title: Fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Job and his Daughters

creator: William Blake

medium: Engraving

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: Gift of Edward Bement, 1917


title: Banknote vignette with a family in a garden

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving and etching; proof

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


title: Sow Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Square and Band

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Isabelle Coe, 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

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


title: [Arch of Septimus Severus, Rome]

creator: Unknown

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1946


title: Man and Woman Walking

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: The Trimmed Groves

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

date: 17th century

medium: Etching, first state of six, proof with corrections in pen and ink and gray wash on the humock lower right, in the foliage for example

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Blackwork Print with a Symmetric Grotesque Pattern

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

medium: Blackwork

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

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


title: View of the Monastery in Tegernsee seen from the north-east

creator: Johann Georg von Dillis

date: late 18th–mid 19th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2009


title: Seated Preaching Buddha

date: 9th century

medium: Andesite

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1982


title: A woman with her ams open surrounded by figures in elegant dress

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Small wig rings of Sithathoryunet

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Henry Walters Gift, 1916


title: Square


title: Stamp seal (scarab) with monster

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Phoenician

credit_line: Gift of David Dows, 1945


title: Two Plates

date: late 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Wedjat Eye Amulet

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


title: Two girls walking towards the left, seen from behind, a woman on a horse to left in background, plate 3 from "Diversi capricci"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of four

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Salvator Rosa, from "Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds"

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

date: December 8, 1778

subjects: Print Roses

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Counter tray for the "kitty" in the card game of Quadrille (part of a set)

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James M. Kellogg, in memory of her husband, 2023


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


title: Bearded Man in a Toga (from Sketchbook)

creator: Francis William Edmonds

date: ca. 1838 and after

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Scarab of Hatnefer

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Music Box

medium: Various materials

country: Swiss

subjects: Idiophone Swiss

credit_line: Gift of Murtogh D. Guinness, 1976


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Grec des Isles de l'Archipel, joüant du Taboura, plate 70 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: [James Francis Danby]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Jewelry Box

medium: Faience inlay, modern wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, medium weave

medium: Linen


title: Religious text of Tanaweruow, daughter of Hartophnakhthes and Tatita

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1931


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: Silver denarius of Brutus

date: 54 BCE

medium: Silver

country: Roman

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Passion for Love

creator: Jean Audran

medium: Etching; second state

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957


title: Terracotta fragment of a bowl

date: 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Coin

date: dated 375 AH/985 CE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Upper Portion and Head of Vishnu

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Phyllitic schist

country: India (Jammu & Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir)

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Vest

medium: cotton

country: probably British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. Lukach, 1950


title: Comb

date: 19th century

medium: metal (brass), glass

country: probably French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ridgely Hunt, in memory of William Cruger Pell, 1906


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, silver, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Femme du Canton

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Mortar

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Bronze; cast and engraved, inlaid with copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: The Banquet of the Rich Man, plate 1 from "The Parable of Dives and Lazarus" (La Parabole du mauvais Riche et de Lazare)

creator: Abraham Bosse

date: mid to late 17th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Vase

date: mid-19th century

medium: Porcelain with polychrome overglaze enamels and overglaze gold (Kyoto ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Tea Spoon

creator: Teunis Denise Dubois

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Tassel

medium: Metal thread


title: Pelerine

country: European

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1986


title: Group of four vases

medium: Electrum, gilded silver, silver

country: Northwest Anatolian

subjects:
Gold and silver
Northwest anatolian

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Asia

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Design for a Stained Glass Window

creator: Christoph Murer

medium: Pen and black ink, gray and light brown-gray wash

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1994


title: Page from Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Kate Uart, from the Actresses series (N67) promoting Dixie Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Photolithograph

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


title: Coin

date: dated 360 AH/970–971 CE


title: Textile fragment

date: 16th century

medium: leather

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

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


title: Ewer

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Profile Portrait of a Woman

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Graphite, red and black chalk, with touches of blue wash

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Elephant, from the Wild Animals of the World series (N25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Plate with Calligraphic Decoration

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with black slip decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1967


title: Card table

medium: Mahogany

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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Yoshizawa Iroha as a Woman (Tomoe Gozen?) Standing on the Bank

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Covered Tripod

medium: Bronze, malachite, copper, silver

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of George Coe Graves, 1931


title: A Shepherdess with Her Flock

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Conté crayon with stumping on laid paper

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fragment of a Carved Panel with Stars

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pottery Whistle

medium: clay

country: Costa Rican

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Costa rican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Card Number 154, Sadie Cortelyou, 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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Sheet with striped background with diamond pattern and arrows

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Harshang Carpet

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1968


title: Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai Sketchbooks, volume 8 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, hachihen)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


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

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


title: Teapot with portraits of King George III (1738–1820) and Queen Charlotte (1744–1818)

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramics-pottery Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, in memory of his wife Helen Lefferts Macy, 1937


title: Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Angel

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta head; wooden limbs and wings; body of wire wrapped in tow; various fabrics

