title: Plate 27 from "Los Caprichos": Which of them is the more overcome? (Quien mas rendido?)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, aquatint, drypoint

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918


title: Gold crescent-shaped earring

date: 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek, cypriot

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) via The Met Open Access.

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Pair of seated figures with globes

creator: Chantilly

medium: Soft-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over tin glaze; gilt bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Douglas Dillon, 2003


title: Elmer Ellsworth Foster, Center Field, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Terracotta fragments of a neck-amphora of Panathenaic shape

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Trade card for Maison Jacquin Jeune, garden supplier, Paris

creator: Maison Jacquin Jeune

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Fan Design with the Pantheon and the Colosseum

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Watercolor and gouache on vellum ?

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Portrait of a Young Man

creator: Bernardino Detti

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Alice Borland Wilson, 1956


title: Disk (bi)

medium: Glass

country: China

subjects: Glass China

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2006


title: Sampler

medium: Silk and linen on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: From the Collection of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper, Bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper, 1957


title: Serving Knife

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Steel, brass, wood, bone, mother-of-pearl

country: Austrian

subjects:
Metalwork-steel
Austrian
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1951


title: Innocent XIII (Pope 1721–24)

creator: Ermenegildo Hamerani

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


title: Spoon

creator: Michel Hansen Blytt

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: De la maniere de graver a l'eauforte et au burin, et de la gravure in maniere noire. . .Nouvelle édition augmentée

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Books

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1963


title: The Boy from Savoy and His Monkey

creator: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

medium: Lithograph; second state of three

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962


title: Drawers

date: second quarter 19th century

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Chauncey Stillman Gift, 1982


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Cameo cut agate with agate stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: The Silver World (Gin sekai) 銀世界

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

date: 1790, first month

medium: Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Neit (?) amulet

medium: Gold sheet

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. V. Everit Macy, 1923


title: Teapot (part of a service)

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of James A. Lewis, 1946


title: Necklace

date: 19th century

medium: Amber, jade and silver

country: Tibet

subjects: Jewelry Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Annette Young, in memory of her brother, Innis Young, 1954


title: Fragment

date: 17th century or possibly modern

medium: Silk on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Pharaon

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Vase

date: early 17th century

medium: Colorless (slightly gray) and opaque white nonlead glass. Mold blown, "vetro a retorti" and "vetro a reticello", trailed, molded, gilt.

country: Italian (Venice)

subjects:
Glass
Italian (venice)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Opening of hunting season, it seems that two partridges have been sighted in the area, from 'Autumn sketches,' published in Le Charivari, September 25, 1865

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 25, 1865

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: The Buddha Shakyamuni, Five Past Buddhas, and Maitreya

date: ca. 15th century

medium: Wood with red pigment, gold, and ink

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Jeffrey B. Soref, 1983


title: S. Benoit (St. Benedict), March 21st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Buckle Loop

date: 13th century

medium: Bronze, gilt

country: French, Haute-Savoie

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French, haute-savoie

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: See 35.1.16

medium: Faience, paint

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Edward S. Harkness Gift and by exchange, 1922, 1929, 1935


title: Terracotta fragment of a stemless kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Reliefs from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Medal of Major General Alexander Macomb

creator: Moritz Fürst

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Mahasiddha Jnanatapa

medium: Distemper on cloth

country: Eastern Tibet, Kham, Riwoche monastery

subjects:
Painting
Eastern tibet, kham, riwoche monastery

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1987


title: Dish with Bush Clover Design

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Porcelain painted with overglaze enamels (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975


title: Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

medium: Green glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920


title: Bobbin

medium: Wood, metal and beads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: The Nuttall Collection, Gift of Mrs. Magdalena Nuttall, 1908


title: Royal Guard, Sweden, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Glass ribbed bowl

date: late 1st century BCE–mid 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Embalmer's Needle

medium: Wood (tamarisk?)


title: Shabti Box of Nauny

medium: Sycomore, stucco, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Armorial dish: The story of King Anius

creator: Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)


title: Pair of Rowel Spurs

medium: Copper alloy, gold

country: European

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
European

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: The Yaozen Restaurant, San’ya (San’ya, Yaozen), from the series A Collection of Famous Restaurants of Edo (Edo Kōmei Kaitei Zukushi)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Arrivée en Alsace du commissaire extraordinaire Coco Romieu, published in Le Charivari

date: February 28, 1850

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Harry Friedman, 1960


title: Seal

medium: gold-cased metal, quartz

country: probably British

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Huntly Gordon, in memory of Douglas Huntley Gordon 1866-1918 of Baltimore and Rappahnnock County, VA, 1982


title: Winter

creator: Nicolas Poussin

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Merry Folly, from "The Disparates" (Follies / Irrationalities)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching,burnished aquatint, drypoint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frank D. Millet, 1913


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Scraper

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Mlle. Rordame, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: La Flèche Hen, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Gable seal

medium: Marble, black with white and orange veins

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Quilt (or decorative throw), Crazy pattern

creator: Tamar Horton Harris North

medium: Silk, silk velvet, cotton, and cotton lace

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Cooper, 1983


title: Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Openweave Cap with Tassels

date: 11th–14th century

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Hobnail Sauce Dish

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

date: after 1886

medium: Pressed cranberry with opaque white glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: San Lorenzo, Library, Ricetto, entry portal from library, elevation (recto) San Lorenzo, Library, Ricetto, entry portal from library, plan and section (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz and Anne Bigelow Scholz, in memory of Flying Officer Walter Bigelow Rosen, RCAF, 1949


title: Standing Figure

creator: Elemér de Kóródy

medium: Ink on paper

credit_line: Gift of Martin Birnbaum, 1959


title: Pilgrimage to Myōhōji in Horinouchi, Edo

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro

medium: Two sheets of a pentaptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Chariot D'Orsay #4075

