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Mythology

8,148 works

Study after Statue of Venus de' Medici

John Downman, 1774

Gray wash drawing of Apollo with a radiant halo in a chariot among clouds, muses, and flying putti.

Apollo and the Muses

Giuseppe Valeriani

Pencil study of a crouching female nude with curled hair, arms crossed over her chest, seated beside a fluted base.

Study after the Statue of Crouching Venus

John Downman, 1774

Grey wash drawing of a reclining draped classical statue on a plinth against a stone wall, after an antique sculpture.

Study after the antique: the Sleeping Ariadne

John Downman, 1774

Pen drawing of a nude female figure seen from behind beside draped cloth, a study after a classical statue.

Study after Statue of the Capitoline Venus

John Downman, 1774

Study after a bust of Hercules

John Downman, c. 1774

Engraved title page with allegorical figures, cherubs, scientific instruments and a large inscribed cartouche before classica

Minerva lauwert de Tekenkunst

Jan Caspar Philips, 1733

Brown wash drawing of a seated bearded figure by a river watching an older man lift an infant from the water.

Mythological Birth of a God or Demi-God from a River

Jan Goeree, n.d.

Engraving of Venus and Mercury embracing with cupids, doves and drapery, with Latin verses below.

Venus and Mercury

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1598

Engraving of Mercury leading a young man to Minerva, with a trumpeting winged figure and Latin verses below.

Mercurius leidt jonge kunstenaars naar Minerva

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1628

Engraving of Mercury leading young artists to Minerva, with a trumpet-blowing figure above and draped curtains at right.

Mercurius leidt jonge kunstenaars naar Minerva

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1592

Engraving of Psyche reclining nude on a draped bed with winged Cupid figures and putti in an interior.

Amor en Psyche

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1630

Engraving of two nude figures seen from behind, one holding a raised vase and the other embracing him, with fine hatching.

Mercurius en Psyche: aanzicht met de achterzijde van Psyche

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1595

Engraving of a tiered fountain with a bronze Hercules statue on top, water jets, nude figures, and cherubs with coats of arms

Fontein van Hercules te Augsburg

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1602

Pen and ink drawing of a nude youth with a bow and quiver of arrows, standing with drapery behind him on grey paper.

Apollo

After Jan Harmensz Muller, c. 1600-1620

Etching of ruined Corinthian columns and an entablature with small figures among Roman ruins under a cloudy sky.

Tav. 7 Tempio di Giove Tonans 1. Tempio della Concordia (Pl. 7 Temple of Jupiter Tonans [Jupiter the Thunderer] 1. Te…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Pen and sepia drawing of a seated winged cupid with arms crossed, framed in an oval of hatched lines on cream paper.

Seated Cupid

Samuel Shelley, 1776/1808

Pen drawing of a book cover design with bold lettering for Couperus's Psyche and decorative scroll borders.

Bandontwerp voor: Louis Couperus, Psyche, 1904

Hendrik Petrus Berlage, 1904

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded sea god's face with flowing beard, wheat stalks and shells in an ornamental panel.

Head of Neptune

James Barry, 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of Bacchus and Ariadne with figures on clouds, cherubs and a flying putto in a sketched frame.

Bacchus and Ariadne

James Thornhill, n.d.

Pen and wash design drawing of a painted wall with Neptune and Amphitrite on a sea chariot between two niche statues and colu

Neptune and Amphitrite Flanked by Jupiter and Juno: Design for Painted Hall or Garden Bench

James Thornhill, n.d.

Pen and wash design for stage scenery with classical columns, a globe held by a kneeling atlas figure, and a chariot with hor

Design for Stage Scenery (Hampton Court) with Mythological Figures

James Thornhill, 1695/1734

Charcoal and white chalk study of a nude male figure with a lyre and staff, haloed, on grey paper.

Study for Apollo

Pen and wash drawing of nude and draped female figures gathered together, some seated and some standing, in a classical scene

Nymphs Bathing

Possibly Giulio Testone, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of nymphs bathing near a statue of Diana with hounds and stag antlers in a wooded setting.

Diana and Nymphs Bathing

Possibly Jacob Jordaens, 1640/49

Brown ink and wash drawing of Cupid holding a lamp over the sleeping Psyche on a bed, with draped curtain and mountains.

Cupid and Psyche

Anthoni Schoonjans, n.d.

Drawing of Apollo on a cloud with lyre, surrounded by the Muses playing harp and instruments, with putti.

Apollo and the Muses

Possibly Bartholomaeus Spranger, c. 1700

Red chalk drawing of the sea god Neptune, a bearded nude man with a trident and billowing cloak, standing on rocks.

Neptune

Possibly Theodor van Thulden, n.d.

Mezzotint of a nude youth Ganymede carried off by a large eagle over a dark cloudy sky, after Rembrandt.

Jupiter en Ganymedes

Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon, 1795

Pen and wash drawing of Vulcan and an assistant hammering armor at an anvil, with Venus and Cupid watching.

Vulcan Making Arms for Achilles, while Venus and Cupid Look On

the elder Abraham Drentwett, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a standing muscular nude man with bowed head and drapery over one arm.

Staande Hercules

Gérard ter Borch, 1631

Engraving of Hercules fighting two centaurs within an oval ornamental frame with lion heads and an owl.

Hercules in strijd met de centauren

Gerard de Jode, 1519