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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Etching in three panels showing stilt walkers, witches on broomsticks, strollers under trees, a rooster, a horse and sketched

Imaginations

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1800

Two etched scenes: a man in a canopied bed attended by a woman, and a group strolling under trees with a child.

Illustrations to La Fontaine

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1799/1800

Wood engraving of Austro-Prussian horsemen and a cannon entering a city gate as a crowd of townspeople gathers and cheers.

Les troupes Austro-Prussiennes entrant a Hambourg ... [top half]

Charles Maurand after Godefroy Durand, published 1864

Engraving of passengers seated and standing inside an omnibus, with a woman holding a baby and men in top hats.

Interieur d'un omnibus [bottom half]

Charles Maurand after Honoré Daumier, published 1864

Four sullen men in top hats and heavy coats crowd a railway carriage, one gazing out a window at a snowy view.

Train de plaisir

Charles Maurand after Honoré Daumier, 1862

Pen and wash drawing of a woodland pond with tall trees, a seated fisherman at the water's edge, and birds in the sky.

Woodland Pond with a Fisherman

Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, c. 1617

Pen and brown ink drawing of a large tree over a path, with a tent and sleeping figures at lower left and hills beyond.

Landscape with Sleeping Peasants

Jacob de Gheyn II, c. 1605

Pencil sketch of a seated woman working at a lace-making frame with a spoked wheel, with a handwritten note beside her.

Venetian Lace Making

William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916

Pencil sketch of a weathered shack, rowboats and a pole on a sandy shore, with sailboats on distant water.

Fishing Boats and Shack

Pencil and chalk drawing of a rocky Maine coast with breaking waves, cliffs, and evergreen trees under a pale sky.

Maine Coast

Aaron Draper Shattuck, 1861

Engraving on blue paper of a chariot in the clouds above draped women and a tall arched tower in a classical landscape.

An Omen of Augustus's Future Greatness

after Giulio Romano Giulio Bonasone, 1531-1576

Etching of a wooded landscape with two travelers on a path, a river, distant mountains and clouds.

Landscape with Travelers

Engraved nocturnal landscape with fishermen in boats, stone bridges, and a distant city with towers.

Nocturnal Landscape with River Fishermen outside City Walls

Aegidius Sadeler II after Pieter Stevens

Dark etching of cows at a pond beneath willow trees, with light breaking through clouds and reflecting in the water.

Cows at a Watering Place (Vaches a l'abreuvoir)

Charles-François Daubigny, 1862

Pen and blue wash drawing of a summer harvest with workers, an oxcart, a farmhouse and a distant town.

Summer Harvest in an Extensive Landscape

Lodewyk Toeput, c. 1590

Colored lithograph program for Mirages showing audience backs, stage performers, and orchestra musicians beside a printed cas

Mirages

Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1893

Lithograph of a man and a veiled woman on horseback crossing a stream below rocky cliffs and mountains.

Man and Veiled Woman on Horseback

Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskii, 1820

Lithograph of a coachman driving a three-horse sleigh at speed through a snowy village landscape with a church dome.

A Hired Coachman in Winter

Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskii, 1820

Lithograph of a horse cart loaded with firewood, a porter seated on top, and men talking on a cobbled street.

Russian Porter Carrying Wood on a Cart

Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskii, 1820

Lithograph of a bearded driver leading a horse-drawn sled of flour sacks through a snowy street by a brick building.

Sled Loaded with Flour Led by an Isvoschik

Aleksandr Osipovich Orlovskii, 1820

Graphite and white chalk drapery study on grey paper showing soft folds of cloth in light and shadow.

Drapery Study for "Mary and Elizabeth Royall"

John Singleton Copley, c. 1758

Grey chalk study of a crowded interior with robed men gathered around a seated figure beneath a draped canopy.

Study for "The Death of the Earl of Chatham"

John Singleton Copley, 1779

Drawing of a stormy rural landscape with a thatched farmhouse, church steeple, scattering cattle and wind-bent trees.

A Stormy Landscape

Marco Ricci, c. 1725

Watercolor of the Bay of Naples with a city on the left, a sailboat, and Mount Vesuvius smoking on the right.

The Bay of Naples with Mounts Vesuvius and Somma

Giovanni Battista Lusieri, 1782

Sepia drawing of the Seine with Notre Dame towers behind an arched bridge, riverside houses, and a moored barge in the foregr

View of Pont de la Tournelle and Notre Dame Taken from the Arsnel: pl.11

Thomas Girtin, published 1802

Sepia-toned panoramic view of a river with boats, a columned temple, a tower building, and a seated figure on the embankment.

View of the Village of Chaillot from the Pont de la Concorde: pl.17

Thomas Girtin, published 1802

Engraved title page with Latin text in a central panel, surrounded by allegorical figures, tools, instruments and fruit.

Title Page

Adriaen Collaert, 1585

Engraving of the Nativity beside the Flight into Egypt in a bare winter landscape with an angel above and a town beyond.

The Nativity and the Flight into Egypt (Aquarius)

Adriaen Collaert, 1585

Pencil sketch of a figure leading an ox cart across a flat field, with trees at right and a distant village and sailboat at l

L'Ile aux Moines with Figure and Cart

Eugène-Louis Boudin, c. 1858

Engraving of a haloed figure calling fishermen from boats in a harbor town with towers, while fish fly in the sky above.

Christ Calling Peter and Andrew (Pisces)

Adriaen Collaert, 1585