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink , watercolor and gouache with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Nymph Supported by Two Satyrs, from "Four Bacchanalia" (Quatre Bacchanales)

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Slant front desk

medium: Cherry

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Screven Lorillard (Alice Whitney), from the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 2016


title: Scale from Armor

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Dakini

date: 14th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on hemp

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of Wen C. Fong, 2000


title: Tobacco box

date: 18th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1914


title: Pouch

medium: Silk, metallic

country: Russian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Ford Goulding, 1969


title: Shinagawa Samesu Asa no Kei

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Bird cage with hook

medium: Ivory, wood, iron

subjects: Ivorie China Birds

credit_line: Gift of Robert James Sistrunk, 1982


title: Lead figure of a horse

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1924


title: Fatigue Cap, Ulan, Germany, from the Military Uniforms series (T182) issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Plate decorated with Japanese Kakiemon-inspired scene with twisted dragon

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

date: ca. 1752, probably Raised Anchor Period

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, Larry and Ann Burns Gift, in honor of Austin B. Chinn, 2018


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Jar from the Burial of Amenhotep

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell

creator: Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

medium: Gold

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Metal-container
Lambayeque (sicán)
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991


title: The Architect Charles-Victor Famin

creator: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk

subjects: Architecture Album

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Coat of Arms, China, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Book cover to an Illustrated Tourist Guide of Noted Summer & Winter Resorts of California

creator: Emmanuel Wyttenbach

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948


title: Javelin (Uchi-Ne)

medium: Shafted Weapons

country: Japanese

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Evening turban

medium: cotton

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Belt Fittings

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Bronze; cast

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Silk bobbin lace scarf

date: early 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Stag Fighting a Wolf, after Antoine Louis Barye

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Head-shaped bead

creator: Moche artist(s)

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Beads-ornament


title: A young man, seated and playing the violin at centre, flanked by two woman holding flutes, another woman in the background

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Uninscribed shabti from tomb of Nespekashuty

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in memory of Charles Dikran and Beatrice Kelekian, 1999


title: Adoration of the Magi

creator: Southern Germany or Austria

medium: Tempera and gold and silver leaf on parchment

country: Southern German or Austrian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Southern german or austrian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: A Diplomatic Mission to the Jin

creator: Yang Bangji

date: ca. late 1150s

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Edward Elliott Family Collection, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1982


title: Mercury Entering Herse's Room After Changing Agraulos to Stone, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Book II

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 17th century

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: "Don Quixote"

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Card Number 121, Eliza Weathersby, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Plate 13: Vendor of rat poison

creator: Simon Guillain II

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Les plaisirs de l'école de natation, from Croquis Été, published in Le Charivari, June 22, 1858

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962


title: Cup (part of a coffee service)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Joe Dugan, 3 B., Yankees, from Baseball strip cards (W575-2)

medium: Commercial photolithograph


title: Saucer

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Wedding shoes

medium: [no medium available]

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Virginia Pierce Dalgado-Orth and Mrs. Violet Johnston Hill, 1946


title: Portions of a Boy's Costume Armor

creator: Hans Seusenhofer

medium: Steel, copper alloy, gold

country: Austrian, Innsbruck

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor part
Austrian, innsbruck

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929


title: Monster-Headed Male Deity with Consort

date: 10th–11th century(?)

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987


title: Moses

creator: Gustav Jäger

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Gordon Gift, 2008


title: Seated man

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Ernst E. Kofler, 1962


title: Chair Back

medium: Embroidered silk, canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt Amory, 1963


title: Waterfall on a Cold Cliff

creator: Lu Hui

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Jane DeBevoise and the Calello Family, 2024


title: Relief with Inhabited Trees

date: early 18th century

medium: Stone, stucco, and polychrome

country: India (Gujarat or Rajasthan)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (gujarat or rajasthan)
Trees

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 2005


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Lillian Grubb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Soup plate (part of a service)

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation, 1951


title: Funerary Cone of the Scribe Wadjmose

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Dish from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Plate 22: Venus ordering Psyche to Sosort a heap of grain, from the 'Fable of Psyche'

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

creator: B. N.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Ionian Islands, from Flags of All Nations, Series 2 (N10) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Sketch of a Ship's Stern (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium:
Graphite on wove paper with gilt edges, bound in a leather
 cover

subjects:
American
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Cravat (one of a pair)

medium: Bobbin lace, Brussels bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1934


title: Sadi-Carnot, President of France, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-1) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Beatrice de Mauriac, etc., 1976


title: Yokohama Foreigners in the Sitting Room of a Merchant Ship

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

date: 1861, 9th month

medium: Middle panel of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Print
Japan
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Evening dress

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Frank L. Babbott, Jr., 1930


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Rectangular Plaque

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: [Unidentified Child]

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969


title: Timoteo Moffei, Canon of Verona

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Platter

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chace, 1969


title: Plate Eight from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

creator: Gilles Demarteau

date: dated 1743

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Work on paper-engraving
French, pari

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2016


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Roundel with Annunciation to the Virgin

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1972


title: Daoist immortals in a landscape

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 16th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1983


