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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Engraving of St. James confronting a magician amid demons, witches, a cauldron and flying figures in a crowded scene.

St. James and the Magician Hermogenes from The Story of the Magician Hermogenes

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Engraving of three sailing ships anchored near a fortified island with a tower, rowboats and billowing clouds.

Four-Master (Left) and Two Three-Masters Anchored near a Fortified Island with a Lighthouse from The Sailing Vessels

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1561-65

Engraving of a haloed saint surrounded by demons, witches and grotesque creatures in a cluttered magician's workshop and sky.

St. James and the Magician Hermogenes

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Engraving of the parable of the wise and foolish virgins with an angel in clouds, a Gothic hall, and dancing figures.

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1560-63

Engraving of a Gothic church with kneeling worshippers around an allegorical figure of Faith beside a ladder and crucifix.

Faith (Fides), from "The Virtues"

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1559-60

Engraving of an allegorical figure labeled Spes amid a flood, with people fleeing on rooftops and boats in rough water.

Hope (Spes), from "The Virtues"

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559-60

Engraving of Pride with a woman holding a mirror beside a peacock, surrounded by grotesque creatures and fantastical building

Pride (Superbia) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558

Engraving of Avarice showing a woman counting coins by a chest, greedy figures, scales, and a fiery demon-filled landscape.

Avarice (Avaritia) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558

Engraving of grotesque armored figures fighting in a crowd, with a tall hooded figure and a burning town behind them.

Anger (Ira), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter van der Heyden, 1558

Engraving of nude figures and grotesque creatures in a fantastical landscape, illustrating Lust from The Seven Deadly Sins.

Lust (Luxuria) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter van der Heyden, 1558

Engraving of Anger from The Seven Deadly Sins showing a witch with a flask, brawling soldiers, grotesque beasts and a burning

Anger (Ira) from The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter van der Heyden, 1558

Engraving of Avarice showing a woman counting coins amid demons, greedy figures, and a burning town under smoky skies.

Avarice (Avaritia), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558

Pen and ink drawing of a standing soldier with a plumed helmet, billowing cape, sword and long pike, on an arched sheet.

A Standing Soldier

Michel Kirmer, 1561

Pen and ink drawing of fortified city walls with crenellated towers, angled bastions, and an arcaded building behind them.

Recto: "Libro Primo, Chapo Quarto..." (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 4); Verso: The Fortification of City Walls (Vitruvi…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Ink drawing of a columned temple elevation, a floor plan, and a background with a round building and arched bridge, with hand

Recto: Temple Types: in Antis and Prostyle (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, nos. 2, 3); Verso: Temple Types: Peripteral…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Pen and brown ink drawing of a walled city by a river with obelisks, a fortress and hills, framed by trees and rocks.

The Port City of Alexandria (? Allusion to Dinocrates's Building of Alexandria, Vitruvius, Book 2, introduction, no.…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Pen and ink drawing of labeled trees in a landscape with hills, a pond and ducks.

Recto: On Timber, the Species of Trees (Vitruvius, Book 2, Chapter 9, no. 4); Verso: On Timber, the Battle of Larigni…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Pen and brown ink drawing of a hilly ancient city with amphitheaters, obelisks, and cave openings, with a floor plan below.

Recto: The Houses of the Barbarians (Vitruvius, Book 2, Chapter 1, nos. 3, 4); Verso: The Aeropagus in Athens with Ca…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Pen and brown ink landscape with wind-blown trees, small figures, a wooden structure and clouds in the sky.

Recto: Landscape with Trees and Figures (? Remarks on the Winds and the Lay-out of the City; Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapt…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Pen drawing of a temple plan and a perspective view of a columned temple with statues, with Italian notes below.

Recto: Temple Types: Amphiprostyle (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, no. 4); Verso: Temple Types: Pseudodipteral (Vitruv…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Pen and ink drawing of a ruined Roman temple with fluted columns and a pediment, standing in water with reeds and ducks.

Recto: Front Elevation of a Roman Temple in Ruins (inspired by Giuliano da Sangallo); Verso: Elevation of the Nave of…

Sangallo family, 1530-45

Engraved oval portrait of a young man with curly hair and lace collar, framed by a laurel wreath and a crowned fleur-de-lis s

Portrait of Louis XIV

Pieter van Schuppen, 1650-1702

Pen drawing of five nude dancing putti in a row, one playing a drum and another raising a small instrument overhead.

Five Dancing Putti

Amico Aspertini, n.d.

Hand-colored print of a carter whipping a horse as a cart overturns and figures fall into a river beside a cottage.

The Carter and the Gipsies

Thomas Rowlandson, May 10, 1815

Hand-colored print of skaters on a frozen lake and horse-drawn sleighs in snowy Central Park under a full moon.

Moon Light in Central Park

Haskell and Allen, ca. 1871-75

Black and white chalk drawing of a boy in a buttoned jacket asleep, slumped over his arms beside a hat and staff.

A Sleeping Shepherd Boy

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 17th century

Engraving of a muscular bearded man in a helmet, arms folded, with a draped cloth at his waist, on a pale sheet.

Joseph of Arimathea, after Michelangelo's Crucifixion fresco in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1540-66

Bust portrait of Michelangelo facing right, set within a cartouche

Giulio Bonasone, 1546

Watercolor architectural drawing of a Gothic Revival university facade with towers, battlements and a large pointed-arch wind

University of the City of New York, Washington Square (facade of main building)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1833

Watercolor of City Hall Park in New York with trees, a church spire, row buildings, and City Hall at right, 1826.

City Hall Park, New York

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1826