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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Etching of a coastal landscape with large trees, cattle, a group of women, classical ruins, and sailing ships on the water.

Europa and the Bull (L'enlèvement d'Europe)

Claude Lorrain, 1634

Pen-and-ink print of a castle courtyard with a brick tower, wooden staircase, trees and rooftops beyond the walls.

Courtyard of a Castle

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1546

Etching of a river landscape with sailing boats, a castle on a rocky cliff, and a distant walled town.

Landscape with Sail Boats

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1546

Hand-colored print of Thun from the south, showing a castle, church spires, river, wooden footbridge and walking figures.

Vue de Thun du Cote du Midi

Jean François Janinet, probably 1776

Etched landscape of tall trees, travelers on a path, and a distant town with a church tower under clouds.

Landscape with Horseman and Three Travelers

Brown lithograph of three loosely sketched heads: a woman in a dark hat, a figure in a cap, and a young girl with bare should

Stone with Three Sketches (La pierre au trois croquis)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1904

Hand-coloured print of an inn courtyard in chaos, with people fleeing a fire, horses rearing, and pigs scattering.

The Inn Yard on Fire

Thomas Rowlandson, 1791

Hand-colored print of a bedroom scene with a seated man, a woman pulling on a stocking, and a woman in bed.

Four o'Clock in Town

Thomas Rowlandson, 1788

Colored caricature of men at a dining table dismayed as a servant spills a dish across the floor beside a dog.

The Disappointed Epicures

Thomas Rowlandson, 1787

Hand-colored 1789 print of a vaulted tavern cellar with a woman in a white hat, men smoking and drinking, and a dog.

Grog on Board

Thomas Rowlandson, 1789

Hand-colored print of men brawling and gambling around a round table, with raised chairs, pistols, and scattered coins.

A Kick-up at a Hazard Table

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1787

Hand-colored print of a busy market square with stepped-gable houses, horse carts, stalls and a tall column with a statue.

Place de Meir at Antwerp

Thomas Rowlandson, 1797

Hand-colored etching of spectators watching monkeys in a tower room with a fireplace, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1799.

The Monkey Room in the Tower

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1799

Hand-colored print of a crowded street market with a mountebank on a stage, cooking vendors, a couple embracing, and a dog.

Dr. Botherum, the Mountebank

Thomas Rowlandson, 1800

Colored print of an alchemist and assistant at a furnace in a cluttered laboratory, with a couple embracing in the doorway.

Hocus Pocus, or Searching for the Philosopher's Stone

Thomas Rowlandson, 1800

Hand-colored caricature of a skeleton rider trampling merchants with food goods, beside a statue and a devil, 1800.

Downfall of Monopoly in 1800

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1800

Hand-colored print of a terrified lawyer in wig fleeing skeletons on horseback past a Road to Hell signpost.

The Lawyers Last Circuit

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1802

Hand-colored etching of people tumbling and scrambling down a grassy hill beneath a tree in Greenwich Park.

One Tree Hill, Greenwich Park

Thomas Rowlandson, 1802

Sepia print of a horse race with jockeys galloping past crowds, carriages, and picnicking spectators on a rolling landscape.

Running

John Bluck after Thomas Rowlandson, published 1804

Colored sketch of fashionable women and attendants in a dressing room, with a feathered headdress and a mirror.

Dressing for a Birthday

Thomas Rowlandson, 1788

Colored sketch of carts racing down a village street, with figures thrown from overturned carts and onlookers at an inn.

A Cart Race

Thomas Rowlandson, 1788

Hand-colored sketch of a grey racehorse and jockeys racing past a crowd of spectators, carriages, and running dogs.

The High-mettled Racer

Thomas Rowlandson, 1789

Colored sketch of jockeys and grooms leading horses across a racecourse under a pale sky with clouds.

The Course

Thomas Rowlandson, probably 1789

Colored print of a stampeding ox scattering a crowd on a bridge near a church tower and sailing ships.

The Overdrove Ox

Thomas Rowlandson, 1787

Hand-colored print of dancers performing on a stage before a crowded tiered theatre filled with spectators in period dress.

The Prospect before us, No. 2

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1791

Hand-colored 1791 caricature of two kneeling men aiming pistols at each other at close range in a sawpit.

Slugs in a Sawpit

Thomas Rowlandson, 1791

Hand-colored print of men watching two fencers duel in a crowded academy hall with framed portraits on the walls.

Mr. H. Angelo's Fencing Academy

after Thomas Rowlandson, 1887

Hand-colored print of a crowd scattering in panic as a storm hits a street, with a carriage, horses, umbrellas and flying hat

A Squall in Hyde Park

Thomas Rowlandson, 1791

Hand-colored print of two seated women in 1790s bonnets and dresses, one holding a fan, by Thomas Rowlandson.

Beauties

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1792

Hand-colored caricature of a crowded 18th-century dinner table with wigged diners, a servant, and a framed view of Versailles

La Table d'Hote

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1792