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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Engraved battle scene of soldiers with flags and muskets on a hill, wounded men in foreground, ships and smoke in distance.

The Battle at Bunker's Hill (June 17, 1775)

Joseph Napoleon Gimbrede, 1840-77

Engraved view of Boston harbor with warships and smoke rising over burning Charles Town and troops on the hill.

View of the Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town, June 17, 1775

John Lodge, 1781-83

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 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)

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

Engraving of the dead Christ lying on a draped table while the Virgin sits behind him before rocky cliffs.

Pietà, Christ stretched out on a table in a landscape, the Virgin standing behind arms open

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraved landscape of a river with rocky shore, a large pine tree, rowboats, a sailboat, and hills beyond.

Weekhawken

Asher Brown Durand, 1833

Pencil drawing of Chepstow Castle ruins above cliffs, with figures in a rowing boat and a sailboat on the river Wye.

Chepstow Castle, Wales from the river Wye

Lilburne Hicks, 1830-60

Watercolor of a half-timbered Tudor style building beside railway tracks, with a steam train, gate keeper, and rolling hills.

Tudor Style Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing

John Connell Ogle, 1844-77

Watercolor of a half-timbered rural railway station with a tiled roof, veranda, passengers, tracks and a distant church spire

Victorian Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing

John Connell Ogle, 1844-77

Grayscale collage of cut engravings showing women, children, and rural family scenes on a tan mount.

Collage of printed elements centered on Women, Children, Family and Rural Life

Illman Brothers, 1862-63

Engraved collage of an elderly man and young woman reading at center, surrounded by rural scenes of children, animals and lan

Collage of printed elements centered on a Man and Young Woman Reading the Bible, surrounded by scenes from rural life

Illman Brothers, 1851-66

Etching of the Dioscuri horse tamers atop ruined Roman architecture, with a column and arches in the background.

Roman ruins with the horse tamers (Dioscuri) on the Quirinal Hill, plate 36 from "Discorsi Sopra L’Antichita di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder, 1730-60

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.

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

Combe Bottom

Francis Seymour Haden, 1860

Watercolor landscape of a hillside village above a bay, with dancing women and seated figures among trees in the foreground.

View of Vietri with Young Country Women Dancing for Shepherds in the Foreground

Joseph Anton Koch, 1800

Engraving of Saint Sebastian bound to a tree, pierced by arrows, with a small monogram on the trunk.

Saint Sebastian Tied to a Tree (reverse copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Engraving of Saint Sebastian bound to a tree with arrows piercing his body, with a monogram at right.

Saint Sebastian Tied to a Tree

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1501

Grey wash and ink drawing of an imagined garden with a tiered fountain, fluted urn, stone steps, and trees.

Venetian Capriccio: Landscape with a Farm Building, Sarcophagus, and Fountain (recto); Monument (verso)

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, n.d.

Etching of a canal with an angler, two swans, reeds, a meadow and a rocky hill with buildings in the distance.

Canal with an Angler and Two Swans

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Etching of a farmhouse among trees beside a river, with a cow drinking in the foreground and hills under a pale sky.

Landscape with a Cow Drinking

Rembrandt van Rijn

Etching of a rural landscape with a round haybarn, dense trees, a flock of sheep, and grazing cattle under an open sky.

Landscape with a Haybarn and a Flock of Sheep

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1652

Etching of cottages, a hay barn and trees beside a field with sheep and small figures on a path.

Cottages and a Hay Barn on the Diemerdijk with a Flock of Sheep

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1652

Etching of a rural landscape with thatched cottages, trees, a canal, and a milkman with pails on a road.

View of the Diemerdijk with a Milkman and Cottages ('Het Melkboertje')

Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1650

Etching of a ruined square tower on a hill above thatched cottages and a fence, with trees and open sky.

Landscape with a Square Tower

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Engraved magazine page with a woman in black and a child, a parsonage among trees, and columns of printed story text.

The Lady in Black, Meadowbrook Parsonage (from "The Mistress of the Parsonage," in "Harper's Weekly")

Winslow Homer, March 17, 1860

Engraving of two women with walking sticks beside a tall waterfall beneath a stratified rock overhang, with hikers far off.

Under the Falls, Catskill Mountains, from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVI

Winslow Homer, September 14, 1878

Wood engraving of two figures by moonlit sea shore above a meadow scene with reclining figures and ducks, Harper's Weekly, 18

Flirting on the Sea-Shore and on the Meadow (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, September 19, 1874

Wood engraving of onlookers on a rooftop in Boston watching smoke rise over the harbor during the Battle of Bunker Hill.

The Battle of Bunker Hill - Watching the Fight from Copp's Hill, in Boston (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIX)

Winslow Homer, 1875

Pencil drawing of a large tree with a dense leafy canopy, gnarled trunk, and exposed roots, dated 1832.

Study of a Tree; verso: Study of Houses

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, 1832