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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,937 works

Hand-colored caricature of men riding rocking horses labeled with political causes, including Sub-Treasury and Abolition.

All on Hobbies, Gee Up, Gee Ho!

Edward Williams Clay, 1838

Hand-colored caricature of a corpse rising from a coffin as a startled man raises his arms, watched by horned devils.

A Galvanized Corpse

Henry R. Robinson, 1836

Hand-colored caricature of two uniformed men playing cribbage at a green card table, with a dog beside the chair at right.

A Game of Cribbage or Boney's Last Shuffle

George Cruikshank, June 6, 1814

Hand-colored caricature of five uniformed officers working a brick Allied Oven, with a crouched figure in blue in front.

The Allied Bakers or the Corsican Toad in the Hole

George Cruikshank, April 1, 1814

Hand-colored print of an old sculptor carving a cherub beside a seated nude model in a cluttered classical studio.

The Sculptor [Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus]

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800

Hand-colored caricature of two men feasting at a seaside table under a tree, with personified food and drink figures climbing

Peace and Plenty or Good News for John Bull!!!

George Cruikshank, May 25, 1814

Hand-colored print of a crowned man in costume carrying a theatre building on his head, with red curtains and an angel above.

The Theatrical Atlas

George Cruikshank, May 7, 1814

Ink sketch of a woman in a wide dark hat, hand at her chin, with red lips, on a tan background.

Portrait of a Woman

Egon Schiele, 1910

Ink drawing of a barefoot figure in a top hat with a giant eyeball for a head, standing above a hilly landscape.

Standing on the Base Ground... I Become a Transparent Eyeball (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pen drawing of corn, melons and a gourd with a human face, with a handwritten quote from Emerson's Nature below.

I Expand and Live in the Warm Day Like Corn and Melons (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pen drawing of a seated man watching walking houses, a snake and a pig, with a quote from Emerson's Nature above.

Build Your Own World. So Fast Will Disagreeable Things...Vanish (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pen and ink sketch of a man reading among stacked books and a candle, with a handwritten quotation about a bookworm below.

Instead of Man Reading We Have the Bookworm

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pencil caricature of a bearded man with tufted hair, huge curling beard and overcoat, one hand on hip.

Senator Dolph of Oregon (Joseph Norman Dolph)

Thomas Nast, ca. 1894

Caricature drawing of a large-headed bearded man seated on crates aboard a boat pulled by a mermaid across waves.

Samuel P. Avery Transporting His Treasures Across the Sea

Theodore Wust, ca. 1875-80

Blue and black Christmas greeting print of a snowy forest with a lit fir tree and a hooded figure, with German text.

Merry Christmas! (Frohe Weihnachten!)

Moriz Jung, 1907

Colour print of a small tiled-roof pavilion with bell tower, cobblestone path, hedges, fruit tree and a seated figure at the

Easter Card

Otto Friedr. Carl Lendecke, 1908

Color print of a small church on a grassy hill with two seated figures, rolling green fields, and the words Frohe Ostern belo

Happy Easter! (Frohe Ostern!)

Otto Friedr. Carl Lendecke, 1908

The Old Flemish Woman (La Vieille Flamande)

Engraved rococo garden scene with a couple strolling, cupids, fountains and ornate scrollwork frames.

Le Temps de L'Apres dinée

François-Antoine Aveline, 18th century

Engraved rococo garden scene with a strolling couple, a fountain, a seated reader, children, and cherubs on ornate scrollwork

Post Meridies, from the Hours of the Day

Jean Mondon le fils, 1736-45

Ink and wash drawing of servants attacking a fallen man in a room, with a landscape visible through an opening at right.

The Servants of Absalom killing Amnon (2 Samuel 13, 28-29); verso: Sketch of a seated woman

Karel van Mander I, late 16th-early 17th century

Pen and ink study of a Gothic arched window with lettering and sketched figures around it, for a book frontispiece.

Study for frontispiece for "Les Jeunes France" by Theophile Gautier

Sketches of Six Heads in Profile (caricatures?) (recto); Sketch of Head and Blank Rectangle (verso)

Loose pencil sketch of a standing figure wearing a helmet-like headdress and a draped garment against a shaded background.

Study of a Figure with Headress

Pen and ink sheet with figure studies: a female nude, a man's legs in boots, a torso, and hands, on a stained paper ground.

Studies of Female Nude, Hands, and Male Torso (recto); Landscape (verso)

Pen and brown ink drawing of a balustrade with two standing female figures holding garlands and two flowering urns.

Design for a Balustrade with Female Figures and Urns

Giulio Parigi, 16th-17th century

Pen drawing of an ornamental frieze with acanthus scrolls, a nude man wrestling a lion, and winged figures.

Frieze with Acanthus Scrolls and a Man (Hercules?) fighting a Lion

Jean Le Pautre, 17th century

Hand-colored print of the crowded Covent Garden Theatre interior, with tiered galleries, audience, and performers on stage.

Covent Garden Theatre

Thomas Rowlandson, 1792

Torn sheet with pen sketches of a column on a pedestal, handwritten notes, numerals, and Abildgaard seals.

Notes with a studies for the Column of Liberty (Frihedstøtten)

Nicolai Abildgaard, ca. 1791

Etching of a farmhouse and trees beside a canal, with a dirt road on the right and a distant church tower.

Landscape with a Farmhouse Along a Road Beside a Canal

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1652