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraved page of six sibyl prints; the lower center figure carries a cross wrapped in a crown of thorns.

The Epirian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Engraving of a partly draped woman holding a staff and a crown of thorns, from a page of six sibyl prints.

The Colophonian Sibyl

Master with the Name of Jesus, 16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a town square with a tiered fountain, a clock tower, a crowd, oxen and carts.

A View of the Piazza del Duomo, Messina, with the Fountain of Orion, the Cathedral to the right

Willem Schellinks, late 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a crowded street before a colonnaded building, with figures, a horse, a dog and a tent.

An Italian City with a Crowd Watching Actors in an Outdoor Theater

Hendrik Verschuring, 1642-90

Graphite drawing of a woman's head turned upward with a wistful gaze, short wavy hair, on tan paper.

Head of a Woman Looking Up

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, 1800-1862

Grey ink and wash drawing of ruined stone buildings and boulders on a rocky hillside under a pale sky.

View of Bomarzo

Horatius de Hooch, 17th century

Museum page of three engravings: a seated woman with a standing child, a winged angel, and a reclining woman nursing beside a

The Virgin and the Young Christ

Marcantonio Raimondi, n.d.

Young Man and Old Woman

Jacob Matham, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a winged angel above a prone figure, with saints and a seated Christ figure in clouds above.

Saint Michael

Josef Christ, 1732-88

Grey wash drawing of a robed churchman among a crowd, with two flying cherubs above in an arched composition.

Saint Carl Borromäus

Melchior Steidl, late 17th-18th century

Gray wash drawing of the Good Shepherd standing on a globe with a lamb, cherubs, a dragon and a radiant IHS monogram.

The Good Shepherd

Gottfried Eichler the Younger, 1715-70

Grey wash drawing of Christ holding a cross above clouds, with angels, skeletons and falling figures in the lower corners.

Christ as Judge

Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1708-74

Drawing of a robed priest giving last rites to plague victims beneath hovering angels and cherubs, with columns behind.

Saint Carl Borromäus Giving Extreme Unction to the Plague-Stricken

Johann Daniel Herz the Elder, 1700-1754

Brown ink drawing of a helmeted Roman warrior raising a spear beside a sword and shield on a rocky ledge.

Roman Warriors

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1700-1767

Pen and blue wash drawing of a battle on a bridge, with an angel above holding a cross in a radiant sunburst.

Constantine's Battle at the Milvian Bridge

Georg Philipp Rugendas, 1722

Pen drawing of ruined Roman buildings and arcades behind trees, with small figures in the foreground landscape.

Ruins of the Imperial Palaces in Rome

Joseph Anton Koch, 1810

Brown wash drawing of a Swiss farmyard with a timber farmhouse, woodpile, dog, chickens, and large shade trees.

Swiss Farm ('Hirtenhof')

Robert Zünd, 19th-20th century

Pen and ink sheet of studies showing a Madonna and child, a bearded old man, and draped standing and seated figures.

Sheet of Studies

Anthony van Dyck, 1621-27

Engraved portrait of a young woman with curled hair leaning on a balustrade holding flowers, with a formal garden behind.

Portrait of Mary Stuart

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Engraving of the prophet Daniel seated on an ornate throne, holding an open book, with Italian verse below.

The Prophet Daniel, from "Prophets and Sibyls"

Francesco Rosselli, 1480-90

Engraving of the Madonna nursing the Christ Child seated against a large tree, with a landscape behind them.

The Madonna nursing the Christ Child at the foot of a tree

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1502-3

Engraving of a battle with armored soldiers on rearing horses, spears raised, and fallen warriors in a forest.

A battle of soldiers some on horseback

Master of, ca. 1510-1520

Engraving of mourners carrying Christ's body to a rocky tomb, with three crosses on a hill and an inscription on a stone bloc

The Entombment of Christ

Andrea Mantegna, before 1475

Engraving of Joseph gesturing among two seated men and a bowl of fruit, with a figure in shadow behind.

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharoah's Chief Butler and Baker

Jusepe de Ribera, 1766-67

Etching of a bearded turbaned man seated with a shirtless youth, an animal skull and open book in the foreground, trees and r

Magician with four Figures near a smoking Altar, from the Scherzi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1743-52

Brown wash drawing of a craggy rock cliff with fissures, topped by trees and foliage.

Rocky Cliff

Johann Christian Reinhart, 18th-19th century

Pen drawing of a draped standing figure raising a chalice, with horizontal hatching in the background.

Saint John the Evangelist

Andrea Schiavone

Pen and wash drawing of the west front of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, with colonnaded wings, domed pavilions and a ground plan.

West Front of Houghton Hall in Norfolk, Perspective

Thomas Ripley, 1735