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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

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

Etching of a schoolmaster in a tall hat instructing three pupils at a table in a dim interior with a latticed window.

Village Schoolmaster with Three Pupils

Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1679

Engraving of a nude man and woman beside a ball, a flaming torch and dark conifers in a forest setting.

Man and Woman with a Ball

Marcantonio Raimondi possibly after Francesco Francia

Etching of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and dark cloak leaning on a stone balustrade against a shadowed background.

Ephraim Bonus

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1647

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 caricature of a wigged lawyer reading a document while a man in a tricorn hat gestures and talks to him.

Limbs of the Law

George Moutard Woodward, 1799

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 caricature print of a dense crowd of exaggerated faces in period hats and wigs behind a diagonal lattice.

Odd-Characters

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1801

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

Red leather book cover with gold border and crest, titled Caricatures, volume II.

Caricatures (volume II)

Thomas Rowlandson

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

Hand-colored drawing of a man in a blue coat and red hat pondering at a desk with a ledger, a woman seated by a window.

A Money Scrivener

Thomas Rowlandson, 1801

Colored print of a caricatured barber shop in 1789, with a barber woman, a shaved customer, and a wig maker at work.

A Penny Barber

Thomas Rowlandson, 1789

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 oval etching of an older man in a red coat holding a seated woman's hand, with a horse and tree behind them.

The Enamoured Sportsman

Thomas Rowlandson

Hand-colored print of four fashionable women at two windows of a brick building, with hats, curls and painted signage.

First and Second Floor

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1791

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

Caricature of a woman in a corset and feathered hat, with a man in blue clutching her laces, drawn in 1791.

A Little Tighter

Thomas Rowlandson, 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

Hand-colored caricature of bewigged lawyers in a cluttered court room, one gesturing while another reads a large document.

Botheration

Thomas Rowlandson, 1793

Hand-colored etching of a drowned man on a beach, with mourners kneeling beside him near an overturned boat and rocks.

Drown'd

after Thomas Rowlandson Elizabeth Howitt, c.1801-1815

Hand-colored print of a London street jam with carriages, a white horse, scaffolding workers, and shouting crowds.

Miseries of London

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1807

Print of a crowded circular cockpit with two fighting roosters surrounded by shouting men in top hats.

Royal Cock Pit

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1808

Hand-colored caricature of a kneeling doctor in a blue coat pleading before a standing woman in a veil beside medicine bottle

Doctor Gallipot placing his Fortune at the feet of his Mistress

Thomas Rowlandson, 1808

Hand-colored etching of crowded theatre boxes and galleries with caricatured spectators, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1809.

The Boxes

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1809

Hand-colored 1809 caricature of livestock facing men in top hats outside a cottage with a cattle life insurance sign.

Insurable Cattle

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1809

Hand-coloured print of a crowded boat of revelers waving handkerchiefs toward a large warship at sea.

Cattle Not Insurable

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1809

Hand-colored caricature of a red-coated officer glancing at a girl at a casement, with townswomen, a dog and a cottage garden

Dying for Love, or Captain Careless shot flying by a Girl of Fifteen, who Unexpectedly Popped her Head out of a Casement

Thomas Rowlandson, 1810

Hand-colored caricature of a chaotic rural smock race with running women, jostling men, a dog and tents on a hillside.

Rural Sports. Smock Racing

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1811

Hand-colored caricature of a comic cricket match with running players, cheering crowds, a tent, and a dog on an open field.

Rural Sports or a Cricket Match Extraordinary

Thomas Rowlandson, 1811

Hand-colored etching of a couple kissing among mummy cases, classical statues, masks and vases in a cluttered antiquities roo

Modern Antiques

Thomas Rowlandson, probably 1811

Hand-colored print of a scolding woman lowered into water on a ducking stool while a jeering crowd watches from above.

Ducking a Scold

Thomas Rowlandson, 1809

Hand-colored print of a crowded arena where two dogs fight as spectators in top hats shout and crowd the ring and rafters.

A Dog Fight

Thomas Rowlandson, 1811

Hand-colored print of three men fishing from a punt on a river, with a poling boatman, swans, a swimming dog and willow trees

Patience in a Punt

Thomas Rowlandson, 1811

Colored print of a crowded tavern with men arguing, smoking by a fireplace, a serving woman, dogs, and a wall clock.

Doctor Syntax, in the Middle of a Smoking HotPolitical Squabble, wishes to Wet his W histle

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1813

Hand-colored print of a crowded hall where spectators view reindeer, a sledge and tent before a painted snowy mountain backdr

Mr. Bullock's Exhibition of Laplanders

Thomas Rowlandson, 1822

Hand-colored caricature of a courtroom where a judge sentences Napoleon as monarchs, bishops and a devil look on.

Boney's Trial, Sentence, and Dying Speech

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1815

Woodcut of seated haloed Saint John holding a chalice, within columns, an arched niche and a grapevine border.

Saint John

Hans Springinklee, 1518

Hand-colored etching of a crowded Paris diligence coach with passengers and horses on a village street, with pigs in the road

Paris Diligence

Thomas Rowlandson, 1810

Pastel drawing of a ballet dancer seen from behind beside three studies of feet in slippers on green paper.

Dancer Seen from Behind and Three Studies of Feet

Edgar Degas, c. 1878

Charcoal and wash drawing of two lawyers in black robes and caps talking, with a courtroom crowd behind them.

Two Lawyers

Honoré Daumier

Engraving of a haloed eagle standing among curling ribbon scrolls within a circular frame, with monogram at bottom.

The Eagle of Saint John

Martin Schongauer, c. 1490

Etching of a river landscape with a willow tree, stone buildings, an arched bridge, a tower and a rocky hill.

River Landscape with Two Buildings

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1545

Great American Cock

William Home Lizars after John James Audubon, 1827

Hand-colored plate of two yellow-billed cuckoos on branches with leaves, fruit, and a swallowtail butterfly.

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

William Home Lizars after John James Audubon, 1827

Hand-colored print of a female wild turkey with several young chicks among grasses and wildflowers.

Great American Hen and Young

William Home Lizars after John James Audubon, 1827