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: United States, from the National Flags series (N195) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Amateur

creator: Attilio Simonetti

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


title: Walking boots

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Grace Coleman, 1927


title: Ceiling Design with the Glorification of the Name of Jesus (recto); Aurora and Cephalus (verso)

creator: Lorenzo de' Ferrari

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, on blue-gray paper (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk (verso)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Portrait of a Lady

creator: John Carlin

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: Fragment from a Post or Lintel with Leaves Branching from a Running Vine

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


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


title: Merman (one of six)

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, silver

credit_line: Purchase, The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund and Gift of Mrs. Harold D. Shattuck, by exchange, 1982


title: Ear Stud

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1923


title: Inscribed fragment, Akhenaten and Nefertiti cartouches

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Lace pillow

date: 20th century

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Frau William Kubasek, 1907


title: The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring, from the Illustrated Songs series (N116) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

subjects: Print Flowers


title: Delaware Water Gap '64 (Mount Tammany) (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Hewes Hinckley

medium: Graphite on green tinted-paper

credit_line: Purchase, Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund and Gifts in memory of  Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Raspberries, from the Fruits series (N12) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects: Print Fruits


title: Adam and Eve

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Candlestick

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Sue K. Feld and Stuart P. Feld, 2019


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Portative Organ

creator: Leopoldo Franciolini

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, various materials

country: Italian

subjects: Aerophone-organ Italian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Oliver Wendell "Patsy" Tebeau, 3rd Base, Chicago, 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: Whitacre, Pitcher, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Map of China

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Eight hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk

subjects:
Maps & charts
Painting
China

credit_line: Gift of Yamanaka & Co., 1925


title: Corset

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: The Jacqueline Loewe Fowler Costume Collection, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 1982


title: Vue de la première Cataracte, prise à l'Ouest, entre Assouan et Philae

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Set of three keyhole escutcheons

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Scale from Armor

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: The Annunciation

creator: Master FVB

date: late 15th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1925


title: Plate 46: Theatrical agent, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: Scraper

medium: Nephrite, spinach-green

country: North America (Alaska)

subjects:
Jade
North america (alaska)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Armed Men

creator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones

medium: Graphite, heightened with white chalk, on brown paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Breech-Loading Needlefire Rifle

creator: R. Berger

medium: Steel, wood, horn

country: German, Köthen

subjects:
Firearm
German, köthen

credit_line: Gift of Eric Vaule, in memory of Anne Lyman Vaule, 1998


title: Key

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

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


title: Vase

creator: William J. Walley

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a liver omen

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Elongated Stone Labret with Face

date: before 15th century

medium: Stone

country: Peruvian

subjects: Stone-ornament Peruvian

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


title: Hanging or Bed Cover

date: late 18th century

medium: Cotton; pounced and painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Ornament

country: Korea

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: The Union of the Wye with the Severn from Chepstow, from "Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales, in the year 1797"

creator: John Hill

date: September 1799

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Snuff bottle with god of longevity and deer

medium: Rock crystal with tourmaline stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Minerals & gems


title: Part of a panel ornament

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze


title: Tonggu

date: before 1889

country: Chinese (possibly Yunnan Province)

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-gong
Chinese (possibly yunnan province)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Saint George Killing the Dragon

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Sleeve band

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Five images showing the processes of manufacturing glass

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite, white chalk, pen and ink, on gray paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957


title: Group of columns which support two arches of a great courtyard... (Gruppo di Colonne, che regge due archi d'un grande Cortile...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: John Ewing, Pitcher, Louisville Colonels, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Cedars of Lebanon

creator: Antoine-Alphonse Montfort

medium: Oil on paper, laid down on canvas

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 2025


title: Terracotta jug

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

date: ca. 530 BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Cast Gold Double-Eagle Pendant

date: 7th–16th century

medium: Gold (cast)

country: Costa Rica

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Costa rica

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977


title: Donkey

creator: Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk and gray wash. Ruled border in pen and brown ink. Laid down.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on felt

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Necklace Comprising Nine Leaf-Shaped Pendants

date: second half of the 9th–first quarter of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: The Samuel Eilenberg-Jonathan P. Rosen Collection of Indonesian Gold, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg and Gift of Jonathan P. Rosen, 1998


title: Incense burner with cover

medium: Nephrite, spinach-green, translucent and bright

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Miniature covered jar

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Sadajiro Yamanaka, 1911


title: Alice Butler and Annie Boyd, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Salt Shovel

creator: Nehemiah Norcross

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Mrs. E. Hunt

creator: Carl Weinedel

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Le Départ (Le Retour), from Le Voyage en bateau

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching on heavy wove paper; third and final state

credit_line: Gift of Dr. David T. and Anne Wikler Mininberg, in celebration of Anne's 75th birthday, 2012


title: Plate 6: Six hands, from "The Book for Learning to Draw" (Livre pour apprendre à dessiner)

creator: Stefano della Bella

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Strip

medium: Knitted lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: "He smothers her": plate 13 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

creator: Théodore Chassériau

date: etched 1844, reprinted 1900

medium: Etching and engraving on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

creator: Wang Gai

date: first edition printed in 1679

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Figure 3: The face of an old man... photographed in repose.

creator: Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation Gift, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors; Harris Brisbane Dick and William E. Dodge Funds; and W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift, 2013


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Design for a Wall Elevation with Halved Alternate Designs for the Doorway (recto); Designs for a Quarter of a Ceiling, Design for a Wall Elevation (verso)

creator: Leonardo Marini

medium: Pen and gray ink over black chalk with ruled and compass construction

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Calligraphic Exercise in Spanish

creator: Anonymous

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and black and brown ink.

