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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,814 works

Grey paper with ink sketches of book headpieces and vignettes, including a laurel wreath, a winged figure, and a reclining fi

Studies for headpieces and vignettes in the book, Amor und Psyche (Opus V)

Max Klinger, 1878

Sepia drawing of a young girl in a bonnet beside a small dog, framed in a neoclassical architectural niche with a carved head

Portrait of a Girl and Her Dog

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, ca. 1796-97

Engraving of a huge beached sperm whale on a shore, with crowds, horsemen, barrels, sailing ships and hills behind.

Sperm whale beached near Berkhey on 3 February, 1598

Jacob Matham, 1598

Woman in plaid dress blowing a dinner horn outside an ivy-covered cottage, with field workers and a cat nearby.

The Dinner Horn (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIV)

Winslow Homer, June 11, 1870

Engraving of two hunters on snowshoes aiming rifles in a winter forest as a dog leaps and a deer flees.

Deer-Stalking in the Adirondacks in Winter (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series)

Winslow Homer, January 21, 1871

Etching of soldiers and cavalry marching at night along a forest road, with a burning tree and wagon.

A Night March, Plate 16 from "Life Studies of the Great Army"

Edwin Forbes, 1876

Engraved landscape with a hilltop castle, windmill, village, river boats, and falconers on horseback in the foreground.

Mountain Landscape with Falconers

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70

Colored architectural design of a Gothic altar chapel with pointed windows, scrollwork, a heraldic crest, and paneled walls.

Design for an Altar Chapel, Farnborough, England

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1880-86

Pen and ink design of seven vertical arabesque panels with scrolls, urns, cherubs, and classical motifs on paper.

Design for Seven Vertical Panels of Arabesque Decoration, Farnsborough, England

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1880-86

Pencil and wash design for a grand stairway with classical columns, painted panels, a seated woman and a peacock.

Ceiling and Cove Designs for Stairway, Hôtel Rothschild, Vienna

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1850-1910

Brown wash drawing of ornate ceiling and cove designs with classical figures, putti, garlands and architectural panels.

Ceiling and Cove Designs, Hôtel Rothschild, Vienna

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Composite drawing sheet of ornamental ceiling and cove sketches, with a painted putto and flower urn, scrolls, and tile patte

Fifteen Sketches for Ceiling and Cove Designs, Hôtel Rothschild, Vienna

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor elevation of a Gothic chapel nave with pointed arches, stained glass windows, and a patterned blue wall.

Elevation of Nave, Chapelle des Catéchismes, Ste Clothilde, Paris

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design of a circular domed ceiling with green scrollwork, lion heads and gilded moldings framed by purple bands.

Design for Domed Ceiling for Mme Païva's Chateau at Neudeck

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1877-84

Watercolor design for a vertical wall panel with a floral urn, songbirds, swags of foliage, and swan supports at the base.

Design for a Wall Panel

Henri Sallembier, n.d.

Pen sketch of a rider on a rearing horse inside a scrolling ornamental cartouche with a pedestal below.

Design for an Equestrian Statue in a Cartouche (recto); Sketches for a Frieze with Sea-Shells and Floral Ornament (ve…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Brown wash drawing of a Dutch street with a windmill, a stone city gate, strolling figures and a dog.

Entrance to The Hague from the South East

Jacob Elias La Fargue, 1750-76

Sketches of Sculptured Decoration. Entablatures and a Frieze with Human, Animal and Floral Ornaments

Agostino Mitelli, mid-17th century

Engraving of a couple on a terrace smelling flowers, with a formal garden and dogs beside a stone balustrade.

Smell

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1638

Engraving of a fashionable dinner scene with seated diners, a servant with a platter, a dog, and a tapestry behind.

Taste

Abraham Bosse, 1635-38

Engraving of a surgeon bandaging a seated woman's arm in a richly furnished room, with a servant holding a basin and dogs on

The Surgeon

Abraham Bosse, 1632

Engraving of a schoolmistress teaching young girls in a furnished room with a window, a dog, and a sweeping servant.

The School Mistress

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1638

Engraving of two sea gods with fish tails and four nude nymphs at a stone table under a tree, with doves flying overhead.

Two sea gods accompanied by four nymphs

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of a reclining bearded river god with cornucopia, a she-wolf and two infants, framed by a border of boats and anima

The Tiber, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Nicolas Béatrizet, mid-16th century

Brown wash drawing of riders falling beneath a divine light beam, with angels in clouds above a city wall.

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Ludovico Carracci, ca. 1587-89

Etching with two oval scenes: books burning on steps, and a man pointing at a tablet in an archway, with a dog below.

The Expulsion of the Jesuits

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1761

Ink drawing on blue paper of a wren on a thorny branch with leaves, berries and a beetle in a circular design.

Design for a Plate

Karl Bodmer, 1825-93

Pen and wash drawing of a decorative frontispiece frame with a cook, a servant, hanging game birds, fish, and vegetables.

Study for a Frontispiece

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1621

Ink and gray wash drawing of a haloed rider on horseback sharing his cloak with a beggar at his knee.

Saint Martin and the Beggar

Vittore Carpaccio, 1493-1500

Drawing of huntsmen and dogs retrieving ducks from a pond, with a company by a carriage and a distant town under a willow tre

Huntsmen and Company Observing Dogs Retrieving Ducks in a Pond (The Month of April)

Pieter Stevens, ca. 1610-20