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Witch of Endor

creator: Ary Scheffer

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Pillar with Capital

date: 9th century

medium: Marble (Carrara marble)

country: South Italian

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
South italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Large Bowl with Plum Blossoms and Openwork Hemp Leaves

date: 18th century

medium: Stoneware with polychrome enamels and gold over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Ko-Kiyomizu type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Standing Figure

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Greenstone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Funada Yoshinaga

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper, gold, silver

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, 1943


title: Lobed box and cover with double phoenix

date: mid-18th century

medium: Soapstone

subjects: Soapstone China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts and funds from various donors, 2019


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Queen Victoria

creator: Leonard Charles Wyon

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2001


title: Bottle

medium: White porcelain with incised design (Arita ware, Ko Imari style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and hemp

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Evening vest

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Alvah E. Reed, 1966


title: Hammered Silver Arc Ornament

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Silver, gilt

country: Chimú

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Chimú

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: Vase

medium: Cloisonné enamel on copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Bernardino, from Scelta d'Alcuni Miracoli e Grazie della Santissima Nunziata di Firenze (Selection of Some Miracles and Graces that Occurred in the Church of the Annunziata in Florence)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Round gown

medium: silk, linen

country: Italian

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1979


title: Plate

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962


title: Still Life of Fruit and Nuts

creator: Giuseppe Ruoppolo

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Fruits

credit_line: Bequest of Errol M. Rudman, 2020


title: Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtis, 1953


title: Pompone II de Bellièvre

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Mountainous Landscape with Tobias and the Angel

creator: Tobias Verhaecht

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Strip

date: first half 20th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Gift of Sidney Cardozo, 1962


title: Bicycle, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 4) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Jarabe, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.


title: Terracotta statuette of a nude woman

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot (Second State)

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled probably ca. 1895–1910, cast 1920

medium: Bronze

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Vase with cover

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Pastry mold

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Vishnu

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Sandstone

country: India (Punjab)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (punjab)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Hammered Silver Drum Ornament

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast


title: Valentine - Mechanical nosegay (tussy mussy)

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Heavy die-cut card stock, gilt chromolithography, die-cut chromolithographed scraps

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Fragment of Frieze with Acanthus Leaves Encircling Fruit and Flowers

date: 6th century

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

subjects: Sculpture Flowers Fruits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Kihei Hattori, in memory of his father, Kihei Hattori, 1920


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Haybarn with Movable Roof

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving, second state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1970


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Feu d'Artifice donné à  Paris au Mariage de Napoléon

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Etching and engraving, hand-colored

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

medium: Carnelian

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Hammered Silver Miniature Crown

date: 11th–mid-16th century

country: Peru; north or central coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north or central coast

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: Plate 10 from "La Tauromaquia": Charles V spearing a bull in the ring at Valladolid

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Moss agate with green jadeite stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Mosses & lichens

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, October 17th, 1777

creator: Otto Knirsch

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Tile

creator: Chelsea Keramic Art Works

medium: Earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018


title: Bust of a Young Woman with Hat, Wine Glass (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Black ink and graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970


title: Reclining putto

creator: Andrea del Verrocchio

date: probably 19th century

medium: Bronze


title: The Oiran Yoyogiku of Matsubaya Standing under a Cherry Tree

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Trees

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Basket (part of a set)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation, 1951


title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)

medium: Terracotta


title: Schönbrunn on Sunday (Schönbrunn: am Sonntag)

creator: Adalberta Kiessewetter

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Judgment of Paris

creator: Hans von Aachen

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Claus von Bülow Gift, 1979


title: Snuffbox with scene of harvesting fruit

creator: Johann Wilhelm Keibel

medium: Four-color gold, painting in gouache on vellum

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Fruits

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Textile Fragment

date: 7th century

medium: Linen, wool

country: Coptic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in honor of Olga Raggio, 2002


title: Bronze oinochoe (jug)

date: early 5th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass


title: Storage Bag

date: early 19th century

medium: Wool (warp, weft and pile), silk (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Military epaulets

medium: Wool, metallic

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Eleanor Fayerweather, 1949


title: Mrs. Gabriel Manigault (Margaret Izard)

creator: Walter Robertson

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1928


title: Padlock

date: 19th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Bowl

subjects: Vase Cypriot

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Minnie Palmer, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 2) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, weft loop weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Pastorale

creator: Gilles Demarteau

date: 18th century

medium: Crayon-manner etching printed in red and black ink

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Hammered Silver Ornament with Repoussé Disks

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: Overseer Shabti of Henettawy (C), Daughter of Isetemkheb

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: American or European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American or european

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1972


title: Esculapius (Esculapius in aedibus Card. Burghesij), from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Wedge-shaped Capital

date: late 11th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1949


title: Galloon

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic


title: M. Roquell, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Ewer stand with classicizing head

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Decanter with stopper (one of a pair)

date: late 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Moore, 1923


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: [Interior of Confederate Fort Darling, Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia]

creator: William Frank Browne

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Pyke House

creator: Unknown

credit_line: Gift of Walter Schatzki, 1955


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th century

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Hercules Skinning the Nemean Lion

creator: François Lespingola

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Fibula, serpentine type

date: 7th century BCE

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: [Sculptures of a Dancing Faun, a Neapolitan Improvisatore, Homer, and Thucydides]

creator: Philip Henry Delamotte

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Linen mark (Type XIV)

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Rio della Sensa, Venice

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink and graphite traces on off-white buff paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: Earring with pendant of grapes

medium: Gold

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek or roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper

subjects: Metal-implement Chimú

credit_line: Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986


title: Ceramic Head Vessel

date: 10th–13th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Toltec (?)

