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National Gallery of Art

14,478 works

Hand-colored engraving of a green touraco bird with a tall crest and long red-brown tail perched on a branch.

The Touraco Bird

Unknown artist

Hand-colored print of a violet and green bird with a blue tail perched on a branch, inside a yellow border.

Merle Violet, du Royaume de Juda

Engraved plate of nine labeled African birds, including crested and long-legged species, with French captions.

Oiseaux de guinee tires de bosman

Unknown artist

Hand-colored plate of a male and female Boat-tailed Grackle perched on a live oak branch with acorns.

Boat-Tailed Grackle

after John James Audubon John T. Bowen, 1840

Hand-colored lithograph of two green fruit doves with grey necks and orange foreheads on a rocky ledge among reeds.

Two Birds (Ptilonopus Auranthfrons)

Hand-colored engraving of two small green parrots with red and blue feathers perched on a branch.

Parrot (Le Perroquet Indien. Psittacus Minimus)

Johann Michael Seligmann after George Edwards

Hand-colored engraving of a brown parrot with green wings and red and blue tail feathers perched on a bare branch.

Parrot (Le Perroquet Brunatre. Pfittacus Fulcus Mexicanus)

Johann Sebastian Leitner after George Edwards

Hand-colored engraving of a puffin standing on rocks beside a swimming guillemot, with red seaweed and blue water.

The Guillemot and the Puffin of the Isle of Man

George Edwards, 1762

Hand-colored plate of two reddish-brown rail birds with barred flanks standing among grasses on sandy ground.

Birds of Philippines

John Gerrard Keulemans

Hand-colored bird plate of a dove perched on a green branch, labeled Plate 17 Turtur Risorius.

Turtur Risorius

William Home Lizars after Edward Lear

Hand-colored engraving of two green red-ringed parakeets perched among palm fronds in a tropical landscape.

Red Ringed Parrakeet

William Home Lizars after William Swainson

Hand-colored engraving of three birds: a dark blackbird on a branch, a yellow warbler on a twig, and a lark finch on the grou

Female Crow Blackbird, Orange-Crowned Warbler, Lark Finch

Alexander Lawson after Titian Ramsay Peale

Hand-colored print of three green hummingbirds in flight beside clusters of red and yellow tubular flowers.

Three Hummingbirds with Plant

Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach

Hand-colored bird plate showing a blue Stellar's Jay on a branch and two Lapland Longspurs below, one female.

Stellar's Jay, Lapland Longspur and Female

Alexander Lawson after Alexander Rider

Hand-colored print of two grey crested caracara birds with orange faces perched on a branch with leaves.

Polyborus Tharus, Var

Hand-colored engraving of five flycatchers on branches, with four bird eggs and an insect, numbered plate 13.

Five Birds with Their Eggs and an Insect

Alexander Lawson after Alexander Wilson, published 1808/1814

Etched landscape with a large tree, a mule driver on horseback with two mules by a stream, and distant village and hills.

The Mule Driver

Herman van Swanevelt

Etched landscape of a wooded cliff with a large tree, a stream, two figures at lower left, and distant hills.

The Mountain

Herman van Swanevelt

Etched landscape with a large tree on the left, a cascade over rocky cliffs on the right, and small figures near a river.

The Large Cascade

Herman van Swanevelt

Etching of a large tree on a rocky hill, travelers on a path, pack animals, and distant mountains under a cloudy sky.

A Group of Trees

Herman van Swanevelt

Print of a mounted armored rider on a rearing white horse lancing a dragon beneath it, with a stormy sky.

Saint George and the Dragon

Giuseppe Scolari, 1592/1607

Henri II, King of France

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1556

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds while robed apostles gather around a stone tomb below.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Follower of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called Morazzone

Brown ink drawing of a nymph in a shell chariot drawn by dolphins, with cupids above and sea figures in the waves below.

The Triumph of Galatea

Girolamo da Treviso II, c. 1535

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a standing woman in a headscarf and draped cloak, mounted on a cream board.

Study of a Standing Woman

Unknown artist

Brown ink drawing of a draped classical female statue seen from behind, with heavy folds of fabric and curly hair.

Female Roman Statue Seen from the Back

Attributed to Nicolas Poussin

Sketch of the Crucifixion with Christ center, two thieves on crosses, mourning women and soldiers below, in pencil on tan pap

The Crucifixion

Attributed to Giovanni Battista Naldini

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bearded man reading beside a lion in a rocky wilderness with trees.

Saint Jerome Reading in the Wilderness

Domenico Campagnola, 1520/1525

Loose brown ink sketch of a religious scene with seated women, a child and standing figures within an arched frame.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine?

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Etched portrait of a man with long curly hair holding a rolled scroll, with a script inscription below.

Jan de Vos

Karel Dujardin, 1652-1662