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Cup with butterflies and melons

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

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Plate 25: Philip crowned King of Spain by his father, Charles V; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

creator: Anton van der Does

medium: Engraving

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


title: One of the Sons of Noah who Goes to Populate a Part of the Earth (Uno de figli di Noè che va a popolare una parte della terra)

creator: Pietro Monaco

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Landscape

creator: Sōami

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, 1959


title: Joined Figures

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Sumatra?)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (sumatra )

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg, 1998


title: Democritus and Heraclitus

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; not by Hollar

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Niagara Falls—Table Rock by Moonlight

creator: Pavel Petrovich Svinin

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and sgraffito on white wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: View of a Country House

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Card Number 633, Celie Ellis, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bowl

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nabataean

credit_line: Gift of the American Expedition to Petra, 1967


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Bone or ivory fragments

date: 6th–4th centuries? BCE

medium: Bone

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Terracotta bridge-spouted jar

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1911


title: Mlle. Myrrh, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Wall hanging fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Leather, gilded and painted; frame: wood, painted and gilded

credit_line: Gift of Dalva Brothers Inc., 1927


title: The Industrious 'Prentice Lord Mayor of London: Industry and Idleness, plate 12

creator: William Hogarth

date: September 30, 1747

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Box with lid and handle

medium: Gourd (?)

subjects: Woodwork China

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


title: Frank Scheibeck, Shortstop, Detroit Wolverines, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Plasma (translucent quartz)

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1962


title: Helmet (Hachi)

medium: Iron, leather, lacquer, gold

country: Japanese

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Figure

date: 1st–5th century

country: Tolita-Tumaco

subjects:
Bone/ivory-ornament
Tolita-tumaco
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Margaret B. Zorach, 1980


title: 周順昌印

medium: Unalloyed silver

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of Robert James Sistrunk, 1982


title: Umbel Pendant

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Fragment

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Edwin Atwood, 1932


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Pair of lappets

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

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


title: Domitian, from The Twelve Caesars, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Beads

date: 9th–12th century

medium: Chalcedony; cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pedestal jar with two handles

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Stoneware

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Paul Singer Gift and Rogers Fund, 1991


title: Design for decorative border to a ceiling with a putto carrying a basket of flowers

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite and watercolor on wove paper; mounted on cardboard

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing
Flowers

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Base, engaged with animal

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Vehicles on the Streets of Tokyo

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1960


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: A Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid

creator: Gerard ter Borch the Younger

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Vieux mendiant

creator: Raimund von Stillfried

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Virgins Awaking Cupid

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste biscuit porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Bowl (part of a service)

creator: Caughley Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Garbat, 1961


title: Florence Brandon, 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

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


title: Saint Anne and the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels

creator: Niccolò Alunno (Niccolò di Liberatore)

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Four Scenes from the Old Testament

creator: Paul Decker the Younger

date: early 18th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2007


title: Solitaire Game

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Giovanni Caroto (1495?–1555), Veronese Painter

creator: Giulio della Torre

date: 16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Female Bust

creator: Joseph-Charles Marin

medium: Terracotta, on green marble pedastal.


title: Page from a Book of Omens

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India

subjects: Painting India

credit_line: Gift of Daniel J. Slott, 1977


title: Study for Tree Trunks and Lane

creator: John Crome

medium: Graphite (recto); soft ground etching (verso)

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Pomegranate textile

creator: Associated Artists

medium: Silk and cotton, woven

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Boudinot Keith, 1928


title: Drawing of an Angel

medium: Ink and gold on paper

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 2004


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1930


title: Card Number 392, Annie Bonneu, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Armchair seat

creator: Beauvais

medium: Wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1935


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum, 1953


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: Landscape with Figures

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, on parchment, washed.  Drawing for an engraving

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: August Strindberg

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Bookplate of Thomas Dering

creator: Nathaniel Hurd

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of William E. Baillie, 1920


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

medium: Steel, copper wire

country: hilt, Spanish; blade, German

subjects:
Sword
Hilt, spanish; blade, german

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Photolithograph

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


title: Rattle

date: late 19th century

medium: various materials

country: Congolese (Ngala)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekanis (dish)


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


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


title: Design for a Monumental Altar, plate G from "Unterschiedliche Neu Inventierte Altäre mit darzu gehörigen Profillen u. Grundrißen"

creator: Johann Michael Leüchte

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: The Virgin and Child with Saint John, a round composition

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


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


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Mereri

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Lotus bowl with ladies

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Profile Bust of James Sullivan

creator: John Christian Rauschner

medium: Wax, glass, wood

credit_line: The Glenn Tilley Morse Collection, Bequest of Glenn Tilley Morse, 1950


title: Cover

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-brocade

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Textile Fragment

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Linen and silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Reverse frame

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Rome

subjects:
Frame
Italian, rome

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sampler

medium: Silk and wool on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Ebisu and Benten Walking in the Snow