subjects:
Toltec
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Agate with red glass stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Tillie: a Model (Tillie Gilchrist)

medium: Drypoint, printed in black ink on ivory laid paper; third state of five (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Evening ensemble

creator: Charles Frederick Worth

medium: silk, metal

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Edith Gardiner, 1926


title: Effie Latour, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Michael Dahl

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Bruguière, in memory of Louis Bruguière, 1956


title: View of Kanagawa on the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō kanagawa no shōkei)

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

medium: Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Purple red paste paper

medium: Paste paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Peg Lamp

medium: Pressed green glass, brass

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Michael Heidelberger, in memory of Nina T. Heidelberger, 1982


title: Viewing Antiquities Hall

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Pine soot and binding medium; inscribed in gilt

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Set of six panels

medium: Oak, wax-polished

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Rosewater jug

date: 17th century

medium: Glazed earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Strip

medium: Embroidered net, buratto

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Viola

creator: Benjamin Banks

medium: Wood

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy and Robert Rosenbaum, 1979


title: A Young Man Seized by Death, from Hymmelwagen auff dem, wer wol lebt...

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Pair of frames

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Console table (one of a pair)

medium: Wood, partly gilded and painted; marble

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Cup (from a set of eight)

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Bronze torso of a youth

date: 1st half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Sword (Talwar)

medium: Steel, silver

country: Indian

subjects: Sword Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Conversion of Saul, from Michelangelo's fresco in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican

creator: Nicolas Beatrizet

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: A Marble Plaque with Military Insignia, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

medium: Engraving; first state of two (Robert-Dumesnil)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Dish with Peaches

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain with celadon glaze and underglaze blue (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: The Altar of Liberty

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, gold, brass

country: Sumatran

subjects: Krisse Sumatran


title: Worker Shabti of Henettawy (C), Daughter of Isetemkheb

medium: Faience


title: The Sacrifice of Isaac

creator: Johan Carl Loth

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, corrections in white

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Bowl

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain


title: Dutch Indies, from Flags of All Nations, Series 2 (N10) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Sampler

medium: Wool and silk on linen canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: From the Collection of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper, Bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper, 1957


title: Double Capital

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


medium: Terracotta


title: Sketch for Ceiling Panel

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, washed


title: Architectura Privata: Das is Gründtliche Beschreibung...in was form...ein Burgerliches Wohn-Haus...

creator: Joseph Furttenbach the Elder

medium: Illustrations: engravings

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954


title: Wine Glass

medium: Engraved blown lead glass

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Vase

creator: Eiraku Hozen

medium: White porcelain decorated with gold on an iron red ground


title: Sketch of Rocky Cliffside (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Lip cup (drinking cup)

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: The Moerdyck, after Jan van Goyen, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching; second state of two (Gonse)

credit_line: Purchase, 1871, transferred from the Department of Paintings


title: Stone Penate Figure

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stone

country: Mixtec

subjects: Stone-sculpture Mixtec

credit_line: Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986


title: The Fourth Matsumoto Koshiro in the Role of Oboshi Yuranosuke

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Glass bottle

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Candlestick

creator: Franchi and Son

date: 19th century, after ca. 1550 original

medium: Gilt copper

credit_line: Purchase, 1873


title: Netsuke of Frog

medium: Wood

subjects:
Netsuke
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Salt

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Lacy pressed blue glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Green, in memory of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1951


title: Candlestick (one of a set of eight)

creator: Andrew Fogelberg

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Textile with Bamboo Leaves

medium: Resist-dyed and painted plain-weave silk crepe (chirimen)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennan Ford, 2008


title: Spouted jug

medium: Transparent dark blue and opaque white nonlead glass. Blown, pattern molded, trailed.

country: Façon de venise, probably Barcelona

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass
Façon de venise, probably barcelona

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Gimp

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: [Group of 4 Stereograph Views of California Missions]

creator: M. Rieder

medium: Albumen silver prints

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, in memory of Kathleen W. Naef and Weston J. Naef Sr., 1982


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Handkerchief

medium: Bobbin lace

country: Mexican

credit_line: The Nuttall Collection, Gift of Mrs. Magdalena Nuttall, 1908


title: Brougham #4039

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with gum arabic and metallic ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Small male figure in profile view whose face is hidden by his upraised arm holding a cup, with lowered hand grasping a vessel, from "Varie Figure Gobbi"

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Temporary Structure in Celebration of the Birth of the Duc de Bourgogne (August 6, 1682)

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over graphite and traces of red chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1986


title: Officers of U.S.S. Hunchback

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Studies of Two Ears and of a Bat. Below, the motto: FULGET SEMPER VIRTUS

creator: Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

medium: Red chalk and brush and red wash on beige paper.  Composition outlined on all borders with ruled lines in black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Ring

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Stamp seal

date: 1st century CE

medium: Quartz, crystal

country: Kushan

subjects:
Kushan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1949


title: The Fourth Matsumoto Koshiro as a Man Walking under an Umbrella

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Urn (cachepot)

creator: Belleek

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. George E. Dix, 1990


title: Glass gladiator cup

date: ca. 50–80 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: La Source

creator: C. Derancourt

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942


title: Nonne blanche (tete)

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Terracotta tripod pyxis (box)

date: 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: The White King in a Council with the Welsh Party, Receiving a Message, from "Der Weisskunig"

creator: Hans Burgkmair

date: printed 18th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Kohl Stick

medium: Wood, ebony

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Big Fish Eat Little Fish

creator: Pieter van der Heyden

medium: Engraving; first state of four

subjects: Fish Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Three children's heads

