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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Watercolor plate of six stingrays and skates swimming over a blue sea, drawn from above, with Roman numeral XXIX.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXIX

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of four rays and flatfish swimming on blue water inside a gold oval border, numbered XXX.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXX

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Five flatfish swim over blue waves above a sandy seabed with shells, painted in watercolor on a numbered page.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXI

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor drawing of flatfish, a ray and shells on a sandy seafloor within an oval border, from a 1575 natural history plate

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of twelve numbered fish, mostly flatfish, swimming over blue water inside a gold oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXIII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Engraving of a crowded town square with a gallows and hanged figures, mounted soldiers, and spectators watching an execution.

Execution of the Gunpowder Conspirators

R. Romney, published 1795

Engraved print of an armored rider on a rearing horse, framed by grid of small town views and a title cartouche.

Hartoch Christian of Brunswick

Claes Janszoon Visscher II

Engraved interior with women grooming at a draped table with a mirror, a seated woman, a child, and a pastoral painting on th

Le desir de plaire

Louis Surugue, 1743

Engraving of a nude woman seated in a bath attended by women in elegant dress in an ornate eighteenth-century interior.

Les plaisir de l'ete

Louis Surugue, 1744

Engraved interior with a seated man, a woman at a tea table, a dog, and a standing man holding papers near columns.

Marriage a la Mode: pl. 2

Bernard Baron, 1745

Engraving of an 18th-century interior with a seated man, standing woman, older man in a wig, skull and scientific instruments

Marriage a la Mode: pl. 3

Bernard Baron, 1745

Hand-colored engraving of two woodpeckers on a tree trunk with green oak leaves and acorns, by Johann Michael Seligmann, 1743

The Red Bellied Woodpecker (Picus Carolinus)

Johann Michael Seligmann, 1743

Hand-colored 1743 engraving of a white tropicbird in flight, a brown seabird on a wave, and a long detached tail feather.

The Tropic Bird (Phaeton aethereus)

Johann Michael Seligmann, 1743

Woodcut print with a central Nativity scene, Passion panels above, kneeling worshippers and German text below.

The Nativity

Engraved print with portraits of King James I and Queen Anne of Denmark flanking a central royal family tree and coats of arm

James I and Anne of Denmark

Renold Elstrack, 1600/1602

Brown wash drawing of warriors in feathered headdresses dancing around a fire with raised tomahawks and tipis behind them.

The Scalp-Dance of the Sioux

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 1842

Pencil drawing of a woman in a patterned robe reclining beside a hookah and tea table in an ornate interior.

A Middle Eastern Woman Reclining in an Exotic Setting

Édouard de Beaumont, 1844

Pen and brown ink sketch of a hilltop town above a rocky ravine, framed by bare trees, with handwritten notes.

View of Ceriana

Edward Lear, 1870

Pen and brown ink drawing of jagged cliffs and crashing waves at Capo Sant'Angelo near Amalfi, Italy.

Capo Sant'Angelo, Amalfi

Edward Lear, 1885

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a mountain valley with a central peak and rocky foreground by Edward Lear, 1845.

Mountainous View from Antrodoco

Edward Lear, 1845

Sepia drawing of layered mountain ridges in the foreground rising to snow-capped peaks on the horizon under a pale sky.

Mount Kinchinjunga (All Things Fair)

Edward Lear, 1874

Pencil sketch of an umbrella pine with a wide canopy, plus a shrub study and small architectural fragments on paper.

Umbrella Pine and Other Studies

Edward Lear, 1839

Pencil sketch of a landscape with trees, a distant town, and small studies of figures carrying baskets below.

Sketches in Italy [recto]

Edward Lear, 1839

Pencil sketch of Villa Pamphili terraces with statues, balustrades, umbrella pines and distant hills under cloudy sky.

Villa Pamphili

Edward Lear, 1840

Pen sketch of a rocky desert valley with cliffs, mountains, a seated figure and camels, with handwritten notes.

Wady Mokatteb

Edward Lear, 1849

Ink and wash drawing of a tall tiered temple tower beside a water tank, with palm trees in the foreground.

Tanjore, India

Edward Lear, 1884

Pencil drawing of a cloister arcade with columns, arches, a wooden ceiling, and a palm tree in a garden.

The Cloister of Santa Maria di Gesù at Palermo

Anton Hallmann, 1835

Brown wash drawing of a man vaccinating an infant on a woman's lap while family members and dogs gather in a room.

The Vaccine

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1806

Crowd of 19th-century viewers in period dress gathered before a large ceremonial painting in a gallery interior, drawn in ink

The Public in the Salon of the Louvre, Viewing the Painting of the "Sacre"

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1808

Pencil and wash sketch of a tall tower by water, with a rowboat and figures in the foreground and a hazy distant skyline.

Tower Overlooking Water

William James Müller