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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,814 works

Pen and watercolor drawing of mounted cavalrymen raising curved sabres, one holding a pink standard, against a cloudy sky.

Unused study for a plate to "Hungarian and Highland Broadsword Exercise" Feb. 12, 1799

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1799

Gray wash drawing of a jockey waving his cap on a galloping horse while a man watches on the right.

How to Escape Losing

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1791

Pen and ink drawing of oxen and a horse hauling a felled log past trees and rolling hills.

Landscape with Oxen and Felled Tree

Thomas Rowlandson, 1775-1827

Watercolor of travelers riding and mounting donkeys at a post beneath a stone archway, with onlookers and a dog.

Pleasure of a Poste aux Anes, from Sentimental Travels

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1821

Pencil sketch of men dining at a table in a vaulted interior with dogs on the floor and a hearth at right.

Dr. Syntax and the Superannuated Fox Hunters

Thomas Rowlandson, 1820

Pen and ink caricature of a rider on a horse loaded with saddlebags labeled Hastings and Wrongs, with handwritten verses.

The Q A loaded with the spoils of India and Britain, March 6, 1788

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1788

Pen sketch of a military review with marching soldiers, banners, mounted officers on horseback, and a crowd of onlookers.

A Military Review

Thomas Rowlandson, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and watercolor street scene of St. Austell, Cornwall, with a church tower, shops, pedestrians, a horse and dogs.

St. Austle, Cornwall

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Watercolor of farm workers washing potatoes in a tub beside a cart of sacks, with children, a dog and poultry nearby.

Farming scene

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Watercolor landscape of a winding country road with riders, walkers, farm fields, a farmhouse and a distant church tower.

Landscape

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Pen and watercolor tavern scene with a serving woman, seated men at a table, and a dog on the floor.

Tavern scene

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Engraving of the Conversion of Saul: a rearing horse, falling soldiers on a hill, and God and angels in clouds above.

Conversion of Saul, from Michelangelo's fresco in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican

Nicolas Béatrizet, ca. 1545-60

Ink and wash drawing of cavalry soldiers resting in a camp with horses, a wagon, and tents in the distance.

Cavalry Men at Rest

Georg Philipp Rugendas, late 17th-mid-18th century

Pen and blue wash drawing of mounted riders and a fallen figure in the foreground, with a walled city on a hill behind.

The Conversion of St. Paul

Melchior Bocksberger, 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of a hilly landscape with framing trees, a hilltop town, a distant mountain, and travellers with horses

Hilly Landscape with Travellers

Johann Georg von Dillis, late 18th-mid-19th century

Black and white lithograph of two cows, goats and sheep in a grassy landscape with a tree, pond and cloudy sky.

Salon of 1842: Landscape with Animals

Jules Robert Pierre Joseph Challamel, 1842

Etching of a man on a horse before a ruined arched building, with a boy, a dog, and figures on a staircase.

The Good Samaritan

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Brown ink drawing of a hilly coastal village with sailing boats, hunters, and a decorative border of birds and fish.

Hilly Coastal Landscape with Hunters, with an elaborate border of Fishes and Birds

Engraved landscape with a ruined church, a peasant reading a tombstone, grazing sheep, and trees under a cloudy sky.

Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Reading a Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and a Ruined Church

Thomas Gainsborough, August 1, 1797

Engraved 18th-century interior of a man in a satin robe attended by servants, with gentlemen and a dog nearby.

The Morning Toilet (La Petite Toilette), from "Le Monument du Costume"

Pietro Antonio Martini, 1745-97

Etching of an Egyptian-style architectural design with sacred animals above, seated figures, sphinxes, and distant pyramids.

Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, e G…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769

Watercolor design of a wall with a central hunting medallion, flanking arched panels of fruit and still life, and gilt orname

Design for Decorative Panels with Hunting Scenes Inset

J. S. Pearse, 1854

Pen drawing of two ornamental friezes with acanthus scrolls, cherubs, lions and winged horses.

Sketch of Two Friezes, Palazzo Mattei

Thomas Hardwick, 1776-79

Mezzotint of a lion attacking a white horse in a rocky, wooded landscape, with trees framing the scene.

The Lion and Horse

Benjamin Green, November 1, 1777

Watercolor drawing of a blue and orange kingfisher with a long beak perched on a gnarled branch.

A Kingfisher on a Branch

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 16th century

Pen and ink design drawing of a console table with a central lion mask, scrolled swags and animal legs ending in hooves.

Design for a table with a cat mask and goat legs

John Payne, 1600-40

Hand-colored chinoiserie print of figures on a bamboo bridge, parasols, garlands and flowering vines in soft pastel tones.

Chinoiserie, from "Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790-99

Engraving of a crested heron standing beside curling leaf-ornament scrollwork on a pale background.

Leaf-ornament with a Heron

Master ES, 15th century

Engraving of a wandering family and beggars on a road with a dog, a child holding an owl, and a castle in the distance.

The Beggars (Eulenspiegel)

Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Woodcut of a standing bearded man in a hat and cloak holding a banner with a rampant lion, by Lucas van Leyden, 1517.

Dirk First Count of Holland

Lucas van Leyden, 1517