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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,079 works

Watercolor panorama of a calm sea with a sailboat, low islands, distant mountains and sandy hills under a pale sky.

Panorama View on the Islands of Delos

Johann Michael Wittmer II, early 19th-late 19th century

Etching of a calm river lined with tall poplars and dark trees, with a small boat and distant hills under a pale sky.

The Charmers of the Age

James Sayers, May 30, 1786

Engraving of Cupid bound to a tree among many nude figures in an Elysian landscape, with a flying figure above.

Cupid in the Elysian Fields tied to a tree in the center, surrounded by many figures

Giulio Bonasone, 1563

Engraving of a young woman with a shepherd's staff and open book resting beside grazing sheep under oak trees.

St. Genevieve as a Young Girl

Claude Mellan, 1680

Engraving of a flayed male figure with visible muscles carrying a tree branch over his head against a hatched background.

Flayed man holding the branch of a tree

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1531-76

Hand-colored print of a lake with a stag at the shore, framed by autumn trees and a distant mountain.

Moosehead Lake, Maine

Currier & Ives, 1857-71

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

View of the Obelisk of Thutmosis III Seen from the Walls of Alexandria

Jan van Call, late 17th-early 18th century

Engraving of a footsoldier seen from behind with a plumed hat, sword and pike, in front of a bare tree, dated 1520.

Footsoldier in front of a Tree

Barthel Beham, mid-17th century

Etching of a hilly landscape with a village church, trees, and travelers with pack animals on a path.

La Terre, from The Elements

Reinier Nooms, 17th century

Woodcut of the Virgin and Child surrounded by winged angels, one lifting a crown, in a landscape with castle and mountains.

The Virgin and Child with Eight Angels in a Landscape

Hans Baldung Grien, 1511

Engraved page: children dance around a decorated Christmas tree in a parlor; above, people gather evergreens in a forest.

The Christmas Tree (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)

Winslow Homer, December 25, 1858

Engraving of a bearded man in a hat and cloak leaning against a tree in a forest, with a coat of arms beside him.

James Howell Standing in a Forest

Claude Mellan, 1641

Engraving of a man in a cloak and hat leaning on a tree in a forest, with a Latin inscription below.

James Howel Standing in a Forest

Claude Mellan, 1641

Daumier lithograph of two seated landscape painters at easels outdoors, one copying the other's canvas, with a hill and smoke

The landscape painters, the first copies nature, the second copies the first, from 'The artists,' published in Le Cha…

Honoré Daumier, May 12, 1865

Engraving of a storm-tossed sea around a rock bearing a book and Latin inscription, with two figures on shore and lightning a

Allegory Against the Pelagian Heresy (Allégorie contre l'hérésy pélagienne et armoires)

Claude Mellan, 17th century

Engraving of a plumed lansquenet soldier in puffed costume standing beside a tree trunk, with mountains behind him.

A Lansquenet Standing by a Tree

Sebald Beham, 1520

Engraving of three woodsmen felling trees in a forest clearing, with oxen and tree stumps in the background.

Banknote vignette showing woodsmen felling trees in a snowy forest

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1824-37

Engraved vignette of a couple in a field beside haymakers loading hay onto a horse-drawn cart, with cottages behind.

Banknote vignette with haymakers symbolizing rural industry

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1824-37

Etched riverside landscape with a bridge, buildings, a well, seated figures and a man with a wheelbarrow in the foreground.

River Bank with Factories in the Background

François Boucher, 1720-70

Engraving of a stone bridge over a stream beside a thatched cottage, framed by trees and wicker baskets at the water.

View of the Lavandieres Bridge at the Peasant House

Pierre Quentin Chedel, mid-18th century

Architectural elevation drawing of the Belmead mansion facades in Gothic Revival style, with pointed arches, towers, and chim

Belmead, Plantation Mansion for Philip St. George Cocke, Powhatan Co., Virginia (partial elevations of entrance facad…

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1846

Drawing of the Belmead plantation house with a Gothic tower and trees, above a labeled ground-floor plan.

Belmead, James River, Virginia (vignette of riverside elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1850

Pencil and watercolor architectural drawing of Belmead's south entrance facade with a west-east section below.

"Belmead", James River, Virginia: Entrance façade and west-east section (recto); North-south section and upper floorp…

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Printed architectural specification page for Belmead, Powhatan County, Virginia, for Philip St. George Cocke, with a list of

Specifications for "Belmead", James River, Virginia for Philip St. George Cocke

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Pen and ink drawing of Belmead, a Gothic Revival mansion with a central tower, above a floor plan with a carriage road.

"Belmead", James River, Virginia, Residence of Philip St. George Cocke (vignette of riverside elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Architectural section drawing of a two-storey library with a domed roof, columns, staircases and doorways, in pencil and ink.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Student Libraries (two sections)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1850-58

Pencil drawing of University of North Carolina buildings in perspective above a plan of the Chapel Hill town grounds.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (distant perspective and plan of grounds)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1850-58

Engraved landscape of a conical tower and thatched cottage beside a river with a stone bridge and poplar trees.

View of Tower near Blois

Pierre Quentin Chedel, mid 18th century

Etching of a round tower and ruins beside a river, with a woman and child, a fisher, and a wooden bridge.

Second View of Charenton near Paris

Peter Paul Benazech, mid to late 18th century

Etched landscape of a brick house, a wooden bridge over a stream, three figures and trees under cloudy sky.

A Landscape with a Home and Three Men on a Bridge

Johann Georg Hertel, 18th century