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National Gallery of Art

258 works

Charcoal drawing of three cats curled together in a tight cluster against a hatched background.

The Cats: Tsching, Batzar and Blanc-Blanc

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

Etching of a horse, buffalo, sheep and goat resting among rocks and a tree, with a distant mountain landscape.

A Horse, Buffalo, Sheep, and Goat in an Italian Landscape

Johann Elias Ridinger

Etching of a large grazing horse in the foreground, with a foal, sheep, and a farm in a flat landscape beneath clouds.

Grazing Horse

Adriaen van de Velde, c. 1657/1659

Etching of a Chelsea street with shopfronts, bird cages in windows, small pedestrians, and a horse and cart at right.

Bird-Cages Chelsea

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1886/1888

Wash drawing of Noah leading deer, goats, an ox and fowl toward an ark on the right, with a woman carrying an urn.

Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1645

Etching of two dogs fighting in an open landscape, one standing over the other, with a third dog sniffing the ground at left.

Fighting Dogs

Adriaen van de Velde, c. 1657/1659

Grid of twenty-five panels showing lions, tigers, elephants, camels, deer and other animals in silver on mauve paper.

Endpaper with Animals

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash of a cloaked figure leading a horse by its bridle on pale paper.

Figure Leading a Horse

Stefano Della Bella

Green block-printed sheet with rows of animals including an elephant, lions, deer, horses and dogs around a standing hunter.

Endpaper with Animals

Unknown artist, c. 1790/1850

Rust-red decorative paper with rows of gold birds including a peacock, turkey, owl and stork, plus a Nuremberg inscription.

Endpaper with Birds

Johann Georg Eckart

Studies of a Lion's Head

Stefano Della Bella

Printed sheet in olive-green ink on pink paper showing many birds in rows, including roosters, peacocks, herons and owls, wit

Endpaper with Birds

Unknown artist, c. 1780

Tan paper endpaper with rows of gilt-printed animals including lions, elephants, camels, zebras, and deer.

Endpaper with Animals

Georg M. Maisch, c. 1790

Engraved forest landscape with tall pines, fallen trunks, a marshy pool, small hunters with dogs, and light breaking through

Three Hunters and Two Dogs near a Pool

Aegidius Sadeler, 1609

Lithograph of a rider on a galloping horse beside a second horse in a brick-walled stable yard.

Horses Exercising

Théodore Géricault, 1821

Engraving of Hercules strangling a lion beside a tree, with a shield and club and a walled city in the background.

Hercules Killing the Nemean Lion

Sebald Beham, 1548

Engraved woodland scene with two hunters and a dog beside fallen trees, with a farmhouse on a rise in the distance.

Woodland Scene with Two Hunters and a Dog to the Left

Aegidius Sadeler, 1609

Hand-colored caricature lithograph: a man in a top hat gestures toward a seated ape in a hat beside a bald seated man.

Voyez, Mr. Mayeux, cet animal...

Honoré Daumier, 1836

Watercolor study of a weathered stone cat-head gargoyle with spiral eyes, broad nose, and textured cheek ruffs.

Cat Head Gargoyle

John Davis, 1932/1945

Pen and ink sketch sheet with several studies of horses in standing and walking poses, plus a head and a hoof detail.

Studies of Horses [recto]

Jacques Callot, 1612

Toy Horse

Mina Lowry, c. 1937

Painted study of a leaping white horse weather vane on a dark metal rod against a blue-gray background.

Horse Weather Vane

Henry Murphy, 1935/1942

Pen and brown ink sheet with multiple studies of horses in rearing, galloping and standing poses.

Studies of Horses [verso]

Jacques Callot, 1612

Two Ornamental Bands with Head of a Lion and Woman

Stefano Della Bella, probably 1648

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-colored 1743 engraving of a white tropicbird in flight, a brown seabird on a wave, and a long detached tail feather.

The Tropic Bird (Phaeton aethereus)

Johann Michael Seligmann, 1743

Etched print of two ornamental bands with facing lion and eagle heads above, two rams and a ram skull below.

Two Ornamental Bands with Facing Heads of Lion and Eagle, and Two Rams

Stefano Della Bella, probably 1648

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

Cattle Not Insurable

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1809

Black chalk sketch of a wooded landscape with a man walking a path and a dog on a hillside.

Landscape with a Man and a Dog

Leandro Bassano, 1580

Etched ornamental frieze of acanthus scrolls with putti, a raised garland, and dogs at the lower left.

Ornamental Frieze with Children and Dogs

Stefano Della Bella, probably 1648