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National Gallery of Art

25,755 works

Etching of a schoolmaster in a tall hat instructing three pupils at a table in a dim interior with a latticed window.

Village Schoolmaster with Three Pupils

Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1679

Engraving of a nude man and woman beside a ball, a flaming torch and dark conifers in a forest setting.

Man and Woman with a Ball

Marcantonio Raimondi possibly after Francesco Francia

Etching of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and dark cloak leaning on a stone balustrade against a shadowed background.

Ephraim Bonus

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1647

Brown lithograph of three loosely sketched heads: a woman in a dark hat, a figure in a cap, and a young girl with bare should

Stone with Three Sketches (La pierre au trois croquis)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1904

Hand-coloured print of an inn courtyard in chaos, with people fleeing a fire, horses rearing, and pigs scattering.

The Inn Yard on Fire

Thomas Rowlandson, 1791

Hand-colored print of a bedroom scene with a seated man, a woman pulling on a stocking, and a woman in bed.

Four o'Clock in Town

Thomas Rowlandson, 1788

Colored caricature of men at a dining table dismayed as a servant spills a dish across the floor beside a dog.

The Disappointed Epicures

Thomas Rowlandson, 1787

Hand-colored 1789 print of a vaulted tavern cellar with a woman in a white hat, men smoking and drinking, and a dog.

Grog on Board

Thomas Rowlandson, 1789

Hand-colored print of men brawling and gambling around a round table, with raised chairs, pistols, and scattered coins.

A Kick-up at a Hazard Table

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1787

Hand-colored print of a busy market square with stepped-gable houses, horse carts, stalls and a tall column with a statue.

Place de Meir at Antwerp

Thomas Rowlandson, 1797

Hand-colored caricature of a wigged lawyer reading a document while a man in a tricorn hat gestures and talks to him.

Limbs of the Law

George Moutard Woodward, 1799

Hand-colored etching of spectators watching monkeys in a tower room with a fireplace, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1799.

The Monkey Room in the Tower

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1799

Hand-colored print of a crowded street market with a mountebank on a stage, cooking vendors, a couple embracing, and a dog.

Dr. Botherum, the Mountebank

Thomas Rowlandson, 1800

Colored print of an alchemist and assistant at a furnace in a cluttered laboratory, with a couple embracing in the doorway.

Hocus Pocus, or Searching for the Philosopher's Stone

Thomas Rowlandson, 1800

Hand-colored caricature of a skeleton rider trampling merchants with food goods, beside a statue and a devil, 1800.

Downfall of Monopoly in 1800

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1800

Hand-colored caricature print of a dense crowd of exaggerated faces in period hats and wigs behind a diagonal lattice.

Odd-Characters

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1801

Hand-colored print of a terrified lawyer in wig fleeing skeletons on horseback past a Road to Hell signpost.

The Lawyers Last Circuit

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1802

Hand-colored etching of people tumbling and scrambling down a grassy hill beneath a tree in Greenwich Park.

One Tree Hill, Greenwich Park

Thomas Rowlandson, 1802

Sepia print of a horse race with jockeys galloping past crowds, carriages, and picnicking spectators on a rolling landscape.

Running

John Bluck after Thomas Rowlandson, published 1804

Red leather book cover with gold border and crest, titled Caricatures, volume II.

Caricatures (volume II)

Thomas Rowlandson

Colored sketch of fashionable women and attendants in a dressing room, with a feathered headdress and a mirror.

Dressing for a Birthday

Thomas Rowlandson, 1788

Hand-colored drawing of a man in a blue coat and red hat pondering at a desk with a ledger, a woman seated by a window.

A Money Scrivener

Thomas Rowlandson, 1801

Colored print of a caricatured barber shop in 1789, with a barber woman, a shaved customer, and a wig maker at work.

A Penny Barber

Thomas Rowlandson, 1789

Colored sketch of carts racing down a village street, with figures thrown from overturned carts and onlookers at an inn.

A Cart Race

Thomas Rowlandson, 1788

Hand-colored sketch of a grey racehorse and jockeys racing past a crowd of spectators, carriages, and running dogs.

The High-mettled Racer

Thomas Rowlandson, 1789

Colored sketch of jockeys and grooms leading horses across a racecourse under a pale sky with clouds.

The Course

Thomas Rowlandson, probably 1789

Colored print of a stampeding ox scattering a crowd on a bridge near a church tower and sailing ships.

The Overdrove Ox

Thomas Rowlandson, 1787

Hand-colored oval etching of an older man in a red coat holding a seated woman's hand, with a horse and tree behind them.

The Enamoured Sportsman

Thomas Rowlandson

Hand-colored print of four fashionable women at two windows of a brick building, with hats, curls and painted signage.

First and Second Floor

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1791

Hand-colored print of dancers performing on a stage before a crowded tiered theatre filled with spectators in period dress.

The Prospect before us, No. 2

Thomas Rowlandson, published 1791