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro

medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

country: Japan

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: A mathematician seated at a table, working on mathematical equations, plate 34 from a portfolio of prints of the Imperial Gallery of Paintings in Vienna

creator: Anton Joseph von Prenner

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Sampler

creator: Gesina Hendrica Galman

medium: Silk on linen


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of the Members of the Committee of the Bertha King Benkard Memorial Fund, 1946


title: Transparent glass scaraboid

medium: Glass, transparent

country: Greek, Ionian

subjects:
Gems
Greek, ionian
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Jug

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Cope

date: early 17th century

medium: Cotton; embroidered in tasar or muga silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1923


title: Tassel

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, 1921


title: Terracotta fragment of a mug, oinochoe, shape 8

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: A Bejewelled Maiden with a Parakeet

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 2011


title: George Frederick "Doggie" Miller, Catcher, Pittsburgh, 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: Vignette from the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles

creator: Bernard Picart

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Richard A. Berman, 2018


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Jacques Etienne Pannier

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Dress Chariot (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Vase Fragment

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Vase
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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


title: Tunic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Nasca (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Valley with Fir (Shade on the Mountain)

creator: Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Costume Plate: Woman with Hooded Garment

creator: Enea Vico

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Portrait of Cesare Bonesana, Marchese di Beccaria

creator: Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio

medium: Brush and brown wash over graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Morocco, from the Natives in Costume series (N16), Teofani Issue, for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fork

date: 18th century

medium: Steel, buckshorn, brass

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, brass, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Arrowhead

date: ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Bequest of Adra M. Newell, 1966


title: Fiore D'Ogni Virtu Per le Nobili Et Honeste Matrone, page 19 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Incense Burner

date: 12th century

medium: Brass; cast, pierced, chased

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Une chèvre et quatre moutons

creator: Gilles Demarteau

medium: Crayon-manner etching printed in red ink

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


title: The Prince of Wales Presiding at a Meeting, held at South Kensington Museum, of the Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition, from "Illustrated London News"

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: January 19, 1867

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019


title: Terracotta pyxis (box)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, brocaded


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: ivory

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: late 3rd–early 1st century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

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


title: James Henry O'Rourke, 3rd Base, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

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


title: The Army of the Potomac – Our Outlying Picket in the Woods (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VI)

creator: Winslow Homer

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


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: Comb

medium: metal

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Art Worker's Club, 1945


title: Scarab of Thutmose III

medium: Blue glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Portrait of a young woman seated

creator: Thomas Gainsborough

medium: Black chalk with touches of red wash

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Christine Burgin and Donald Young Foundation Gifts, 2012


title: Vase

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


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


title: Sixteenth-century-style pendant

date: 19th century

medium: Crystal, gold, enamel, pearls

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Creamer

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Hanging by Toes, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Flask

date: 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Butterflies in Flight above Flowering Clematis

medium: Lacquer, roiro, nashiji, gold foil, aogai inlay; Interior: red lacquer, nashiji and fundame

subjects:
Inrō
Japan
Butterflies & moths

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


title: Model for the Tomb of Géricault

creator: Antoine Etex

date: after 1840

medium: Patinated plaster

credit_line: Purchase, H. Rodes and Patricia Hart Gift and Gifts in memory of B. Gerald Cantor, 2004


title: Cowroid Stamp Seal Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Charles-Juste, Prince de Beauvau

creator: Jean-Baptiste Nini

medium: Medallion: cast terracotta (terre de Chaumont); frame: gilt wood

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1952


title: Bronze ring

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Specimen of the Atlantic Cable

medium: Metal

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Clearing Weather after Snow at Massaki

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan


title: Design for a Church Gate

creator: Richardson Ellson & Co.

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash and watercolor

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


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

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


title: Glass bowl

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

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Card Number 218, Evans, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Javelin or Spear

medium: Shafted Weapons

country: Indian

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Indian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1912


title: Tomb Slab with an Angel and Coat of Arms

date: 19th century (14th century style)

medium: White marble and black marble with paint and gilding

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Cover for eye or belly button

medium: Gold sheet

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


title: Marble portrait of the emperor Caracalla

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1940


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: Architectural Drawing for a Chapel

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Roman, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray and pink washes

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Flowerpot

creator: Tucker Factory

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Brooch with Assyrian human-headed winged bull

medium: Gold, glass

country: British

credit_line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023


title: Myriad Birds:A Playful Poetry Contest (Momo chidori kyōka-awase), 2 vols.

