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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Engraved vertical ornament panel with scrolling foliage, paired fish, rosettes and a central candelabrum motif.

Vertical Panel with Candelabrum Containing Pairs of Fish and Rosettes

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1552

Engraved vertical ornament panel with a cherub head, scrolling foliage, a candelabrum, and a woman with fish tails.

Vertical Panel with a Candelabrum Containing a Child's Head and a Woman with Two Fish Tails

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1528

Engraved horizontal ornament panel with symmetrical acanthus leaves, tendrils and spiral scrolls around a central vase form.

Horizontal Panel with Two Tendrils Sprouting from the Center, Ending in Volutes

Heinrich Aldegrever, ca. 1529

Engraving of two nude children holding up a pedestal topped by a satyr playing bagpipe, on a crosshatched background.

Vertical Panel with Two Children Supporting a Pedestal with a Satyr Playing a Bagpipe

Heinrich Aldegrever, ca. 1527

Dagger Sheath Decorated with Tendrils and Two Profiles

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1537

Engraved vertical ornament panel with a candelabrum held by two satyrs and two more satyrs beneath a goat's head.

Panel with Candelabrum Containing Two Couples of Satyrs

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1549

Pencil study of an angel marking a kneeling haloed woman, with two draped figures floating above in an arched frame.

Angel Sealing the Servants of God (Study for the Anna, Margaret Sherman and Gertrude Van Dalfsen Memorial Window, Tri…

John La Farge, 1889

Pencil panorama of a river landscape with trees, grazing cow and a walking figure in an open sketchbook.

Panorama of the Charles River June 22 '86 (from Sketchbook VII)

William Trost Richards, 1886

Woodblock print of two women in kimono, one holding a lantern and the other an umbrella, by Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1800.

“Geisha” from the series Three Amusements of Contemporary Beauties (Tōsei bijin san’yū: Geigi)

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1800

Pen drawing of an oval design with a flower garland framing a domed pavilion, cherubs and a reclining figure.

Design for a Navette

Hubert François Gravelot

Pencil sketch of a drunken Silenus riding a donkey, surrounded by satyrs and draped figures in a frieze-like procession.

Drunken Silenus Riding on an Ass

Jacques Sarazin, 17th century

Drawing of a bacchanal wedding feast with revelers, musicians, putti, and an elephant beneath grapevines, in red chalk and wa

The Wedding Feast of Bacchus and Ariadne

Guy Louis Vernansal the Elder, ca. 1709

Pen and ink caricature of a scowling man's bust with a cigarette, captioned "Phil May's Bust. Has he?"

"Phil May's Bust. Has he?"

Phil May, ca. 1882

Grey wash drawing of craggy rock formations with boulders and trees, pen outlines on pale paper.

Design for rock-work at Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park

Thomas Sandby, 1780s (?)

Etching of a bacchanal: a satyr playing pipes by a tree, and dancing putti and a satyr carrying vines and a basket of fruit.

Bacchanal with satyr playing a lute and surrounded by four figures, who look toward a succession of three putti and a…

Giulio Carpioni, 1640-60

Engraving of about fifteen nude children dancing in a line, one playing a trumpet at left, hands linked.

Fifteen Nude Children Dancing

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1535

Architectural elevation drawing of a tall church spire with clock face, arched windows, coat of arms and a weathervane.

Design for the Spire of the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen

Vincents Lerche, ca. 1738-42

Watercolor of Dumbarton Rock with a fortress on its cliffs, a sailboat and rowing boat on calm water.

Dumbarton Rock from the South

Joseph Farington, 1788