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Side Chair

medium: Walnut, tulip poplar

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Magdalene standing facing right, jar held in her raised right hand

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Sala delle Statue

creator: James Anderson

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1983


title: Tall Stem Bowl

medium: Pottery with painted decoration

country: Thailand (Ban Chiang)

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand (ban chiang)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Phillips, 1973


title: A Plan for General Reform, Respectfully submitted to the attention of Members of Parliament, During the Summer Reccess

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: May (Maius)

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Using the free time the elections have given him, from News of the day, published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1986


title: Ribbon

medium: Silk


title: A Parisienne on a Crowded Street

creator: Henri Somm

medium: Watercolor, graphite, pen and ink

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Lee Anz Lehman, 2007


title: Orphrey

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
German
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1914


title: Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Avarice (Avaritia), from "The Seven Vices"

creator: Georg Pencz

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Tea caddy (part of a traveling tea service)

creator: Dihl et Guérhard

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Tazza

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware inlaid with slip, with molded ornament

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Return of the Prodigal Son, Shown Embracing His Son

creator: Pietro Testa

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Le Marquis de Marigny

creator: Charles Nicolas Cochin II

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Hair Dressing Tool (Kogai)

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kogai
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1988


title: Earring-loop type, plain

medium: Gold

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Presentation box with figures in a landscape

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay and red-lacquered basketry panels

country: Japan (Ryūkyū Islands)

subjects:
Lacquer
Japan (ryūkyū islands)
Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2020


title: [Sir David Brewster]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Woman's Sleeveless Jacket

date: early 20th century

medium: Silk tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1945


title: Miss Cemie Roberts, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Trionfo Di Virtu. Libro Novo..., page 2 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Pot That Contained a Donkey (12.181.272b-k)

medium: Pottery, coarse light ware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Terracotta fragment of a bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)


title: Bonnet

medium: Linen

country: Irish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Wallace Walker, 1940


title: A Short History: General George E. Pickett, from the Histories of Generals series (N114) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: The Reception of Louis XIV at the Hôtel de Ville on the Occasion of his Recovery, January 30, 1687

creator: Sébastien Leclerc I

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956


title: Basket

date: 19th century

medium: Bamboo

country: Japan

subjects: Basketry Japan

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: Standing Tara, the Buddhist Savioress

date: 9th century

medium: Bronze

country: Pakistan (Northwest Frontier Providence, Swat Valley)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Gary Katz, 1984


title: L'Arc de Triomphe

creator: Hubert Robert

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Standing Figure of Apollo

creator: Antoine Coypel

medium: Black and white chalk; squared in black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Marie Borroughs, from World's Beauties, Series 1 (N26) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Piece

medium: Cotton, linen warp

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Everfast Industries Inc., 1971


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)


title: Ring

medium: Silver


title: E. B. Bigelow, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

date: early 6th century BCE

country: East Greek

subjects:
Vase
East greek


title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Border design with knights, ladies and dragons (recto); Sketches for border elements (verso)

creator: Richard Doyle

medium:
Recto: graphite, pen and black ink, touches of brush and yellow-green wash
Verso: graphite

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964


title: Ars Moriendi La Historia del iudicio del figliolo de dio Iesu Christo

medium: Books

credit_line: Jacob H. Schiff Fund, 1922


title: The Triumph of Virtues: Justice, Peace and Abundance

date: last quarter 16th century

medium: Lead

credit_line: The Erich Lederer Collection, Gift of Mrs. Erich Lederer, 1986


title: Feathered Panel

medium: Feathers, cotton, camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-featherwork

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: second half of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Rosewater Sprinkler (Gulab Pash)

date: late 18th century

medium: Silver; surface partially gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2018


title: Ichimura Takenojō V as Yukanba Kozō Kichiza, from A Modern Water Margin (Kinsei suikoden)

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1960


title: Copper plate printed cotton with King George III hunting in Windsor Park

creator: J. Seymour

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Sampler

medium: Wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: From the Collection of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper, Bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper, 1957


title: Goyu

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Bowl

creator: Toyosuke IV

medium: Pottery covered enameled glaze and an overglaze decoration

subjects: Ceramic Japan


title: Collection cup

date: second quarter 18th century

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Embroidery sample for a man’s suit

medium: Silk and metal thread on wool

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Nevieve Lytton, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Landscape in the Style of Mi Fu

creator: Dong Qichang

date: dated 1611 and 1612

medium: Handscroll; ink on satin

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Wan-go H. C. Weng, 1955


title: Pocket

medium: linen, wool

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; H. Randolph Lever Fund, 1967


title: Headdress

medium: steel, silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William R. Witherell, 1953


title: Edward James "Big Ed" Delahanty, 2nd Base, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Arrowhead (<i>Yanone</i>)

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

credit_line: The Collection of Giovanni P. Morosini, presented by his daughter Giulia, 1932


title: Band

date: late 15th century (?)

medium: Silk, metal thread

country: Italian (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Costume Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Central coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Central coast

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: New York from the Heights near Brooklyn

creator: William Guy Wall

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954


title: Jar fragment, Amenhotep I

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of the Earl of Carnarvon, 1921


title: Mug

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation, 1951


title: Standing cup with cover

creator: L. T., Nuremburg

date: first half 17th century

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl)

creator: Painter of New York GR 1000

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Boy with Soap Bubbles

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Etching, lavis aquatint, and roulette on laid paper, second state of four

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Kihei Hattori, in memory of his father, Kihei Hattori, 1920


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper, silver, gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, 1943


title: Pinhead

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Studies for a Figure of Saint Francis Kneeling in a Three-Quarter View and for His Hands (recto); Studies for a Figure of Saint Francis Kneeling in Profile (verso)

creator: Annibale Carracci

medium: Red chalk with white chalk highlights, pen and brown ink (recto); red chalk (verso)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an account record (?)