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Two volumes; woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan
Birds

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


title: Red Fox, from the Wild Animals of the World series (N25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes(drinking cups)

date: 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: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Diana and Actaeon

creator: Bartholomeus Spranger

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, white heightening, over traces of black chalk, on paper washed blue and pink

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997


title: Vase with birds and flowers

medium: Porcelain painted inpolychrome enamels over black ground (Jingdezhen ware, famille noire)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917


title: Tea caddy spoon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 10r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Landau #3294

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)


title: Arm Band with Man's Head

date: first quarter of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1992


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Anna Thalman, 1934


title: Design for a Portion of Cornice and Ceiling

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with red wash, over leadpoint or graphite; ruled lines in leadpoint or graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Spearhead

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel

country: Turkish

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Turkish

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: The Virgin Nursing the Christ Child, in a Glory of Angels (recto); Studies for seated figures of Christ and God the Father in red chalk (verso)

creator: Nicola Maria Rossi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk. Verso: faint red chalk studies for seated figures of Christ and God the Father seen in steep perspective

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Fragment

date: late 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Covered Vase

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Fish hook

medium: Bone

subjects:
Fish
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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: [Deodars at Annandale, Simla]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005


title: Lady Kesa from kuchie (frontispiece) of a novel

creator: Tomioka Eisen

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Bracteate Pendant

medium: Gilded copper alloy

country: Vendel

subjects: Metalwork-copper Vendel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1984


title: The Stay-Maker

creator: Joseph Haynes

date: February 1, 1782

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Dish with cover (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: The Toper's Mistake

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Empress of Japan, from World's Sovereigns series (N34) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Cup

creator: Meissen Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Bronze dipping or stirring rod

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Basin with tray

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver on base metal, partly gilt

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: The Farrier

creator: Aert van der Neer

date: early or mid-1650s

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Waistcoat

date: 18th century

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Gift of Walter Maynard, 1960


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Sample

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Square 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: Six-lobed bowl

date: early 12th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2009


title: Saint John (one of four)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silk and metal-wrapped thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


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

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


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: Various figures of horse ballet

creator: Stefano della Bella

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Allegory of Winter

creator: Jacques de La Joue the Younger

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Mythology Painting

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Armor (<i>Gusoku</i>)

medium: Iron, lacquer, gold, silver, copper alloy, leather, silk

subjects:
Armor for man
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Woman Carrying Basket (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Ink on off-white laid paper

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


title: Piece

date: 10th century

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: Two sea gods accompanied by four nymphs

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

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


title: Saltcellar

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Purchase, 1873


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3556

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Canopic Chest Lid Fragment

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: [Landscape with Buddha Sculpture]

creator: Suzuki Shin'ichi

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

subjects: Photograph Landscapes

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Figure of Harpy

date: 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque white glaze, molded and applied decoration

credit_line: Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Double Capital

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: J.B. Haggin, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22a) 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

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Steatite triangular prism

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Snuff Bottle with Figures in a Garden

medium: Painted enamel on glass

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1951


title: Seashell, from the Novelties series (N122) issued by Gail & Ax Tobacco to promote Navy Long Cut

creator: Gail & Ax Tobacco


title: Box

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Nancy V. McClelland, 1918


title: Title Page, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite; first state of nine (Robison)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Sumida River Holiday

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Steel, 1960


title: IIIe Vue du Parc de Neu-Waldeck prise du Pavillon Chinois vers le Couchant, from Views of the Park and Gardens of Marshal Count de Lacy at Neu-waldegg

creator: Jakob Matthias Schmutzer

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009


title: Ice Cream Slicer and 10 Ice Cream Spoons

creator: Kidney, Cann & Johnson

medium: Silver and silver-gilt

credit_line: Gift of D. Frederick Baker and the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2016


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: The Slave of Fashion (published in "Harper's Bazar," April 20, 1878)

creator: Thomas Nast

date: originally published 1878

medium: Relief print and electrotype

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast, 1933


title: Madonna and Child with Two Angels

creator: Cosimo Rosselli

date: early 1480s

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

credit_line: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931


title: Pair of wall sconces

medium: Gilt gesso on pine, gilt bronze and silk embroidery

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Slippers

medium: leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Donald Ordway, 1952


title: Squatting Figure

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg, 1998


title: Landscape

creator: George Inness

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967


title: Pickle Dish

medium: Stoneware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Vase

creator: Thomas J. Wheatley

medium: Earthenware

country: American

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


title: Length

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Gift of Everfast Fabrics Inc., 1969


title: Crochet Work

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sword

date: 5th–4th century BCE

country: Chinese

subjects: Sword Chinese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Length

creator: Demarne

credit_line: Gift of Mildred R. Mottahedeh, 1984


title: The Dragon Devouring  the Companions of Cadmus

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Design for Curtains and Rod

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Brush and ink wash over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Reverse Cassetta frame

date: mid-17th century

medium: Pine

country: Southern Italy

subjects:
Frame
Southern italy

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Panel of George Washington

creator: J. R.

medium: Silk, woven

country: French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Funerary relief

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Purchase, 1901


title: Medal:  Bust of Gianbattista Orsini

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium:
Bronze (Copper alloy with warm brown
patina).

country: Italian, Rome

subjects:
Medal
Italian, rome


title: L'Attaque de la Diligence (The Attack of the Stagecoach), from Les Misères et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre (The Miseries and Misfortunes of War), plate 8

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Figure Pendant

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bone

country: Valdivia

subjects:
Bone/ivory-ornament
Valdivia
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Joyce R. Strauss, 1994


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a skyphos (deep 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


title: Sketch of a Tree Branch (from Sketchbook VII)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

subjects: American Trees

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


title: Heligoland, 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: Weaver's comb

