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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Etching of a stone bridge over a river with a ruined arch, travelers with a dog, and a statue on a rock at right.

Landscape with a Bridge and Ruined Tower

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1744

Handwritten satirical notice about soap prices with a watercolor sketch of a hand pinching a nose above the text.

"Expected--alarming rise in the price of soap!"

George Cruikshank

Etching of two tritons with fish tails fighting, one wielding a club, while a third swims below and birds fly overhead.

Battling Tritons

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1763

Etching of a satyr family at night: a nude woman with a goat, a satyr peering over a fence, children, and a campfire under a

The Satyr's Family

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Etching of gnarled leafless trees and shrubs beside a waterway, with a distant tree-lined bank and open sky.

Herd of Sheep near the Hague

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1621

Etching of a row of gnarled trees behind wooden fences, with a small figure carrying a bundle walking on a path at left.

Two Plank Hedges

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1621

Etched title plate with Dutch inscription in a cartouche, flanked by a seated man and woman in rural dress, 1621.

Title Plate

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1621

Etching of a ruined stone tower with arched windows and overgrown walls, with a small seated figure in the foreground.

Ruined Tower Right of Center

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1621

Etching of two crumbling brick ruins with empty windows under a hatched sky, with a small figure walking at lower left.

Two Ruins (Huys te Kleef near Haarlem)

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1621

Etching of a dirt road curving past tall trees and a hedge, with a small cart and distant hills under an open sky.

Road at the Edge of the Forest

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1621

Etching of windswept trees, a thatched farmhouse behind hedges, and a small figure walking a rural path.

The Sower

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1621

Etching of a stepped-gable brick house behind shrubs and bare trees, with a path and hedge in the foreground.

The House with the Stepped Gable

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, 1621

Brown wash drawing of costumed figures visiting a barred window beside brick steps, with a seated man and a dog in front.

The Prison Visit

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1797

Brown wash drawing of masked Punchinello figures with torches, a woman and a dog, with a gondola and domed church on a Veneti

Punchinello's Farewell to Venice

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1798

A Bull on a Ledge

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of three Punchinello figures hunting waterfowl on a pond with dogs and trees.

Punchinellos Hunting Waterfowl

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1800

Brown wash drawing of God the Father and angels above a seated hooded woman with a child, on clouds.

God the Father and Angels Adoring the Madonna and Child [recto]

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1753

Watercolor of a Romanesque cathedral with rose window and tall bell tower, a crowd in a piazza, and ships in harbor.

The Cathedral at Trani

Louis Jean Desprez, 1778

Brown ink drawing of a fortified stone bridge and tower beside a river, with a tall craggy mountain behind.

Fortified Bridge against Distant Mountains

the elder Palmieri Pietro, 1760

Brown ink landscape of two cattle and a goat by a cliff, with a resting shepherd in the foreground and a distant town.

Landscape with Cattle, a Goat, and a Resting Shepherd

the elder Palmieri Pietro, 1774

Engraved frontispiece portrait of a man in lace collar, surrounded by a laurel wreath and cherubs with painter's tools.

Capricci di varie battaglie (Frontispiece)

Johann Wilhelm Baur, 1635

Etched title page with a trumpeter on horseback, a cannon, banners and armor framing a cartouche reading Capricci di varie ba

Capricci di varie battaglie (Title Page)

Johann Wilhelm Baur, 1635

Etching of turbaned mounted archers and lancers fighting in a cavalry skirmish, with a fallen warrior and scattered weapons b

Capricci di varie battaglie

Johann Wilhelm Baur, 1635

Engraving of five winged cupids playing, one riding a goat pulled by rope, others in a grassy landscape.

Five Cupids Playing

Master F.B., c. 1475/1500

Hand-colored print of Alps and glaciers seen over a castle, fountain garden, fields and village under a pale sky.

Vue generale des Alpes et Glaciers

Charles-Melchior Descourtis

Hand-colored print of a lake with a turreted castle on an island, mountains behind, boats and strolling figures in the foregr

Vue de Schadau

Charles-Melchior Descourtis

Etching of a busy canal town with arcaded buildings, boats, a carriage, horseback riders and people in the square.

Mestre

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1735

Etching of a market by a canal with stalls, merchants, barrels, a classical colonnade, a large palazzo and a hill.

The Market at Dolo

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1735

Engraving of the Judgment of Solomon: a seated king, a soldier, a kneeling mother, an infant, and a crowd in a classical hall

The Judgment of Solomon

Jean Duvet, probably c. 1516

Etching of a landscape with large trees, resting goats, a goatherd, a stone bridge and a hilltop village with a tower.

The Goatherd (Le chevrier)

Claude Lorrain, 1663