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: John Grass, Blackfeet Sioux, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N36) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Landscape

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Monotype in oil colors, heightened with pastel

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, 1972


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Boxing, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Two Angels

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and green wash, over black chalk on light tan paper

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Painted and Inlaid Game Board

date: late 17th century

medium: Wood; painted, varnished and gilded; with metal hinges

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and Rogers Fund, 1983


title: Glass Fragment

date: 4th–early 5th century

country: Coptic

subjects: Glass Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Marble architectural fragment from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

date: ca. 300 BCE–early 2nd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Architecture
Stone sculpture
Greek or roman

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926


title: Major General A. H. King

creator: Roger Fenton

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Military Telegraphic Corps, Army of the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, purplish-black and red decoration, glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Spear with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood, steel, polychromy, copper, twine, resin

country: Balinese

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Balinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Black Shōki, the Demon Queller

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Charles Stewart Smith Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Charles Stewart Smith Jr., and Howard Caswell Smith, in memory of Charles Stewart Smith, 1914


title: Texas, from Flags of the States and Territories (N11) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Strigil

medium: Iron

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Roman, cypriot

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Cloth

medium: Cotton

country: Guatemala

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Guatemala
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles V. Riley, in memory of her daughter, Mary G. Riley, 1946


title: Miniature goblet

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leonard E. Opdycke, 1913


title: Autumn Poem by Lady Kunaikyō

creator: Hon'ami Kōetsu

medium: Section of a handscroll, mounted as a hanging scroll

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Bottle vase

medium: Porcelain with turqoise blue glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Openwork bead

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Marie Jansen, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Stamp seal (scarab) with monster

date: 9th–7th century BCE or later

medium: Lapis lazuli

country: Phoenician

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Vase Fragment

date: ca. 31 BCE–14 CE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

credit_line: Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Ryan's General Store]

creator: Stronach & Sturtz

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gift of the Shimshak Brenner Family, in memory of Robert Shimshak, 2024


title: Whistle

medium: Wood

country: Mossi or Guronsi People

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Mossi or guronsi people

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of June Fenton and Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. F. Sichel, by exchange, 1982


title: Ray Fish, or Skate, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: Knapp & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


title: Lord High Admiral, Great Britain, from the Naval Flags series (N17) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Spring Fern and Horsetail (obverse); Deer (reverse)

creator: Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō)

medium:
Ceramic, mother-of-pearl, pewter on brown lacquer with sprinkled gold
Ojime: bead; agate
Netsuke: ivory and wood

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan Ferns

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1914


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; white slip; blue and black underglaze; transparent, colorless glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Interior of a Boarding School (?): Hallway with two Young Men and a Dog, with View into Bedroom

creator: Victor

medium: Pen and black ink with gray wash, a yellow wash border framed in black ink is glued on the recto.

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960


title: Seated Neptune holding a conch shell to his mouth, accompanied by a seated triton and another emerging from the water at bottom right

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Print
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Comedy in the Country, Tragedy in London

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Study of Drapery (Probably After the Antique)

creator: Domenico Beccafumi

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 18r)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Fish
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; central coast

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: Square Dish

date: 16th century

medium: Porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze and colored enamels (Imari ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. V. Everit Macy, 1923


title: Terracotta tankard

date: late 8th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of the Greek Government, 1930


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: John Hall

date: 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Panel ornaments (part of a set)

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Key-Handle

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Roman

credit_line: Purchase, De Souhami Collection, Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Tailor riding a goat (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 22r)


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Bateman Group

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The Virgin and Child

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of three


title: “The Flourishing of an English Trading Firm in Yokohama”

creator: Utagawa Yoshiiku

date: 9th month, 1870

medium: Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Head of Silenos

date: 2nd century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Candlestick

creator: Ebenezer Cocker

country: British

credit_line: Gift of John C. Cattus, 1967


title: Idealized Female Head, Copied after the Antique

creator: Johann Evangelist Kastner

date: late 18th–early 19th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: [Ned and Colin Ross with Hunt Trophy]

creator: Horatio Ross

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: AMERICAN MARINE/ G.L.A. & BROS

creator: G. L. Ashworth & Bros. Ltd.

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Mandeville Johnston, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. S. Johnston, 1914


title: Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, Page 8

creator: Anonymous, French

date: 1770 or after

medium: Brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Horn

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 1597–1609 original

medium: Ivory with silver-gilt mountings, rubies

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Horus amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Armory Square Hospital, Interior of Ward K

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Plate

medium: Wood; Beech

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: The Expulsion and Adam and Eve after the Fall (one of a set of three)

date: late 16th century

medium: Canvas worked with wool, silk, and metal thread; chain, split, tent, and straight stitches; applique of woven silk textiles; metal thread braid

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George R. Hann, 1960


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Earflare Frontal

creator: Moche artist

medium: Gold

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979


title: Salt

medium: Lacy pressed green glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Green, in memory of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1951


title: Woman's necktie

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift, Edward M. C. Tower, 1925


title: The Cook and His Wife

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William H. Osborn, in memory of Johnston L. Redmond, 1967


title: [Carpenter and Apprentice]

