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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Etching of passengers disembarking onto a rain-soaked pier beside a ship, under a stormy sky with birds and a flag.

Un Débarquement en Angleterre (Landing in England)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1879

Engraving of the Virgin and Christ Child in a rocky grotto with cherubs and two bearded figures in the foreground.

The Adoration of the Magi (Virgin in the Grotto)

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, c. 1500

Two Peasants

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, 1490s

Engraving of a bearded man in plumed cap and fluted armor holding a staff, with an Italian inscription at upper left.

"El Gran Capitanio"

Unknown artist, c. 1516/1520

Portrait of Petrarch

Unknown artist, first half 16th century

Engraving of Saint Jerome reading in his study with a lion at his feet, books and a crucifix around him.

Saint Jerome in His Study

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, c. 1510

Engraving of Saint Jerome kneeling in penitence beside a lion, with a crucifix and distant city in a rocky landscape.

Saint Jerome in Penitence

Unknown artist, c. 1500/1515

Engraving of Saint Jerome with halo beside a skull, lion, and open book, set among ruined arches and a distant town.

Saint Jerome

Unknown artist, c. 1510

Engraved ornament design of a large goblet with a female face, scrollwork, two birds on the stem, and a masked base.

Ornament - Large Goblet

Unknown artist

Engraving of draped women with water jugs and a young man drinking beside a wooden pergola and trees.

Young Man Drinking Water (Rebecca and Eliezer?)

after Francesco Primaticcio Anonymous

Print of a bearded older man in a draped hood, with a shadowy creature's face at the left edge, against a dark background.

Saint Mark

Jodocus Bickart, 1660-1684

Etching of a bearded elderly man in a turban seated at a table with a globe, books and candle in a dim interior.

The Astrologer

Engraved portrait of a bearded man with curly hair in a stepped frame, with a coat of arms and the name Lucas Cranach below.

Lucas Cranach

Johann Martin Bernigeroth, 1761

Woodcut of a haloed man receiving a coin from a figure in a fur-trimmed robe, with onlookers in an arched interior.

The Tribute Money

Lucas van Leyden, c. 1523

Grey-toned drawing of the Pentecost, with the Virgin Mary and apostles in prayer beneath a radiant dove of the Holy Spirit.

Pentecost [recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Grey wash drawing of a kneeling woman reaching toward a man in a plumed hat beside a fence under a stormy sky.

Noli Me Tangere [verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Grey wash drawing of a bearded man seated among lions in an arched hall, with skulls and bones on the floor.

Daniel in the Lions' Den [recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Engraved interior with a man reading at a tea table, a standing woman, and a seated young woman beside a window.

Canto IV, Verse 328

William Blake after Mary Ann Flaxman, 1803

Pencil sketch of ghostly figures near a tomb under a crescent moon, with loose, unfinished lines on tan paper.

A Resurrection Scene (The Gambols of Ghosts) [recto]

William Blake, 1805/1808

Etching of a busy London street with carriages, pedestrians, awninged buildings, and a distant clock tower.

St James's Street

James McNeill Whistler, 1878

Playing card with black outlined flowers on a branching stem, printed in dark ink with brown flower centers.

Playing Card

Unknown artist, second half 15th century

Engraving of a bearded God enthroned in light, with angels and a figure before him, and a biblical scene below.

Satan Before the Throne of God

William Blake, 1825

Engraving of a nude man with raised arms standing over a river, with pyramids, a crocodile, and a sun in the sky.

Fertilization of Egypt

William Blake after Henry Fuseli, 1791

Engraved full-length portrait of an armed man with a musket and pipe, with palm trees and figures in the background.

A Coromantyn Free Negro, or Ranger, armed

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, 1793

Engraving of a naked man hanging upside down by a chain from a gallows, with skulls and bones on the ground below.

A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, 1792

Engraved print of a standing marine private holding a musket with bayonet, with a fort and ship in the background.

A private Marine of Col. Fourgeoud's Corps

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, 1793

Engraving of monkeys climbing and leaping among tree branches and vines beside a river with a mountain in the distance.

The Mecoo & Kisbee Kishee Monkeys

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, 1793

Engraving of a group of enslaved people dancing on a shore while a European man with a stick directs them, ship masts behind.

Group of Negros, as imported to be sold for Slaves

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, 1793

Etching of impaled skulls on poles in a field with soldiers, one kneeling and one leaning on a musket at right.

The Sculls of Lieut Leppar, & Six of his Men

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, 1793

Engraving of a bound female figure hanging from a tree while men with a whip stand on grassy ground below.

Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, 1793