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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Pen and grey wash drawing of a crowd of onlookers gathered at the back of a wooden peep-show booth.

The Peep-Show

Pietro Antonio Novelli, 1765/1766

Brown wash drawing of a tower beside a winding road, a river with grazing cattle, and trees on rolling hills.

View near Rosora di Serra San Quirico

Drawing of a haloed woman held by tormentors as one uses pincers at her mouth, with a winged figure and flames above.

The Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia

Sepia engraving of a banquet interior with seated figures, fruit platter, wine glass, and a distant city seen through an arch

The Prodigal Son Squandering His Inheritance on Harlots

Dirck Volckertz Coornhert after Maerten van Heemskerck, c. 1548

Etching of an angel above a sleeping man, with a veiled figure holding a child and animals in a rocky landscape.

Joseph Awakened by the Angel

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1635/1640

Woodcut of Samson seized by Philistine soldiers as Delilah watches, with a stone gate and landscape behind.

Samson and Delilah

Niccolò Boldrini after Titian, c. 1540

Engraved oval portrait of a young boy in ermine-trimmed royal robes, with fleur-de-lis drapery and a crowned coat of arms bel

Louis XV

Nicolas de Larmessin IV after Hyacinthe Rigaud, c. 1720

Pen drawing of winged warriors battling in the sky above a castle town, with a king and retinue and ladies below.

A King and His Retinue Confronting Ladies under a Celestial Battle

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Chalk portrait drawing of an older man with white hair and a high collar on toned grey paper.

Benjamin Fisher

Attributed to Gilbert Stuart

Chalk portrait drawing of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and shawl, on tan paper.

Mrs. Benjamin Fisher

Attributed to Gilbert Stuart

Pen and watercolor drawing of nude women bathing in a stream beneath trees, with drapery on the bank.

Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing

Thomas Rowlandson

Engraving of a hairy giant with a club and a woman in white gown in a gothic hall, with onlookers behind them.

Canto IV, Verse 294

William Blake after Mary Ann Flaxman, 1803

Engraved oval illustration of figures clustered beneath a lion-like face, one raising a staff, with a printed book page borde

Canto I

William Sharp after Thomas Stothard, 1787-1788

Engraving of a woman in a bonnet reading a newspaper, with a man with a cane and a silver urn on a table nearby.

Illustration for Canto IV

William Sharp after Thomas Stothard, published 1788

Engraved print of a seated elderly man in a wig with a cane, and a standing young woman in a gown beside a door.

Illustration for Canto II

Charles Heath after Thomas Stothard, 1788

Engraved plate of three draped women in an oval, one seated tending a potted plant beneath a garland, 1788.

Illustration for Canto V

James Neagle after Thomas Stothard, published 1788

Engraving of Saint Cecilia with winged angels playing flute, lute and violin at a candlelit table.

Saint Cecilia Accompanied by Heavenly Musicians

Nicolaes Lauwers after Gerard Seghers

Hand-colored engraving of a large white cockatoo with a red-tipped raised crest perched on a branch above moss.

Psittacus albus cristatus maximus

Johann Sebastian Leitner after George Edwards

Engraved print of a mounted man in military uniform on a white horse, raising a sword under a stormy sky.

George Washington on Horseback

William Holl II after John Faed

Engraving of a vestal virgin with a sieve, a reclining river god pouring water, a wolf, putti and a classical Roman cityscape

The Vestal Virgin Tuccia

Theodor Galle after Jan van der Straet, c. 1595

Etching of a vast vaulted interior with two lions, chains, scaffolding and small workmen among towering arches.

The Lion Bas-Reliefs

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, published 1761

Pencil fan design with a central roundel of a female figure and putti, flanked by butterflies, ladybugs, and flowers.

Fan Design [recto]

Lovis Corinth, probably 1906

Pencil sketch of a seated young woman in a short-sleeved dress, head tilted upward, signed and dated 1889 at lower right.

Seated Young Woman [recto]

Lovis Corinth, 1889

Pen drawing of a family seated and standing around a table in an interior, with a mother holding a baby and a man reading.

The Nauwerk Family

Johan Christian Dahl, 1819

Pen and brown ink drawing of a mustached man in a voluminous turban with a jeweled clasp and a bird-shaped ornament.

Oriental in a Fantastic Headdress

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1731/1732

Pen and wash drawing of armed men attacking in a doorway while a figure lies dead on a stone floor.

The Assassination of King Wenzel III

Josef von Führich

Pencil study on tinted paper of two men, one carrying an oar over his shoulder and one gesturing with outstretched arms.

Studies for a Boatman

Studies of Men in Togas [recto]

Watercolor drawing of a town square with an ornate fountain, a tall clock tower, a domed church and mountains behind.

View of Trento

Albert Emil Kirchner

Pencil sketch of horses beside a covered wagon with resting men in the foreground.

Wallachian Wagoners Resting

Johann Adam Klein, probably c. 1813