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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Painted plate of two wasps and a pill bug within a gold oval border, with red Latin inscription above.

Plate 71: Two Wasps and a Pill Bug

Joris Hoefnagel, c.1575/1590s

Worn red leather book cover with gold-stamped word TERRA, gilt border and brass corner clasps.

Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra)

Joris Hoefnagel, c. 1575/1590s

Red leather book cover with gold tooled border, brass corner clasps, and the gilt word AQVA at center.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva)

Joris Hoefnagel, c. 1575/1590s

Watercolor of numbered flatfish and other fish swimming on blue water inside a gold oval border, with Roman numeral XXXIII.

Plate 33: Sole and Other Flatfish with Bandfish(?)

Joris Hoefnagel, c.1575/1590s

Painting of doves and pigeons on a branch, beams and a tiled roof, with Latin inscriptions in an oval frame.

Plate 66: Doves and Pigeons

Joris Hoefnagel, c.1575/1590s

Red chalk drawing of a grand arched bridge with an equestrian statue, figures on the parapet, and soldiers and pavilions belo

Architectural Fantasy with a Triumphal Bridge

Hubert Robert, c. 1760

Watercolor of a rocky valley with a stone arched bridge over a river, cottages, autumn trees, and steep cliffs.

A View of Dovedale

John Glover, c. 1825

Etching of a busy street with a crowded fish shop under an awning, with figures and tenement windows above.

The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea

James McNeill Whistler, 1886

Etching of small plumed cavaliers on horseback, some fighting in pairs, scattered across a pale sheet of paper.

Fighting Cavaliers

Stefano Della Bella, 1652

Etching of twenty-four plumed cavaliers on horseback arranged in an oval, several holding swords, on a pale field.

Twenty-Four Cavaliers in an Oval

Stefano Della Bella, 1652

Etching of plumed cavaliers on prancing horses, paired in sword combat, arranged in four groups across the sheet.

Cavaliers Fighting with Swords

Stefano Della Bella, 1652

Pale watercolor of a leaning tree and ivy-covered trunk beside a wooden fence and green foliage.

Trees at Beddington

Robert Hills, possibly c. 1805

Red chalk drawing of elegant figures and a falconer gathered under a tree in an open landscape with distant hills.

A Fête Galante with Falconers

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1711-1712

Colored print of hunters on horseback and a pack of hounds gathering under a large tree in the morning.

Going Out in the Morning

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1786

Hand-colored print of a fox hunt: riders tumble from horses on a hillside while hounds race across the open landscape.

The Chase

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1787

Hand-colored print of hunters on horseback and hounds surrounding a fox beneath a large tree, one rider blowing a horn.

The Death of the Fox

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1786

Hand-colored print of men in period coats raising wine glasses at a rowdy dinner, with armor statues and dogs in the room.

The Dinner

Thomas Rowlandson, 1787

A Mastiff with a Gold-Tooled Collar

Brown wash drawing of ruined towers on rocks above a river valley with a distant castle and windblown trees.

Ruined Towers Overlooking the Rhine

Karl Bodmer, c. 1835

Pen and brown ink study sheet showing seven draped women in varied poses, standing and reclining, some holding urns.

The Attitudes of Lady Hamilton

Pietro Antonio Novelli, 1791

Brown ink sketch of horseback riders and a figure crossing a landscape with trees, a stream and a bridge.

Figures in a Landscape [recto]

Pen and brown ink sketch of a landscape with feathery trees, small figures in the foreground, and distant buildings.

Figures in a Landscape [verso]

Watercolor of a white horse pulling a cart of women and children through a stream past a cottage with trees.

Children in a Cart

Myles Birket Foster

Grey wash drawing of a lake framed by trees and cliffs, with a cottage on the shore and a rowing boat in the foreground.

View of Ullswater

Etching of three horses in a grassy field beside a tree, with a fence and distant building on the right.

Three Horses in a Field

Pieter van Laer, 1636

Watercolor of a country lane with a woman and child, grazing sheep, autumn trees and distant hills.

Way into Abergavenny from Llanfoist

Roberto Angelo Kittermaster Marshall

Watercolor of a sunlit country lane with sheep, a woman and child, and hedgerows opening onto distant rolling hills.

Squirrel Lane, near Magham Down, Sussex

Roberto Angelo Kittermaster Marshall

Pen and gray wash drawing of Aldenham Church with a tower, gravestones, trees, and a man with a dog.

Aldenham Church, Hertfordshire

Henry Monro, 1812

Watercolor of a spring hillside with blossoming trees, grazing sheep, a figure with a dog, and a hazy valley beyond.

Spring

Joseph Rubens Powell

Watercolor of a summer field with red poppies, a girl carrying flowers, a woman on a dirt path, and hills under a pale sky.

Summer

Joseph Rubens Powell