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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2,392 works

Etching of a seated woman holding an infant under trees, surrounded by playful children and putti in a wooded landscape.

The garden of charity, woman representing Charity at right surrounded by children

Pietro Testa, ca. 1631-37

Woodcut landscape with a milkmaid milking a cow at right, a boy with a bucket and goats at left, and a distant castle.

Landscape with a milkmaid at right and a boy at left

Niccolò Boldrini, ca. 1535-40

Engraving of a street scene with a whipped horse, a carriage, and a man beating a sheep as a flock watches.

The Second Stage of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty)

William Hogarth, February 1, 1751

Engraving of figures in classical dress carrying barrels and baskets in a procession moving right, with trees behind.

Plate 3: various figures transporting materials, walking to the right

Pietro Sante Bartoli, ca. 1660-90

Etching of a bacchanalian procession with a wine vat cart, putti, grape baskets, and revelers blowing horns.

The Arrival of the Wine Vat

Joseph-Marie Vien, ca.1755

Oval etching of the Virgin Mary beside the infant Christ on straw, with angels and putti in clouds above.

The Adoration of the Angels

Carlo Maratti, 17th century

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi: Virgin and Christ Child before a pedestal, a kneeling crowned king, attendants, a horse

The Adoration of the Magi (copy in reverse)

Carlo Maratti, 17th century

Etching of the Virgin with the infant Christ and young John the Baptist, with a landscape view and curtain behind.

The Virgin and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist

Carlo Maratti, 1647

Etching of the Virgin and Christ Child receiving kneeling Magi beneath a column, with a star above and a camel in the backgro

The Adoration of the Magi

Carlo Maratti, 17th century

Oval etching of the Virgin with a kneeling woman, a sleeping infant, and cherubs floating overhead in a dim interior.

Virgin and Child with St. Mary Magdalen

Carlo Maratti, 17th century

Engraving of a grape harvest with women carrying baskets, a child, a man pouring from a jug beside a wooden vat, and a Latin

Vintage Scene

Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, 1704

Engraved portrait of a seated woman with a young girl holding flowers, with a garden landscape behind them.

Le Printemps

the Elder Jean Jacques Avril, 1760-1831

Engraving of the Virgin and Child standing on a globe over a serpent, surrounded by angels and cherubs among clouds.

Destroy the dragon without sword; (Dan. 14.25); Virgin and Child on hemisphere

Johann Jakob Frey the Elder

Etching of the Nativity in a semicircular frame, with Mary and the infant Christ, a seated elderly man, kneeling attendants a

Nativity

Robert van Audenaerde, 1680-1743

Trade card with a woman in a pink dress beside two runners leaping a wooden fence across a grassy field.

Hare and Hounds, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes

Goodwin & Company, 1889

Trading card of a woman portrait beside bathers in striped suits and hats wading and swimming in a river, 1889.

Swimming, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes

Goodwin & Company, 1889

Sepia cigarette card of a young woman in a hooded bonnet and apron adjusting her stocking on rocky ground.

(Minnie Palmer) from the Old Judge series (N167) for Old Judge Cigarettes

Goodwin & Company, 1886

Sepia trade card of a young child with curly hair and a bow, labeled "Old Judge", from an 1886 cigarette card series.

From the Old Judge series (N167) for Old Judge Cigarettes

Goodwin & Company, 1886

Engraving of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt, Mary on a donkey with the Christ Child, Joseph leading, angels above.

The Flight into Egypt

Antonio Tempesta

Etching of nude figures, children, and animals in a pastoral landscape beneath an oak tree, labeled Aetas aurea.

Plate 3: The Age of Gold (Aetas aurea), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Etching of a flood with figures on a rock, a boat, a floating ark, drowning animals and rain falling from dark clouds.

Plate 7: The Flood (Diluvium.), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Engraving of a man and woman throwing stones that turn into children, with a classical temple at right.

Plate 8: The Rebirth of Mankind (Reparatio generis humani), from Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Engraving of the Israelites on dry land while Egyptians drown in the Red Sea, with Moses raising his arms in the foreground.

Plate 8: The Egyptians Drowning in the Red Sea, from "The Battles of the Old Testament"

Antonio Tempesta, ca. 1590-1610

Engraving of Roma and Batavia shaking hands within a circle, with river gods and marching soldiers around them.

Plate 1: Roma and Batavia Shaking Hands, from "The War of the Romans Against the Batavians" (Romanorvm et Batavorvm s…

Antonio Tempesta, 1611

Etching of women and children watching a battle between Roman soldiers and Batavian forces near a walled city, with a horse-d

Plate 8: Women and Children Obvserve Civilis Battling the Romans, from "The War of the Romans Against the Batavians"…

Antonio Tempesta, 1611

Engraving of a cluttered bedchamber with a canopied bed, fireplace, seated woman, two wigged men and a kneeling woman at a tr

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5

William Hogarth, before April 1732

Etching of a crowded tavern-like room with women at a card table, a small child on the floor, and a bottle in the foreground.

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 6

William Hogarth, before April 1732

Engraved tomb monument in a classical interior, with cherubs holding spears and shields and a Latin inscription below.

Cœnotaphiorum (13)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraved design of a tall classical funerary monument with columns, niches, putti, and figures, with Latin verses below.

Cœnotaphiorum (27)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1563

Engraving of the Farnese Bull group: nude men roping a bull while a seated figure and dog sit in the foreground.

Amphion and Zethus Tying Dirce to a Wild Bull [The Farnese Bull], from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Diana Scultori, 1581