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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,956 works

Pen and ink drawing of architectural moldings and cornice profiles with dimension notes, from Chippendale's Gothic bookcase d

Moldings for Gothic Library Bookcase, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1753

Pen and wash architectural drawing of a building elevation above a floor plan showing three interlocking gears and shafts.

Outbuilding with Three Gears, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, ca. 1760-1800

Mezzotint print of a recumbent lion resting on a grassy bank beside a pool, with a dark cave and trees behind.

The Lyon (Recumbent Lion by a Pool)

George Townley Stubbs, August 12, 1776

Mezzotint of the mythological Phaeton driving a chariot pulled by four galloping horses through clouds.

Phaeton

Benjamin Green, November 14, 1776

Dark allegorical print: two seated women watch a glowing vision of armored warriors and tigers, lit by a winged figure with a

The Tea-Tax-Tempest (The Oracle)

John Dixon, 1774

Mezzotint of a woman in a striped shawl and turban raising her arm beside a column, with two children and rising smoke behind

Mrs. Yates in the Characer of Medea

William Dickinson, 1771

Engraving of a gentleman handing a letter to a young woman in an interior, with a dog and a companion, above French text.

Young Lady's Reply to the Captain's Letter

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Hand-colored print of young women and orphaned children gathered in a cottage room with a fireplace and drop-leaf table.

The Sailor's Orphans, or the Young Ladies' Subscription

William Ward, June 1, 1800

Three schoolboys offer charity to a seated blind man with a dog beside a brick wall, with a countryside view.

Schoolboys Giving Charity to a Blind Man

John Raphael Smith, 1781

Engraving of elegant figures on an arcaded terrace with a fruit basket, a cherub, and a garden view, labeled LA TERRE.

Earth

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1648

Engraved interior with a seated man, a woman beside a birdcage, a Cupid with bow, and a statue in a niche.

Air

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1648

Engraving of a plumed captain holding a letter beside a young servant in a room, with a French text panel below.

Captain's Love Letter

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Etching of a fashionably dressed man seen from behind, leaning on a long mallet in a park with trees and figures.

A Man Seen from the Back Leaning on a Croquet Mallet (Le Jouer de mail)

Abraham Bosse, 1629

Engraved portrait of an armored bearded man in an oval frame flanked by allegorical figures and a battle scene below.

Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France

Jost Amman, 1550-91

Engraving of St. Jerome reading beside a resting lion under a large tree, with a distant town and church in the background.

St. Jerome in the Wilderness

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Etching of Venus standing in a chariot pulled by sea creatures, with nude attendants, cherubs in the sky and a distant mounta

Venus on a Chariot

Pierre Brébiette, 1640-49

Engraving of a crowded 1785 salon gallery with paintings covering the walls and visitors in period dress on the floor.

View of the Salon of 1785

Pietro Antonio Martini, 1785

Engraving of a gnarled oak forest with a hunter aiming a rifle from a rock at lower right.

A Forest with a Rabbit Hunt

Aegidius Sadeler, n.d.

Mezzotint of a man in the sea beneath a billowing balloon with rigging lines, under a stormy sky with a crescent moon.

The Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the C…

John Murphy, June 24, 1789

Etching of a wooded landscape with a grassy clearing and several rabbits in the foreground beneath dark trees.

Combe Bottom

Francis Seymour Haden, 1860

Engraved title page with a central drape bearing the Topographia Variarum Regionum text, flanked by allegorical figures and a

Topographia Variarum Regionum, title to the series of 28 plates

Simon Frisius, 1614

Engraved title page with a central cartouche flanked by a laurel-crowned man and a spear-holding woman, with an eagle and dog

Title to Topographia Variarum Regionum

Simon Frisius, 1611

Pencil elevation drawing of a Gothic side chapel with pointed arches, tracery windows and a paneled lower screen.

Design for a Side Chapel in the Gothic Style, for Adelmorn the Outlaw

John Joseph Holland, 1802

Engraving of Apollo grasping Daphne as she turns into a laurel tree, with a river god pouring water below.

Apollo and Daphne

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of winged Cupid wrestling the goat-legged Pan on rocks, with a seated woman watching in the background.

Battle of Love and Pan

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of blindfolded Cupid riding an eagle inside an oval medallion within a decorative rectangular frame.

Cupid Astride an Eagle

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of blindfolded winged Cupid seated on a sphere, holding a torch and arrow, inside an oval medallion with a Latin ti

Triumphant Cupid

Jean Michel Liotard, 1715-96

Engraving of two women and a girl building a card house at a table, with a spaniel and scattered cards on the floor.

House of Cards

Jean Michel Liotard, 1744

Engraving of women in a richly furnished interior, some sleeping beside a fireplace, with framed paintings on the walls.

Foolish Virgins Sleeping (Les Vierges folles sommolent en attendant l'arrivée de l'époux)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1635

Engraving of a seated man in an interior giving clothing to a ragged family approaching from the right, with verses below.

Clothing Beggars (Vêtir les nus)