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


title: body with garment, pleating

medium: Siliceous indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Full Mask (Sōmen) depicting Crow-nosed Goblin (Tenqu) with Gorget

medium: Iron, lacquer, leather, brass, textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Wedding dress

medium: silk, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969


title: A River in a Meadow

creator: Théodore Rousseau

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, at Rome

creator: Richard Cooper II

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Abbott and Holder Ltd., 2023


title: Pastime in Ancient Egypt

creator: Charles William Sharpe

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015


title: Crystal Drinking Glass

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

subjects:
Print
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1917


title: Snuff Bottle with Two Monkeys and Rock

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Rock crystal with coral stopper

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: The Isle of Cythera

creator: Jérôme François Chantereau

credit_line: Purchase, The Howard Bayne Fund Gift, 1984


title: Bottle

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Body of a sphinx

medium: Greenish faience

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1990


title: Kris with Sheath

medium: Steel, wood, cane (rattan)

country: Philippine, Moro

subjects:
Krisse
Philippine, moro


title: Fragment

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Laces

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. D. Storrs, 1913


title: Sash

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Paul V. Harper, 1951


title: Steamship Bostonian, Leyland Line, from the Ocean and River Steamers series (N83) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Sig. Lucia - Trastullo, from "Balli di Sfessania" (Dance of Sfessania)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Hellenistic-style head

date: 200 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Henri Lehmann

creator: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Fan

medium: Wood, paper, wool, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Ellen M. Austen, 1915


title: Edward the Martyr

creator: Andrea Casali

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Pug dog

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973


title: Newfoundland, from the Dogs of the World series for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Figures Watching a Display of Fireworks at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome (recto); A Distant View of the Fireworks Seen from a Villa Garden (verso)

creator: Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

medium: Pen and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink over leadpoint or graphite (verso)

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Williams, 2000


title: Rectangular Plaque

date: middle of 6th century

medium: Copper alloy, gold foil inlay?

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cuneiform tablet: account statement, Egibi archive

date: ca. 6th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1879


title: Stockings

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1937


title: May Danforth, Corsair Co./ Florence Baker, Corsair Co./ Maud Waldemere, Corsair Co./ Verona, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 4) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


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


title: Possible trial piece depicting a lion-headed deity

date: 1st century CE

medium: Stone


title: Portrait of a Woman with a Veil

creator: Wallerant Vaillant

date: 17th century

medium: Mezzotint; second state of two

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: The Forum Romanum, or Campo Vaccino, from the capitol, with the Arch of Septimus Severus in the foreground left, Temple of Vespian right, and the Colosseum in the distance (Veduta di Campo Vaccino), from "Vedute di Roma"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Rouen, from the City Flags series (N6) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: Eaux Fortes Nouvelles

creator: François-Nicolas Chifflart

medium: Etching on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Figure

date: ca. 1st–2nd century A.D

medium: Ceramic

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: The First Day of Spring (Risshun), from the series Fashionable Poetic Immortals of the Four Seasons (Fūzoku shiki Kasen)

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

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: Two Mothers with Children (Die Kinderaue)

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Vase

creator: Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, 1976


title: Hope, from the Cardinal Virtues

creator: Nicolaes de Bruyn

medium: Engraving, first state of two.


title: Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline Laying the Earthwire on July 21st, 1865

creator: Robert Charles Dudley

medium: Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Study for Victory (from Sketchbook)

creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Edward R. Grove, 1985


title: Iconographic Drawing of the Wisdom King Daiitoku (Daiitoku Myōō)

date: 12th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting 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: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: last quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Bottle

medium: Pottery decorated in the paste and covered with a thin glaze (Bizen ware, Imbe style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Stone Pines, Villa Pamfili Doria, Rome

creator: Jane Martha St. John

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: Stencil

date: 19th century

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Nagakubo Station

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

credit_line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Mirror Handle: Standing Woman

date: ca. 1st century BCE

medium: Phyllitic schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

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


title: Pochette

creator: Georg Wörle

medium: Spruce, ebony, ivory, gut

country: German

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted German

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, 2004


title: Immortal Liu Hai playing with a frog

date: 18th century

medium: Soapstone

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Bowl with archaistic phoenixes

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

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a text containing incantations

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Painted Jar

date: 1st–6th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis Neal, 1970


title: Relief fragment from a procession of attendants - see 31.3.1-1

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold, sapphire, pearls

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-gold Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Beads

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Carnelian, faience, bone, pyrite, shell, glass

country: Iran

subjects:
Iran
Shells & molluscs
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Model Lotus Flower

medium: Painted and plastered wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Short Coat for Image (?)

