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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of fighting warriors and figures in various poses, marked with the number 36.

Sheet of Sketches, including Two Warriors Fighting

Pencil sketch of several draped, hooded figures on pale paper, with faint architectural studies at upper right.

Sketches with a Hooded Figure (Virgil and Beatrice?)

Pencil sketch sheet with a man battling a centaur and smaller studies of a horse and figures.

Sheet of Studies, including a Man Battling a Centaur

Pen and wash drawing of a neoclassical sideboard with winged figures, a laurel wreath, a horse-relief shield and urns.

Study for Decorations of Buckingham Palace

John Flaxman, 1820/1826

Pencil sketch sheet with several studies of classical funerary monuments, niches, relief figures and a sarcophagus.

Studies for a Monument

Pen sketch of robed women, an armored knight, a striding figure and a small crouching figure on pale paper.

Study for Pilgrim's Progress (?)

Pencil design sketch of a Gothic monument with a central shield and two standing draped figures flanking it.

Design for the Simcoe Monument, Exeter Cathedral

John Flaxman, c. 1814

Pencil sketch sheet with several studies of kneeling and seated women in loose contour lines and handwritten notes.

Studies of Women Kneeling

Pen and ink sketch of a central seated figure surrounded by reclining figures, with smaller figure studies below.

Study of Neptune and Sea Creatures (?)

Pencil sketch of a draped classical figure with raised arm above a stepped stone base, faint architectural outlines behind.

Two Greek Classical Figures

John Flaxman, in or after 1797

Lithograph of a rider and a horse team pulling a covered wagon up a snowy road toward a village with a church spire.

Wagoner Climbing a Hill (Roulier montant une cote)

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Engraving of two apprentices fighting in a vaulted workshop with an anvil, tools, and a forge fire.

Two Apprentices Fighting

Jean de Gourmont

Etching of a windswept hillside with bent trees, a dead tree at right, and billowing clouds above.

Dragons

Etching of windswept trees with twisted branches under a stormy sky over an open landscape.

El Toro

Sepia engraving of stone lime kilns on a rocky shore with a sailboat on calm water and hills in the distance.

Lime Kilns, View in Cumberland

John Hassell, 1803

Engraved 1644 map of England with compass rose, ships, royal portrait medallions border and shire catalogue table.

A New and Exact Mappe of England

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644

Lithograph of a cobbled village street with a church spire, stone houses, carts and logs, and steep mountains behind.

Entrée du village des Bains

Eugène Isabey and Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri, 1831

Horizontal engraved frieze with leafy scrolls, winged putti, serpents, and two nude figures at the center.

Frieze of Ornament

Johann Ladenspelder

Engraving of helmeted Bellona seated on a shield beside piled armor, spear and trophies, within a curved lunette frame.

Bellona Seated on Her Trophies

Léon Davent after Francesco Primaticcio

Engraving of the god Mars reclining in plumed helmet beside shield, sword, spear, and armor within a curved lunette frame.

Mars Seated on Trophies

Léon Davent after Francesco Primaticcio

Engraving of the Annunciation: a winged angel on clouds approaches a seated haloed woman beneath classical arches.

The Annunciation

Henri Mauperché

Engraving of two women embracing before a classical arcade with Corinthian columns, a landscape and clouds beyond.

Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth

Henri Mauperché

Engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds beneath ruined classical arches, with a palm tree and a horse beside a stone stai

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Henri Mauperché

Etching of the Virgin and Child on a grand staircase, with a kneeling visitor, soldiers, and classical colonnades.

The Adoration of the Kings

Henri Mauperché

Engraving of the Presentation in the Temple: a classical temple with columns and balustrades, haloed figures in the foregroun

Presentation in the Temple

Henri Mauperché

Etching of the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt on a donkey with angels, set in a wooded landscape with a stone bridge.

The Flight into Egypt

Henri Mauperché

Engraving of a forest pool with twisted trees, fleeing deer and a distant hunter.

Stag Hunt near a Pool

Aegidius Sadeler II after Roelandt Savery

Etching of a shepherd in a cap and long coat watching a flock of sheep move along a grassy hillside beside a tree.

Shepherd with Flock

Ferdinand Schmutzer

Etching of women in hats and fur stoles seated at a luncheon table, with a standing man behind them in a dim room.

A Luncheon Party

Sydney Vacher, 1920/1922

Lithograph of a Cossack horseman with a lance attacking wounded soldiers beside a cart on a wooded mountain road.

Wounded French Attacked by a Cosack

Horace Vernet and Hippolyte Lecomte, 1817