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005


title: Jar sealing impressed with name of Queen Neithhotep

medium: Clay (fired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Botanical Garden

creator: Unknown

subjects: Botany Photograph

credit_line: Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Calla Lily (Richardia Nethiopica), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers Lilies

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Christ confounding the doctors

creator: Andrea Scacciati

medium: Etching and aquatint in green ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: O Shichi and Kichisaburo

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Standing Saint or Apostle

date: late 14th century

medium: Limestone

country: French

subjects: Sculpture French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven


title: "The Derelict" or "The Lost Boat"

creator: Arthur Wesley Dow

medium: Color woodcut

country: American

credit_line: The Morse Family Foundation Fund, 2016


title: Project for the Monument de la Montagne, Orléans

creator: Claude Mathieu Delagardette

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and pink, gray, blue and peach wash, over graphite underdrawing

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1970


title: Porringer

creator: Timothy Ley

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Bracelet

creator: Tiffany & Co.

credit_line: Purchase, Martha J. Fleischman and Barbara G. Fleischman Gifts, in honor of Beth Carver Wees, 2018


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1914


title: Copper alloy spearhead

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Large Bowl (Hachi) with Flower Medallions

medium: Porcelain with celadon glaze, cobalt-blue patterns under celadon glaze, and iron-painted rim (Hizen ware, Arita type)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan
Flowers

credit_line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975


title: Hôtel-de-Ville

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Door

date: late 15th century

medium: Oak


title: Tankard

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1970


title: Watch

creator: Firm of Rey Frères

medium: Gold, silver

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Lady May Fletcher-Moulton, 1926


title: Bowl

medium: Clay with a streaked glaze (Satsuma ware)

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Panel (Dessus de porte)

medium: Wood, painted and gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Card Table

creator: E. W. Hutchings

medium: Rosewood, maple

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Russell Sage Gift, 1970


title: Cosimo de' Medici the Elder (1389–1464)

credit_line: Bequest of Anne D. Thomson, 1923


title: Page from Eyn Newe kunstlich moetdelboech alle kunst (Page 5r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Male Nude, Study for "Castor and Pollux Freeing Helen"

creator: Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon

medium: Black crayon on off-white laid paper

credit_line: Purchase, Renée Sacks Bequest, 2005


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Head of Guanyin

date: 14th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze brown

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Robert E. Tod, 1938


title: Saucer

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation, 1951


title: Head of a Bearded Old Man in Three-Quarter View Looking Down

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Oil paint on paper, varnished

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Box with the Poet Narihira

date: early 19th century

medium: Black lacquer over copper, inlaid with mother-of-pearl

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: L'Homme qui court après la Fortune et celui qui l'attend dans son lit

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; fifth state of five

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Coin

date: mid-8th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: For Conspicuous Gallantry, granted by Queen Victoria, 1855

creator: William Wyon

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Plate (one of two)

creator: Gottlieb Menzel

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1954


title: Edging

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist in front of a townscape

medium: Sardonyx and gold

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1938


title: The judgment of Paris, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Galloon

date: 18th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Snuffbox

creator: Jacopo Amigoni

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Diablerie: A Satire on the Medical Profession

creator: Andries Both

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Sheet

medium: Linen, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Knife

medium: Steel, horn, brass

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Collar

date: early 18th century

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Polishing Stone (pulidor)

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Teapot Stand

creator: Paul Revere Jr.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Riding crop

medium: Metal, linen, horsehair, leather, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Sarah F. Milligan and Kate Milligan Brill, 1940


title: Shawl

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Augustus Cleveland, 1903


title: Terracotta fragment of a chous (jug)?

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Plate

creator: James Dixon & Sons

medium: Copper, silver-plated

credit_line: Gift of Heathcote Art Foundation, 1986


title: Table knife

medium: Steel, ivory


title: M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula vt iam legi et intelligi possit

creator: Marcus Pollio Vitruvius

medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Cassetta frame

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Bologna

subjects:
Frame
Italian, bologna

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Terracotta pelike (wine jar)

creator: Acheloös Painter

date: ca. 510 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Chess Piece, Pawn

date: 9th–14th century

medium: Jet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Charles Hay Cameron, Esq., in His Garden at Freshwater

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Hunt of the Caledonian Boar

creator: Auguste Bretoneau

medium: Gold, painted enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


medium: Terracotta


title: Fish slice

subjects: Fish Metalwork-silver

credit_line: Bequest of Adeline R. Brown, 1947


title: Jupiter, seated above two eagles and embracing Cupid, a round composition from a series of mythological scenes after Polidoro da Caravaggio

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Italian, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: The Flagellation

creator: Italian, Veneto

date: early 16th century

medium: Metalpoint, brush and gray wash, touches of white, on gray prepared paper

country: Italian (Veneto)

subjects:
Drawing
Italian (veneto)


title: Ceremonial Armors for Man (<i>Dingjia</i>) and Horse

medium: Steel, copper, gold, silk, leather, hair

subjects:
Armor for man
Chinese

credit_line: armor: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935; sword: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Dinner dress

creator: Madame Elise

medium: silk, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Gift of Mary Pierrepont Beckwith, 1969


title: Man's Fortitude

creator: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2011


title: Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 9 (recto)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: The Morning

