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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,087 works

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Experience with the poem A Poison Tree, a tree, and a reclining figure below.

Songs of Experience: A Poison Tree

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Pen and gray wash drawing of a canal with a wooden hut, a fisherman with a rod, a rowboat, and trees.

Canal Landscape with a Fisherman

Jacob van Ruisdael, 17th century

Pen and wash landscape of two figures talking in a field, a church tower and trees on the horizon, cloudy sky.

Landscape with Two Figures Conversing

Salomon van Ruysdael, 17th century

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 wash drawing of a river valley with rocky cliffs, a castle on a crag, boats on the water, and figures in the foregrou

River Landscape with Mountains

Herman Saftleven, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a river with a masted sailing boat and rowboat beside a densely wooded bank.

River Scene with Boats before a densely Wooded Bank

Salomon van Ruysdael, 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

Drawing of a wooded landscape with a large tree, a winding path, and a distant village on blue-grey paper.

Wooded Landscape with a House by a River

Lucas van Uden, 17th century

Ink and brown wash drawing of a spreading tree with drooping branches on a grassy mound.

Study of a Tree

Marten van Valckenborch, mid-16th-early 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

Pale brown wash drawing of a flat canal landscape with sailboats, a rowing boat of figures, windmills and a farmhouse.

Canal Landscape with Figures

Abraham de Verwer, 17th century

Pencil drawing of cows grazing in a flat landscape with a herdsman, sheep, trees and distant windmills under a cloudy sky.

Cows in a Landscape

Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, 19th century

Graphite drawing of sheep and a lamb resting by a wooden fence, with a hen and a distant village in an open landscape.

Sheep in a Landscape

Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, 1870

Brown ink drawing of a mountainous valley with a hilltop town, travelers with staffs, a bridge, and a watermill.

Mountainous Landscape with Tobias and the Angel

Tobias Verhaecht, 1575-1631

Pen and ink landscape of jagged mountains, pine trees, a wooden bridge over a river, and travelers on a road.

Mountainous Landscape with Travelers on a Road

Tobias Verhaecht, 1616

Brown ink drawing of a river landscape with trees, shrubs, clouds, and a traveler with a dog on a path.

River Landscape with Traveler

Cornelis Vroom, 17th century

Pencil drawing of thatched farm buildings, a mill wheel, a rowboat and a bare tree in a rolling landscape.

Landscape with a Mill (recto); A Steepled Façade and Farm House (verso)

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Blue-grey wash drawing of a shadowed forest with a waterfall cascading over rocks beneath tall trees.

River Landscape with Mountain Stream

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a river winding past leaning trees and a wooden gate under a pale sky.

River Landscape

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Watercolor of flat dunes with a thatched cottage, windmills and a church tower under a cloudy sky.

View of Haarlem from the Dunes

Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, mid-19th-early 20th century

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

Brown ink and wash drawing of a river with boats, a large tree, and buildings along the banks.

River View in Italy

Gaspar Adriaensz. van Wittel, mid-17th-mid-18th century

Brown wash drawing of an Italianate landscape with a farmhouse inn, a dirt road, tall pines and distant hills.

Italianate River Landscape with an Inn

Gaspar Adriaensz. van Wittel, mid-17th-mid-18th century

Etched landscape with hills, a walled town by a river, grazing cattle, and a mythological chariot in the clouds above.

Landscape with Mercury Holding Argus's Head

Hieronymus Cock, 16th century

Etching of a village road with a thatched farmhouse, sheds, tall trees, and a woman with a child walking in the foreground.

Village Road with a Farm and Sheds, from the series, The Small Landscapes (Multifariarum Casularum)

Johannes van Doetecum I, 1559-61

Etching of a village road with thatched cottages, a post mill, cultivated fields, and a rider on horseback.

Fields with a Village Road with Post Mill, from the series The Small Landscapes (Multifariarum Casularum)

Johannes van Doetecum I, 1559-61

Engraved landscape with a rocky hill, hermitage chapel, kneeling saint, lion, crucifix, and village in the valley.

Landscape with Saint Jerome

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70

Etching of a river landscape with a large tree, boats, a walled town, a rocky mountain, and birds in the sky.

Mountain Landscape

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70

Etching of a man in a rowboat on a still lake, holding a fishing rod while netting a fish, with trees on the shore.

Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake

Winslow Homer, 1889

Wood engraving of three boys in tall grass watching a loaded stagecoach travel a road toward distant hills, on a magazine cov

On the Road to Lake George (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)

Winslow Homer, July 24, 1869