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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Brown wash drawing of figures on a path under tall trees, with a town and bay visible in the distance.

Figures in a Grove above the Bay of Naples

Jakob Wilhelm Hüber, 1820

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate urn with cherubs and a mask relief on a tall pedestal with a swag.

Design for a Tomb with an Urn

Johann Gottfried Schadow, late 18th-19th century

Study drawing of the Trinity and saints around the Sacred Hearts, with kneeling clerics, a ship at sea, and a rococo frame.

A Study for a Frontispiece: The Trinity and Saints surrounding the Sacred Hearts of Christ and the Virgin Mary, a Coa…

Vitus Felix Rigl, 1743-79

Pencil landscape sketch of rolling hills, a ruined stone tomb on the right, and distant mountains under a cloudy sky.

View of the Appian Way

August Leopold Venus, 1866

Etching of a half-timbered old house with a steep roof and barrels at the shopfront, with figures walking a street.

An Old House, or The Musician's House, Bourges

Charles Meryon, 1860

Etched naval battle plan of Sinope showing ships on depth lines, a compass rose, a legend key, and a handwritten note.

Plan du Combat de Sinope (Plan of the Battle of Sinope)

Charles Meryon, 1853

Etching of a long Gothic hall with vaulted ceiling, statues on columns, and small figures walking across the floor.

La salle des pas-perdus a l'ancien Palais de Justice (The antechamber of the Palais de Justice, Paris)

Charles Meryon, 1855

Etching of a footbridge over a river in Paris, with timber houses, Gothic buildings, a rowboat and figures.

Passerelle du Pont-au-Change, après l'incendie de 1621 (The Footbridge temporarily replacing the Pont-au-Change, Pari…

Charles Meryon, 1860

Etching of a wooden footbridge over a river beside a church and half-timbered houses, with rowing boats and figures in the fo

The footbridge temporarily replacing the Pont-au-Change, Paris, after the fire of 1621, after della Bella

Charles Meryon, 1860

Etching of the Old Louvre palace seen across the Seine, with boats, bales of goods, and figures on the riverbank under cloudy

The Old Louvre, Paris, after Zeeman

Charles Meryon, 1865-66

Etching of the Old Louvre palace across the Seine with boats, figures on the quay, and a cloud-filled sky.

L'Ancien Louvre (The Old Louvre, Paris)

Charles Meryon, 1865-66

Engraved title page with a seated woman writing in a circular landscape vignette, above printed title and London imprint.

Title Page, "Sancho's Letters, with Memoirs of his Life," by Joseph Jekyll, Esq., M.P.

Francesco Bartolozzi, December 20, 1802

Sepia engraving of Romeo in pilgrim dress holding a staff, touching hands with Juliet, as an older woman gestures beside them

Romeo and Juliet at the Masquerade (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5)

Francesco Bartolozzi, June 15, 1785

Engraving of a winged nymph crowning a bust of Shakespeare as cherubs bring laurel garlands, with a waterfall behind.

The Nymph of Immortality, Attended by the Loves, Crowning the Bust of Shakespeare

Francesco Bartolozzi, September 1784

Oval stipple engraving of a young woman in a flower crown holding a basket of blossoms, inscribed Ophelia.

Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4)

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1784

Etching of a figure lying on the ground with a sword while another figure in flowing robes reaches out, set among trees.

Pyramus et Thisbe, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a helmeted warrior with shield and spear facing a coiled dragon beneath a tree, with a hanging figure above.

Jason, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Pluto enthroned with a staff beside a kneeling veiled woman, before a curtain and rocky underworld setting.

Pluto, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Diana with a crescent in her hair, standing among trees with two dogs at her feet and a hill in the distance.

Diana, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of a winged child with a laurel wreath sketching on a pad beside ancient ruins and a triumphal arch.

Plate 1: the genius of drawing, a child with wings, seated on a rock in center turned towards the right, holding a dr…

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641-43

Head of Minerva, from 'Various heads and figures' (Diverses tétes et figures)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Etched bust portrait of a bearded man in a fur hat with a feather, turned slightly to the right.

Bust of a Pole, from "Drawing Basics" (I principii del disegno)

Stefano Della Bella, after 1641

Head of a Woman in Profile

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Etching of a woman's head in three-quarter view, looking upward, wearing a wrapped headscarf, with a decorative frame.

Head of a Woman in Three Quarter View, from "Various heads and figures" (Diverses tétes et figures)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Head of a young man in profile, from "Various Portraits" (Recueil de Diverses Piéces Servant à l'Art de Portraiture)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1647

Head of a Bald and Bearded Old Man in Profile, from 'Various heads and figures' (Diverses tétes et figures)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Plate 10: Head of a Soldier, from "Drawing Basics" (I principii del disegno)

Stefano Della Bella, after 1641

Bust of a Soldier in Profile, from 'Various heads and figures' (Diverses tétes et figures)

Stefano Della Bella, 1650

Two Heads of Old Soldiers

Stefano Della Bella, after 1641

Etched title page with a decorative cartouche, drapery, and two birds framing the words Diverses figures et griffonnemens.

Title page, from 'Various figures and doodles' (Diverses figures et griffonnemens)

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1646