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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,827 works

Etching of women and a man on a ship's gallery deck with scrolled railings, overlooking a harbor with masted ships.

The Gallery of H.M.S. Calcutta (Souvenir of a Ball on Shipboard) (La galerie du "Calcutta" (Souvenir d'un bal à bord)

James Tissot, 1876

Engraved caricature of a heavyset seated man surrounded by boots and objects, with ruins behind, from Harper's Weekly 1871.

"What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils" (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 15, p. 1097)

Thomas Nast, November 25, 1871

Hand-colored satirical print of a falling uniformed man balanced between Madrid and Moscow, with Fontainebleau palace below.

From Top to Bottom, or Cause and Effect (Du haut en bas...ou les causes et les effets)

Elie, April 1814

Pencil sketch of a gnarled tree with tangled bare branches and sprigs of leaves, dated 1833, on tan paper.

Study of a Tree Standing in Water in the Düsseldorf Hofgarten; verso: Studies of Plants

Johann Wilhelm Preyer, 1833

Watercolor of a castle on a rocky hilltop under stormy clouds, with riders on a meadow path and hills beyond.

Ruin of Burg Schachenstein at Thörl in Styria

Thomas Ender, mid-19th century

Pen and ink drawing of wooden cottages and sheds on a rocky hillside with bare trees.

Cottages in a Rocky Landscape

Wolfgang Huber, 16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome with a medieval tower and ruins in the foreground.

The Arch of Septimius Severus Seen from the East

Jan Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1594

Pencil sketch of a valley with trees, a thatched cottage, a wooden fence, and distant mountains and church.

Landscape with a View in a Valley

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded martyrdom scene with a central standing figure and sketched clouds above.

Martyrdom of Saint Gereon

Cornelis Schut, early 17th-mid 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of God pointing to Noah's family entering the ark, with angels and birds above a landscape.

God Summons Noah and His Family into the Ark

Joseph von Führich, 1827 (?)

Pencil study of a classical theater facade with arched windows, trees, pedestrians, and handwritten colour notes on paper.

Study of the Nationaltheater, Berlin

Eduard Gaertner, mid-19th century

Pencil portrait of a man in a cap and suspenders smoking a long pipe, with handwritten inscription below.

Portrait of Johann Anton Koch

Hieronymus Hess, ca. 1823

Graphite and white chalk study of a reclining nude man with a sketched kneeling woman above him, on tan paper.

A Nude Woman Kneeling at the side of a Reclining Man (Study for Mary Magdalen Lamenting Christ)

Julius Hübner, 1857

Pen and wash drawing of a woman at a spinning wheel with a hooded figure leaning in, in a timber-beamed interior.

Rumpelstiltskin Appearing to the Miller's Daughter

Gustav Heinrich Naecke, early 19th century

Drawing of the Entombment in a lunette shape, showing Christ on a shroud with mourners and a kneeling figure at the feet.

The Entombment

Philipp Veit, 1830

Hand-colored caricature print of a small imperial figure leaping a rope turned by two uniformed men, with French captions.

Imperial Jump-rope (Le Sauteur impérial, grand faiseur de tour)

Friedrich August Mottu, July 1815

Engraving of a woman and a man in a chinoiserie interior with a chair, lacquer cabinet, potted plant and garden view.

Chinese Man and Woman

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Engraving of two seated children beside a gnarled tree with a hanging fruit, titled Taste, numbered 4.

Taste

Chez Huquier, 18th century

Etching of a woman with a staff and a seated man examining an object under a woven canopy beside palm trees.

Woman Showing Curiosities to Soldier

Gabriel Huquier, ca. 1742

Engraved portrait of a standing man in embroidered formal dress with medals, leaning on a draped table beside an inkwell and

Portrait of Michel Louis Etienne, Comte Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angély

François Gérard, 1812

Engraving of a reclining nude woman on a white cloth in a forest clearing, with a distant sea and coastline at right.

Ariadne

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Engraving of a nude woman on a flower-strewn bed as a winged cupid holds a mirror above her against a starry sky.

Danaë

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1824

Engraved bust-length portrait of John M. Mason in a dark coat and white cravat against a shaded background.

John M. Mason, D.D. S.T.P. (1770-1829)

Asher Brown Durand, 1822

Engraved portrait of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, an elderly man with white hair in a dark coat, with signature below.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Asher Brown Durand, 1835

Engraved landscape of cascading waterfalls in a wooded valley, with a seated figure on a rock in the foreground.

The Falls of the Sawkill

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Engraved landscape of the Delaware Water Gap with a river between wooded hills, framing trees, and small figures on the bank.

Delaware Water Gap

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Engraved bust portrait of Hugh Williamson in dark coat and white cravat, with curtain and column behind him.

Hugh Williamson, M.D., L.L.D. (1735-1819)

Asher Brown Durand, 1821

Engraved print of a young man's head with curly hair and lowered eyes, shaded in a classical sculptural style.

Head of Young Man

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1826

Engraved frontispiece of three putti on clouds, with a French title block reading Cinquieme Livre de groupes d'enfans.

Frontispiece

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Etching of two chubby cupids on a cloud, one with feathered wings and one with bat wings, one holding an arrow.

Two Cupids, One with Bat Wings

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century