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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Broadside of sixteen caricatures of people with animal heads, each with a Spanish verse, titled Celebridades del Mundo No. 66

Broadside with 16 caricature figures representing celebrities of the world

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Broadside of 48 numbered woodcut allegorical scenes with the sun and moon at top, titled El Sol y la Luna.

Broadside with 48 allegorical figures pertaining to the sun and the moon

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Printed broadside with 48 numbered scenes of Barcelona festivals and street customs, with Spanish captions.

Broadside with 48 scenes depicting the celebrations and customs of Barcelona

Juan Llorens, ca. 1860-70

Satirical lithograph of a parade of caricatured men with flags, a domed building, and a boar lying on scattered papers.

The Grand Review of the Juste-Milieu Passing La Caricature, October 30, 1832 (Grand revue passée par la caricature le…

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, October 1832

Lithograph of crowned children on a rocking horse with a seated woman and a figure holding a scepter, French caption below.

Very Haughty and Very Mighty Legitimist Brats

Honoré Daumier, February 1834

Grey wash drawing of a wooded mountain valley with a waterfall on the right and grazing cattle in the foreground.

The Falls of Lodore

Thomas Sunderland, 1764-1828

Pencil and wash drawing of a stone balustrade with floral panels and two carved lion guardian figures on pedestals.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Balustrade with Chinese Motif

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Grey wash drawing of a church with a spire beside ruined abbey walls, an arched gateway and figures on open ground.

The Church and Ruins of Rijnsburg, Seen from the Northeast

Cornelis Pronk, 1753

Grey wash drawing of a winter village with skaters on ice, a stone bridge, a windmill, a horse and children.

Winter Landscape with Skaters and Sledges on the Ice, a Bridge and a Mill behind

Abraham van Strij, n.d.

Pencil and wash drawing of a crowned rider on a white horse entering a city past a triumphal arch, with soldiers and crowds.

The Entrance of Charlemagne into Pavia

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1840

Watercolor drawing of a woman arranging flowers before a bust, with a glasshouse and swans behind, framed by bird and fountai

An Allegory of Empress Josephine as Patroness of the Gardens at Malmaison

François Gérard, ca. 1805-6

Watercolor of geese and goslings alarmed by foxes and cubs emerging from rushes beside a pond under a willow.

A Goose and a Gander with their Goslings Honking in Alarm as Two Foxes with their Cubs Emerge from the Rushes

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and ink drawing of two nude classical statues beside rearing horses on a ruined pedestal, with small figures nearby.

The Dioscuri on Monte Cavallo (recto); Study of a Spiral Staircase (verso)

Maarten van Heemskerck, ca. 1533

Engraving of a crowned rider on horseback with attendants, and a gaunt nude corpse on the left beside a bare tree.

The King's Sons Shooting Their Father's Corpse

Master MZ, ca. 1500

Brown wash drawing of a gallows with a hanged figure, birds rising above, and small figures on a dark ridge under a pale sky.

The Hanged Man

Victor Hugo, ca. 1855-60

Ornate pen and wash title page for the Illustrirte Zeitung 1856, with a winged lyre-playing figure, cityscapes and allegorica

Title Page for "Illustrirte Zeitung 1856"

Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren, 1856

Brown ink drawing of a wide dune landscape with a herdsman and sheep under a cloudy sky.

A Panoramic Landscape with a Herdsman and His Flock

Jan Ruischer, 17th century

Etching of a great windblown beech tree with twisted roots, with two small figures and a dog in woodland at left.

The Great Beech (Two Farmers with their Dog)

Jacob van Ruisdael, ca. 1652

Etching of Christ crucified between two thieves, lit from above, with soldiers on horseback and a crowd below.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1660

Engraving of a crowned king fleeing a unicorn through a forest, with armored horsemen and a stone archway nearby.

A King Pursued by a Unicorn, from the Unicorn Series

Jean Duvet, ca. 1555

Etched design of an ornate fireplace with a bird in a shell, armor frieze, overmantel with candelabra, and flanking chairs.

Bird in shell at the center of the lintel, with a frieze of trophies, surmounted by an overmantel with candelabra and…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769 (?)

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a staff feeling his way along a wall in a dim interior, with a dog at his feet.

The Blindness of Tobit

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Reddish-brown chiaroscuro woodcut in three panels showing nude men abducting women among horses and classical architecture.

The Rape of the Sabines

Andrea Andreani, 1585

Etching of a bull attacked by dogs in a bullring while a mounted horseman in a plumed hat watches from the right.

Plate 25 from "La Tauromaquia": They loose dogs on the bull

Francisco Goya, 1816

Engraving of St. John writing on Patmos with an eagle, a tree, sea and boats, and the Virgin and Child in light above.

St. John the Evangelist on Patmos

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Engraving of a centaur and a bearded satyr carrying a nude curly-haired man across a rocky landscape under clouds.

The March of Silenus

Christoffel Jegher, ca. 1652

Etching of a curly-haired toddler in flowing drapery playing with a puppet beside a small dog, by Fragonard.

Fanfan

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1778

Etching of a donkey-headed man in a coat reading a book of horse images at a desk, from Goya's Los Caprichos.

Plate 39 from "Los Caprichos": And so was his grandfather (Asta su Abuelo)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of two crouching lionesses and a reclining doe, arranged in three stacked studies on a pale sheet.

A Doe and Two Lionesses

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, ca. 1540

Etching of a river ferry with passengers, a riverside inn with travelers and horses, and a town with a spire beyond.

The Ferry

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649