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Gilbert H. Montague, in memory of Amy Angell Collier Montague, 1961


title: Textile Fragment

date: 9th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Artist's Family

creator: Pierre Henri

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Martha J. Fleischman Gift, in memory of Keren-Or Bernbaum, 2000


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Priest's Robe and Stole

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: By exchange, 1954


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes: Band or lip cups (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta


title: Oinochoe

date: 7th–6th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Carnelian ring stone

date: ca. early 3rd century CE

medium: Carnelian

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Eugénie Schlosser et Coralli

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Louis XIV as Dauphin

creator: Grégoire Huret

date: 17th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Saint John Nepomuk Praying

creator: Georg Anton Urlaub

medium: Pen and brown ink and brown wash, white heightening

credit_line: Purchase, The Chester Dale Collection, Bequest of Chester Dale, by exchange, 2000


title: Medal Showing John, Second Duke of Montagu

medium: Bronze

country: Swiss

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
Swiss

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1922


title: Scipio Granting Clemency to the Prisoners

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Etching and engraving; second state

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


title: Cither Banjo

creator: Karl Schamal

medium: brass, parchment, wire

country: Austrian

subjects: Chordophone Austrian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Carving the Moon, Opening the Clouds

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Ink

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Stencil

date: early 19th century

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: Mummy Cloth Fragment of Djedptahefankh

medium: Linen


title: Counterproof of an impression from a name plate for Edward D. Adams

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1921


title: Shard:  Offerer with Flower

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Andrew Hale and Kate Fitz Gibbon, 1992


title: Small Magical Stela with Shed dedicated by Nesamenemopet, son of Djedkhonsuiufankh

medium: Anhydrite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Plate 5: Neptune standing in a niche holding a trident, with a hippocampus (sea-horse) behind him, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

creator: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Cup with ring handle

date: 8th century

medium: Gilt bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of John M. Crawford Jr., in memory of Joseph H. Heil, 1974


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience


title: Governor McEnery, Louisiana, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-1), issued by Duke Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Marc Antonio Memmo, Doge of Venice (1546?–1615, doge 1612–15)

creator: Guillaume Dupré

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: Portrait of Miss L...,or A Door Must Be Either Open or Closed

creator: James Tissot

medium: Drypoint on laid paper; only state

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Scarabs from Hatshepsut Foundation Deposits

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Set of Five Soba Cups (Soba choko) with Interlinked Circles (Shippō)

date: second half 18th century

medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Arita 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: Side Chair

creator: Thomas Ash

medium: Maple, beech

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: E. L. Antony, Cameron, Texas]

creator: Walker Morris

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Curtain

medium: Linen embroidered with wool

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1947


title: Design for Wall with Fireplace and Side Tables

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Graphite with touches of white gouache

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: View from Koong-Yan-Shang Temple

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005


title: The Intoxication of Wine

creator: Clodion (Claude Michel)

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Jar

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent turquoise glaze

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Horace Havemeyer, 1956


title: Tile with Arms of Thomas Coke

date: early 16th century

medium: Glazed earthenware

country: British

subjects: British Ceramics-tile

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2015


title: Blindman's Bluff: Page From a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu)

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Mewar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, mewar)

credit_line: Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 1991


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware, slip decoration

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Māhatī Vīṇa

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, metal, parchment, horse hair

country: Indian (North)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 14 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: The Young Woman and the Jester

creator: Jacob Jordaens

medium: Black chalk and pen and brown ink, red chalk, and gray wash, heightened with white (oxidized)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Pembury Mill, Kent (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 12)

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching and mezzotint; second state of four (Finberg)

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1950


title: Pictorial print

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: dated 1762

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Elegant Compositions Tower

medium: Ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: pharaoh wearing Double Crown, kneeling figures below vultures holding shn symbols; ankh

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Gift of The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr., 1985


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: American or European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American or european

credit_line: Gift of Miss Dorinda White, 1963


title: New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Copper Engraving, plate 19

creator: Jan Collaert I

medium: Engraving

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


title: The Bacino, Venice, with the Dogana and a Distant View of the Isola di San Giorgio

creator: Luca Carlevaris

medium: Oil on canvas


title: Timothy John "Tim" Keefe, Pitcher, 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: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Tea Jar

medium: Clay stained and covered with glaze (Kyoto ware)

country: Japan

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


title: Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu

date: 9th century

medium: Bronze with silver inlay

country: Pakistan (Northwest Frontier Province, probably Swat Valley)

credit_line: Rogers and Edith Perry Chapman Funds, 1980


title: Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Bird

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Birds Ceramics-container

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


title: Fauchard of the Bodyguard of Cardinal Scipione Borghese-Caffarelli (1576–1633)

medium: Steel, copper, gold, silver, wood, textile

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cup

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Cabinet

date: ca. 1400 (rebuilt, 20th century)

medium: Walnut, iron.

country: Italian, Umbria and American (United States)

subjects: Italian, umbria and american (united states)


title: Netsuke of Equestrian Figure

date: 18th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Designs for a Chatelaine and an Etui

creator: Pierre Moreau

medium: Pen and gray ink with brush and rose, blue and green wash

subjects: Drawing Roses

credit_line: Purchase, Anne Stern Gift, 1984


title: The Yule Log in India — Bringing in the Ice, from "The Graphic" Christmas Number

creator: Charles Roberts

date: December 2, 1889

medium: Color wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019


title: Snow Falling on a Dutch Town

creator: Abraham Rademaker

medium: Gouache and watercolor; framing lines in pen and black ink and in gilt.

