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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Etching of a bull goring a fallen bullfighter in an arena while a matador with a cape and spectators look on.

La desgraciada muerte de Pepe Illo en la plaza de Madrid (The Unlucky Death of Pepe Illo in the Ring at Madrid)

Francisco Goya, in or before 1816

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

Ink and grey wash drawing of a robed bearded figure with arms raised, surrounded by reclining nude figures reaching upward.

Moses Staying the Plague (?) [recto]

William Blake, c. 1780/1785

Pen and ink drawing of three standing male figures, one bearded and robed, one with a raised arm, and one nude youth at right

"And Saul Said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with Thee" [recto]

William Blake, c. 1780/1785

Pen and grey wash drawing of several men seated in a circle around a central standing figure holding a cane.

Group of Men Seated in a Circle [recto]

William Blake, c. 1780/1785

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

Carved wooden printing block of a tropical landscape with a large tree, river, and several figures.

Mahana Atua (Day of the Gods) [recto]

Paul Gauguin, 1894

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

St James's Street

James McNeill Whistler, 1878

Etching of sailing ships and small boats moored in a calm harbor with waterfront sheds and smokestacks in the distance.

Sailing Ships in the Bassin Neuf at La Rochelle (Les Voiliers du Bassin Neuf, a La Rochelle)

Gustave Leheutre

Etching of a pale beach with small figures near the shore, a sailboat on calm water, and a distant town skyline.

Coast (La cote)

Gustave Leheutre

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 crowded London street on May Day with dancing revelers, a fiddler, shop signs and onlookers at windows.

May-Day in London

William Blake after Samuel Collings, 1784

Engraving of men in 18th-century dress confronting each other with swords in a tavern room, with onlookers and a fireplace.

The Discomfited Duellists

William Blake after Samuel Collings, 1784

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

Engraving of a planter in a wide-brimmed hat smoking a pipe while a servant woman pours a drink beside him.

A Surinam Planter in his Morning Dress

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, 1793

Engraving of armed men wading through a swamp past palms and vines, with a half-submerged figure at left.

March thro' a swamp or Marsh in Terra-firma

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman, 1793

John Caspar Lavater

William Blake, 1787/1801

Engraving of a woman holding a basket of fruit beside a seated man reading a book under a tree, with a lily at left.

Canto I, Verse 29

William Blake after Mary Ann Flaxman, 1803

Engraving of a kneeling woman in a long gown leaning on a table beside a mirror and oil lamp, with drapery behind her.

Canto II, Verse 471

William Blake after Mary Ann Flaxman, 1803

Engraving of a woman in a white gown praying before a cave with winged and serpentine figures, by William Blake after Maria F

Canto III, Verse 201

William Blake after Mary Ann Flaxman, 1803

Engraving of a woman in a bonnet asleep on a bed under dark draped curtains, with a canopy above her.

Canto V, Verse 43

William Blake after Mary Ann Flaxman, 1803

Engraving of a bearded man with a staff and a woman in a flowing gown in an arched hall with masked onlookers.

Canto VI, Verse 294

William Blake after Mary Ann Flaxman, 1803