The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hand-colored print of a crowded Paris street with fashionable figures before a print shop window displaying prints and books.

Hand-colored print of a crowded Paris street before the Martinet Libraire bookshop, with figures in period dress and a tray v

Engraving of a draped female figure standing in a niche, one arm resting on a ledge, holding an object.

Engraving of Diana the huntress with bow and arrow, standing in a niche with two dogs at her feet.

Engraving of a standing woman with a crescent moon on her head, holding fruit, framed in an arched niche.

Engraving of a vulture attacking a reclining man, with two women and a flying Cupid, inside an ornate decorative frame.

Engraving of two women and a cupid under a tree, framed by an ornate decorative border with figures and a mask.

Engraving of a mythological scene: nude figures at a forge, a draped woman pointing, a reclining figure above, in an ornate f

Engraving of Juno nursing an infant beside an older woman, with an armored warrior holding a spear, within an ornate decorati

Engraving of a woman in labor on a bed, attended by women and a newborn, framed by putti and a decorative cartouche.

Engraving of seated Juno with a halo confronting three serpent-haired Furies, inside an ornate architectural frame with cheru

Engraving of Juno and a nude figure beneath a tree, within an ornate frame with female figures and an Italian verse below.

Engraving of Vulcan at an anvil in a forge with gods making a chain, framed by ornate female figures and swans.

Engraved profile portrait of an elderly bearded man facing left, framed with a Latin inscription cartouche and a cherub below

Engraved portrait of a man in profile facing right, wearing a fur collar, ruff, and embroidered doublet, with Latin inscripti

Pen and wash sketch of an ornate urn on a scrolled pedestal before a draped curtain, with red chalk underdrawing.

Circular watercolor of an obelisk, city walls, palm trees and ships on a bay, with a figure in pink in the foreground.

Hand-colored caricature print comparing seated Englishmen and animated Frenchmen in November, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1788.

Hand-colored print of a crowded theater lobby with fashionable men and women in period dress beneath a playbill and wall lamp

Engraving of bearded Father Time seated at right, with three nude boys, a scythe, and an eagle on ruins at left.

Engraving of Mercury offering panpipes to Minerva, who holds a spear, in an oval composition by Giulio Bonasone.

Engraving of helmeted Minerva among draped women, a seated figure with a lyre, and a reclining figure on steps.

Engraved portrait of Pope Marcellus II in papal tiara and vestments, right hand raised, with saints on his stole.

Engraved bust portrait of a bearded man in a high collar, turned three-quarters, with a Latin inscription below.

Engraved ornamental frieze with a bearded man, nude youth, winged monster, and eagle among acanthus scrolls.

Watercolor and ink drawing of men brawling around a gaming table, one raising a broken chair above his head.

Caricature of a soldier in a plumed hat embraced by two women, one on each side, with a humorous verse below.

Two-part etching of theatre audiences, one laughing at a comedy and one weeping at a tragedy, in 18th-century dress.

Pen and wash drawing of a rider on a galloping horse with two hounds beside him, trees framing the scene.

Hand-colored satirical print of bewigged men in a hall beside a stout watchman with a lantern on a street.