The Collection Database is a searchable database of artworks and related materials
from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An individual database
record includes information about an object as well as images, when available. The
Museum's curators have selected several works of note within the Collection Database
as Highlights of the collection.
Due to the extremely large number of objects in the Museum's permanent collection,
not all artworks are currently available in the Collection Database. Furthermore,
information contained in the database records is, in some cases, incomplete, and
all information is subject to change according to ongoing research and new acquisitions.
For information about the Museum's policies that guide the development and care of its permanent collection,
see the Collections Management Policy.
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The Boys and Girl's Self-Instructing Drawing Book, for Amusement and Recreation |
Written by Benjamin F. Nutting |
1862 |
60.653.3 |
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The Boys and Girls' Self-Instructing Drawing Book, for Amusement and Recreation |
Written by Benjamin F. Nutting |
1862 |
54.524.12 |
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Initiatory Drawing Cards, in Four Parts, Part I |
Written by Benjamin F. Nutting |
1849 |
54.524.102(1-17) |
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The Pioneer Drawing Cards |
Written by Benjamin F. Nutting |
1856 |
54.524.103(1-24) |
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A Treatise on Perspective |
Written by Benjamin F. Nutting |
1831 |
54.524.75 |
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Catalogue of Furniture |
Manufactured by Wallace Nutting , Framingham, Massachusetts |
1927-1928 |
61.555.5 |
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Cloud-Lands of France |
Written by Amy Oakley |
1927 |
69.666.1 |
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Everyman a Compleat Builder; or easy rules and proportions for drawing and working the several parts of architecture. |
Written by Edward Oakley |
1766 |
36.31.5 |
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The Magazine of Architecture, Perspective, and Sculpture... |
Written by Edward Oakley |
1730 |
35.31.1 |
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Heat |
Robert Gober |
1989 |
1990.1087.4(1-2) |
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Obelischi Egizj che Adornano La Citta' Di Roma |
Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
1823 |
1970.613.26 |
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Oberländer-Album. Parts 1-8 |
Written by Adolf Oberländer |
[1875-1891] |
46.98.15(1-8) |
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A Treatise on Calico Printing... |
Written by Charles O'Brien |
1789 |
36.97 |
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Album of selected colors of the year by O'Brien paints |
Manufactured by O'Brien Corp. , South Bend, Indiana |
1958-1959 |
1977.595.98 |
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Illustrated catalogue...no. 38, of stoves, chimney pieces, kitchen ranges, general ironwork |
Manufactured by O'Brien, Thomas and Co. |
1903-1904 |
62.653.16 |
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Thomas O'Brien and Company, Catalogue no. 35 of stoves, chimney pieces, kitchen ranges |
Manufactured by O'Brien, Thomas and Co. |
1899-1900 |
63.568.21 |
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Illustrated Catalogue of Goods Manufactured and Sold by O'Brien, Thomas, & Co. |
Manufactured by O'Brien, Thomas and Co. |
1891 |
63.568.20 |
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Arabesque Panel from "Recueil d'Ornemens a l'usage des Jeunes Artistes" |
Gilles-Paul Cauvet |
n.d. [1777] |
51.644.369 |
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Des Prodigues. Plus Trois Livres de Polydore Vergile sur la meme matiere.. |
Written by Julius Obsequens |
1555 |
26.71.5 |
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The First Annual Printable Principles of Dialogue Print Portfolio |
Christopher Ballantyne |
2001-2002 |
2002.235.1–.23 |
