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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

4,814 works

Woodcut of three mounted heroes labeled Hector, Alexander and Julius Caesar, with plumed helmets and decorated horse trapping

Hector, Alexander, Julius Caesar, from the Nine Heroes

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1520

Woodcut of three crowned kings on horseback, each labeled by a banner inscription, with ornate horse trappings and robes.

Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasses, from The Twelve Kings of Israel

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1520

Woodcut of three mounted kings, David playing a harp, Solomon with scepter, and Rehoboam with spear, under inscribed banners.

David, Solomon, Rehoboam, from The Twelve Kings of Israel

Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Engraving of a kneeling woman, a standing armored knight, a mounted rider, and a dragon fight in a rocky background.

St. George Liberating the Princess

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1508

Engraving of a crowd of men in turbans and feathered hats watching a kneeling woman reach toward a stone lion's head.

The Mouth of Truth

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1514

Engraving of a crowded city square with soldiers, spectators on balconies, a tower and a dog in the foreground.

Large Ecce Homo

Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Etched print of a woman holding a flower vase beside children, a bird, a caged animal and a willow tree.

The Chinese Gardener

John Ingram, 1741-63

Engraved aerial view of the Palace of Versailles with crowded forecourt, formal gardens, fountains and distant hills.

Veüe generale du chateau de Versailles

Adam Pérelle, 1680s

Engraved ornamental title page with eagles, monkeys, squirrels and a central oval cartouche with French and German text.

Title Page, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler

Theodor de Bry, 1580-1600

Etching of a herd of cattle and goats led by a herdsman past classical columns, with a tower on a hill in the distance.

The Herd Returning in Stormy Weather

Claude Lorrain, 1651

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi: Virgin and Child in a stable, a kneeling king, attendants, horses and sheep under a lig

Adoration of the Magi

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1553-60 (?)

Engraved print of a woman in a long gown on a cliff edge, with a raven on a branch, a fir tree and distant mountains.

Woman with a Raven at a Precipice

Christian Friedrich, 1803

Engraved print of allegorical scenes in rows showing figures, animals, a ladder and a ship, with verse captions.

Proverbi (Proverbs)

Nicolò Nelli, 1564

Woodcut of a crowned figure leaning over a sleeping nude man among animals, under clouds with sun and moon faces.

Creation of Eve, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Hand-colored engraving of red-coated soldiers firing volleys into a street crowd, with victims on the ground and a church tow

The Boston Massacre, or, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5, 1770 by a party of the 29…

Paul Revere Jr., 1770

Engraving of an ornate triumphal car with urns, a helmeted armored figure, reclining river gods, and processional figures.

Triumphal car from the marriage of Ferdinand de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine

Cherubino Alberti, 1589

Engraved satire of false perspective showing a fisherman, sheep, swans, a boat and a wagon in illogical scale and placement.

Satire on False Perspective: Frontispiece to "Kirby's Perspective"

Luke Sullivan, February 1754

Red chalk drawing of God appearing in clouds with an angel, a kneeling man looking up, and sheep below.

God Appearing to Moses

Pierre Brébiette, ca. 1632

Etching of fashionable figures shopping among bookstalls, fan and lace shops in a 17th-century Parisian gallery, with dogs in

The Gallery of the Palace of Justice

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1638

Watercolor drawing of a brown and grey songbird perched on a curved branch with exposed roots, labeled Castrica Passerina.

Castrica Passerina

Vincenzo Leonardi

Watercolor of figures and sailing boats on a beach beneath a dark storm cloud, with dunes and cottages at left.

Figures on a beach in northern France

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1830

Engraving of Prospero and Miranda beside Caliban reaching toward the flying spirit Ariel in a rocky cave, from Shakespeare's

The Enchanted Island Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Ac…

Peter Simon, first published 1797; reissued 1852

Etched Egyptian-style chimneypiece with a caryatid, mummy figure, hieroglyphs and sphinx heads above a burning fire.

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Mummy superimposed on a large caryatid above the lintel (Ch. à l'égyptiennne surm…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769

Grey wash architectural fantasy of a ruined classical pediment with urns, a fountain, a reclining figure and a wolf with twin

Architectural Fantasy

Johann Ferdinand von Hohenberg, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of Christ riding a donkey as a crowd waves palm branches and children reach toward him.

Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

Hans Stutte, 1611

Engraving of a stout seated man with a cane at a table with companions, a standing youth and woman at right, dogs and armor.

The Seven Ages, Fifth Age: The Justice (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7)

Peter Simon, first published 1801; reissued 1852

Grey wash drawing of peasants resting under a tree with cattle and sheep in a pastoral landscape.

Peasants with Cattle and Sheep

Adriaen van de Velde, mid-17th century

Hand-colored print of Washington on a white horse under flags, greeted by women in gowns strewing flowers.

Washington's Reception by the Ladies on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N.J., April 1789, on His Way to New York to be…

Nathaniel Currier, 1845

Sepia print of a busy cobbled Broadway street with carriages, pedestrians, and a classical City Hall building.

Broadway and City Hall in New York (Brodway-Gatan Och Rådhuset i New York)

Carl Fredrik Akrell, 1824

Pen drawing of a cobbled street with timber buildings, a woman and a man in tricorn hat walking, figures by a wall and a ship

The Sunday Walk, illustration to "Sally in Our Alley"

Edwin Austin Abbey, ca. 1886