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Medea Kills her Two Children by Jason (Pour qui d'Absyrte a le sang repandu, fait que du sien le tort lui soit rendu...), from "Jason and the Golden Fleece"

creator: René Boyvin


title: Stela of the Lady of the House, Tabiemmut

medium: Wood, paint, gesso

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Masked Man using a Lantern to Collect Discarded Pamphlets by a Tombstone, from "Le Charivari"

creator: Benard

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: Wall painting fragment

date: 1st century CE

medium: Fresco

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-painting Roman

credit_line: Gift of Miss A. Rivier, 1930


title: Compote

creator: Bryce Brothers

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: The Nuttall Collection, Gift of Mrs. Magdalena Nuttall, 1908


title: Petticoat

medium: silk, cotton, wool

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Brooklyn Museum Collection


creator: Dokimasia Painter

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Standing cup

creator: Reinhold Vasters

date: second half 19th century

medium: Rock crystal cut on the wheel, and enameled gold.

subjects: Jewelry, precious metal and precious stone

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bronze eyelet-type pin

date: ca. 14th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Bronze Mycenaean

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Newes Modelbuch in Kupffer  (Page 61r)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

credit_line: Gift of Charles R. Richards, 1929


title: Constance Queniaux

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: Beaker with archer and bull

date: ca. 10th–9th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1948


title: Panel

date: ca. 1520–50 and later

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Maurice Blin, 1981


title: The Palace at Westminster: King Henry and the Prince of Wales (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 4)

creator: Robert Thew

date: first published 1795; reissued 1852

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: John Wesley "Jack" Glassock, Shortstop, Indianapolis, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


creator: Antiphon Painter


title: Design amulet, Cow and Calf on the Back, Device showing Antithetical Falcons Flanking an Ankh Sign over a Crouching Lion

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: The Actor Otani Oniji III

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Henry L. Phillips Collection, Bequest of Henry L. Phillips, 1939


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Tapestry

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Cowroid ring

medium: Glazed steatite, linen string

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Bronze statuette of a dancing Lar

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Bracelet

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Copper, bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961


title: Fragment of a terracotta relief with two horses

date: 6th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Gendang

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, snakeskin, rattan

country: Bornean

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / conical drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Adoration of the Magi

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Ciborium for the Coronation of Napoléon I

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brush and gray and reddish-brown wash

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2013


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Flowering Tree

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Flounce

date: early 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: The Mabel Metcalf Fahnestock Collection, the gift of Ruth Fahnestock Schermerhorn and Faith Fahnestock, 1933


title: Relief Fragment with Acanthas Leaf Design

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Coptic

subjects: Coptic Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Limestone head of a snake

date: probably 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Bacchic revel with Silenus in the centre riding a goat

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching with plate tone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: The Virgin and Child, God the father upper right, angels at left

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Saint Cecilia playing the organ surrounded by putti

creator: Schelte Adams à Bolswert

medium: Engraving; third state of three

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Evening gloves

medium: cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Randolph H. Nexsen, 1944


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1911


title: Sketch of a Fairy or Spirit Emerging from a Shell

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Drawing
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956


title: Sympathy, or A Family On A Journey Laying The Dust

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 108 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: The Country Dance (Small Plate)

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

medium: Etching; third state of seven (Mannocci)

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Annotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia...

creator: Hieronymus Natalis

medium: plates: engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

creator: Choying Dorje (the Tenth Karmapa)

date: 17th century

medium: Ivory

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Louis V. Bell and Dodge Funds, 1972


title: Mercury and Argus, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first state of five

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1918


title: Portrait of Madame Gavaudan

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Yellow Chrysanthemums on a Blue Ground

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Frontispiece to "The Humours of Oxford"

creator: William Hogarth

date: November 1, 1807

credit_line: Gift of A. E. Popham, 1949


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Hans Wechtlin

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut in two blocks

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Design for Stained Glass: A Halbardier by an Unfinished Coat of Arms

creator: Hans Jakob Plepp

medium: Pen and black ink and gray wash

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2000


title: Arthur Albert "Doc" Irwin, Shortstop, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Knife Blade (Kozuka)

medium: Steel, wood, gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936


title: George Washington

creator: Desprez Jr.

medium: Glass, porcelain

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Ewer

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration under dark blue glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Teabowl

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stoneware with brownish black glaze (Jian type ware)

country: China (?)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta Eros

date: 1st half of the 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, probably Attic

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, probably attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Black Eye, Blackfeet Sioux, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Winged putto whipping a satyr

creator: H. Cooke, Sr.

medium: Etching (reverse copy)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Venus with Doves

creator: Bartolomeo Pinelli

medium: Pen and ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms: Industry and Idleness, plate 1

date: September 30, 1747

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Hairpin

medium: Lamp-worked colorless glass, gilt, wth clear trailed decoration and green and red "jewels," and copper wire.

country: probably Italian (Venice); possibly Innsbruck

subjects: Jewelry, precious metal and precious stone

subjects: Probably italian (venice); possibly innsbruck

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Figure

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of K. Aharonian, 1910


title: Bonnet

medium: silk

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Eleanor W. Taber, 1944


title: King Arthur

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

date: September 1874

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952


title: Head Pendant

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Plaster (painted)

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Panel with Virgin and Child

date: 14th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: French

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915


title: Shard

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1992


title: View of the Bay and Harbor of New York, from Gowanus Heights, Brooklyn

creator: William Henry Bartlett

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954


title: Senwosret (?), Oil jar

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Bowl of Sand

medium: Pottery, sand

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: The Lewitha

creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: Offering table, hand

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Unknown Actress, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: The Betrayal of Christ

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011