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1968


title: Basalt mortar

medium: Basalt

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Box with scenes from the Romance, "The Chatelaine of Vergy"

medium: Elephant ivory with gilded Silver mounts

country: French

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Design for Drawing Room Chairs, Louis Quinze Style

creator: Robert William Hume

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Jessie F. Hume, 1930


title: Pair of Prick Spurs

medium: Iron alloy, gold

country: Moroccan

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Moroccan

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool; tapestry woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Osiris and the Goddess of the West

creator: Hugh R. Hopgood

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Upper Portion of a Stela

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. G. W. Neville and Miss Cardwell, 1906


title: Mrs. Thomas Pechell (Charlotte Clavering, died 1841)

creator: John Hoppner

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Swift Neilson, 1945


title: Main Part of a Cup, from Fysirungen Zum Verzeichnen Für Die Goldtschmidt, Nuremberg, 1599

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Warwick Castle: The East Front

creator: Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Purse

medium: leather, metal

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Brantz Mayor, 1975


title: Sleeve weight

medium: Clay

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: The Last Supper

creator: Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

medium: Tempera and gold on wood


title: Card Number 5, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) 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: Group of Syrian Garments with Festive Dress,  Abaya, Agal Headcord, and Two Headscarfs

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Linen, silk, metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Gift of Irene Lewisohn and Alice Lewisohn Crowley, 1939


title: Seymour Seated

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on fine buff Japan; third state of three (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Tambourine

medium: Various woods, metal hardware, calfskin head

country: American

subjects:
Musical instrument
American

credit_line: Peter Szego, 2024


title: Bow harp

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Double-chambered bottle

creator: Wari artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Wari artist(s)

subjects:
Wari artist(s)
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1967


title: Design for Stanhope Phaeton, no. 3042a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

date: late 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: Lid

date: 9th–14th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Bracelet

creator: Ijebu-Yoruba artist

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Brass

country: Ijebu-Yoruba peoples

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Ijebu-yoruba people

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, 1991


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

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE


title: Two Urns Decorated with Human Figures, Animals and Garlands

creator: Polidoro da Caravaggio

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and gray wash highlighted with white gouache over traces of graphite

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Foot of a Vessel

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Bronze; chased, gilded (?)

subjects:
Metal
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Straka and Margaret Mushekian Gifts, 1974


title: The "Doria" Carpet

date: 17th century

medium: Silk (warp, weft, and pile), metal wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1950


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

creator: Douris


title: Lamp

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: February 8, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Jean-Baptiste Isabey

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


title: The Lyon and the Kid, from Ogilby's Aesopics

creator: Francis Barlow

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Phyllis Lambert, 1954


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Earthenware; painted and slip-painted painted under green glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Apron

date: early 17th century

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Nude Male Figure with Upraised Right Arm

creator: Girolamo Romanino

medium: Brush and brown wash, over slight traces of black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: William Holl, the Younger

medium: Stipple

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Life in Camp, Part 1: Water Call

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson Burdick, 1947


title: Annie Summerville, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Jug with Assyrian-inspired decoration

medium: Porcelain

country: British

credit_line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Bust of Napoleon

creator: Antonio Canova

medium: White marble (probably Carrara)

credit_line: Bequest of Roger Prigent, 2015


title: Earring, spiral with lion's head

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Piece

date: late 18th century


title: Frame

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Bottle

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

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


title: Card Number 328, Kiralfy Group, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Cross

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Will-o'-the-wisp, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Reliefs from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Slippers

medium: cotton, leather

country: European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Herman Delman, 1954


title: Vase fragment

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Tiles (4)

date: early 18th century

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Netsuke of Lion on a Stand

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Card Number 587, Lillian Grubb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


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


title: Bell (niuzhong)

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1997


title: Figure of a standing lady

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stoneware with polychrome enamels (Cizhou type ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Statuette of Imhotep

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Hafted Flask-Shaped Ax with Face

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Indonesia

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg, 1998


title: Teapot

medium: Pottery covered with a crackled glaze;overglaze enameled and gilded designs (Satsuma ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Mold: Grapes

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Study of Hemlock, 1871 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Daniel Huntington

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of S.B. Luyster, 1936


title: Ear Ornament for a  Deity

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold, coral, shell, and turquoise

country: Nepal

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Nepal
Corals & anemones
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Man's kente (prestige cloth)

creator: Asante-Akan artist

medium: Cotton, silk

country: Asante-Akan peoples

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Asante-akan people

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1972


title: Saucer

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mary Ann Payne Foundation Inc., 1962


title: Coffeepot

creator: John Langlands

medium: Silver, wood

credit_line: Bequest of Alfred Duane Pell, 1924


title: Lock and Key

medium: Brass

country: American or British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Armor plate

date: ca. late 8th–late 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Shabti

medium: Granodiorite?

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: [Boy Holding Cap, Resting Arm on a Column]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Brass; cast, inlaid with silver and copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: La fiamma è vicina al fuoco

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; second state of four

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


title: Textile with Kufic Inscription

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Small Hanging

medium: Silk, beads, feather, brass

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1967


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Scarab with Papryus Plant Decoration

medium: Blue glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Marie Jansen, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Shiva-Gauri

medium: Lithograph, printed in black and hand-coloring with watercolor and selectively applied glaze

country: West Bengal, Calcutta

subjects:
Print
West bengal, calcutta

credit_line: Purchase, Robert and Bobbie Falk Philanthropic Fund Gift, 2021


title: Bracelet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


title: Virgin and Child

medium: Elephant Ivory with paint and gilding

country: North French

subjects:
North french
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917