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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,937 works

Engraving of soldiers gathered around a fallen officer beneath a raised flag, with smoke and ships in the distance.

The Death of General Wolfe (September 13, 1759)

P. Somebody, after 1776

Engraving of officers shaking hands at a surrender, with soldiers, flags, a drummer and cannon, and French text below.

Sarratoga [sic] (The Surrender of General Burgoyne to General Horatio Gates, Battle of Saratoga, October 17, 1777)

François Godefroy, 1784?

Engraved battle scene of soldiers and smoke near a walled fort with ships on the water, titled Fort Constitution.

Attack on Fort Constitution, October 7, 1777

Johann Martin Will, ca. 1777

Engraved battle scene with smoke, cavalry charges, a cannon, officers in the foreground and a marching column near a bare tre

Battle of Saratoga, September 19, 1777

Johann Martin Will, ca. 1777

Hand-colored lithograph of a man swinging a racket between two women on a garden terrace, with cupids overhead.

Vive la France, Balancier, Both in "Tow"

Alfred E. Baker, ca. 1840

Hand-colored print of a family in a wagon driven by a galloping horse, with Catherine Market behind them.

Mose, Lize & Little Mose Going to California

Henry R. Robinson, ca. 1849

Hand-colored caricature of three figures on a city street, one holding up a large blue coat, with printed dialogue below.

Life in New York. Blakey, I say, can't you by the powers of your Stame Engine...?

Harrison Isaacs, ca. 1831

Hand-colored caricature print of three men in top hats and coats on a waterfront, with speech balloons and a distant sailing

Three Loafers (Trois Originaux)

Alfred E. Baker, 1836-41

Hand-colored satirical lithograph showing kneeling men begging a seated figure on sacks labeled Surplus Fund, with Seventh Wa

Seventh Ward Beggars

Henry R. Robinson, 1839

Satirical lithograph of comic Punch being fitted into a lantern-panelled jacket by tailors on a city street.

The Lantern Jacket

Nagel & Weingärtner, 1852

Sepia print of a lively 1784 gathering of women and men with bottles, a dog, and feathered hats around a table.

A Sketch from Nature

William Paulet Carey, January 24, 1784

Colorful print of a puppet theater with a trumpet player in blue, two puppets, and a geometric blue and white border.

Kasperltheater

Hans Kalmsteiner, 1907

Woodcut-style print of a white-faced clown in a blue ruff raising an axe over a black dog, framed by a blue triangular border

Kasperl Theater

Hans Kalmsteiner, 1907

Print of a woven basket with red and purple pansies, yellow blossoms and green leaves on a black dotted-border background.

Basket of Flowers

Leopoldine Kolbe, 1907

Hand-colored caricature of canvassers and voters crowding a cobbler's shop, with a feathered hat and a dog in the foreground.

Wit's Last Stake, or the Cobbling Voters and Abject Canvassers

Thomas Rowlandson, April 22, 1784

Etching of two women with Fox badges embracing men beside hanging meat, satirizing a 1784 political canvass by Rowlandson.

The Two Patriotic Duchesses on Their Canvass

Thomas Rowlandson, April 3, 1784

Satirical pen and ink caricature of a row of fashionably dressed figures with feathered hats and speech bubbles, by Thomas Ro

Kings Place, or a View of M [Fox's] Best Friends

Thomas Rowlandson, April 22, 1784

Hand-colored caricature of fashionable figures embracing, with a speech bubble reading Huzza for Ever, by Thomas Rowlandson,

The Devonshire, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes

Thomas Rowlandson, April 12, 1784

Etching of a woman, a dandy in a tricorn hat, and a scowling old man with a cane beside a wall marked Kings Place.

Which Way Shall I Turn Me? How Can I Decide?

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1780

Hand-colored caricature by Thomas Rowlandson with allegorical figures, scales, a crown, and speech bubbles around a pedestal.

A Touch on the Times

Thomas Rowlandson, December 29, 1788

Sepia etching of two women on a striped sofa, one playing a lute and the other holding open sheet music, both in ruffled dres

The Syrens

Thomas Rowlandson, April 10, 1787

Sepia print by Thomas Rowlandson, 1787: a woman in a plumed hat passes a gentleman and a beggar on a lamp-lit street.

Civility

Thomas Rowlandson, 1787

Engraving of men gambling with cards and coins at a tavern table, with a dog in the foreground and a man smoking a pipe.

Smithfield Sharpers, or the Countryman Defrauded

John Keyse Sherwin, April 10, 1787

Hand-coloured print of a crowded Covent Garden Theatre interior with tiered galleries, boxes, audience and two performers on

Covent Garden Theatre

Thomas Rowlandson, July 20, 1786

Hand-colored print of a crowded curving staircase with people falling and a classical statue in a niche.

The Exhibition "Stare-Case"

Thomas Rowlandson, 1811?

Etching of a man in a wig offering an apple to a feathered-hat woman, with two other fashionable women watching.

The Golden Apple, or the Modern Paris

Thomas Rowlandson, March 2, 1785

Hand-coloured caricature of an opera singer in gold armour before an exaggerated audience and orchestra.

John Bull at the Italian Opera

Thomas Rowlandson, October 2, 1811

Satirical print of men in a drunken party around a long table, with bottles strewn on the floor and a ballot box on the mante

The Brilliants

Thomas Rowlandson, January 15, 1801

Public Characters

Thomas Rowlandson, April 1, 1801

Hand-colored woodcut of Saint Ambrose, a haloed bishop in red mitre, seated at a desk writing in an open book in a study.

Saint Ambrose

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1492