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.
| Image | Title of Work or Type of Object | Artist or Maker | Date | Accession Number |
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Good Words for 1862 | Edited by Norman Macleod | 1862–65 | 65.629.3(1-4) |
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The Absurd ABC | Designed by Walter Crane | ca. 1874 | X.716 |
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Mrs. Mundi At Home: The Terrestrial Ball, R.S.V.P. | Written by Walter Crane | [1875] | 1972.655.20 |
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Princes Belle-Etoile | Illustrated by Walter Crane | 1875 | 1970.565.58 |
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The Yellow Dwarf | Illustrated by Walter Crane | 1875 | 1970.565.57 |
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Songs of Many Seasons | Illustrated by Walter Crane | 1876 | 69.604.29 |
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The Quiver of Love, A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern | Illustrated by Walter Crane | 1876 | 31.67.12 |
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The Baby's Opera, A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses...the Music by the Earliest Masters | Illustrated by Walter Crane | 1877 | 21.36.157 |
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The Baby's Bouquet, A Fresh Bunch of Rhymes and Tunes | Walter Crane | 1878 | 1970.565.590 |
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The New Forest, Its History and Its Scenery | Written by John Richard de Capel Wise | 1880 | 1972.655.21 |
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The First of May, A Fairy Masque | Written by John Richard de Capel Wise | 1881 | 21.36.162 |
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Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm | Illustrated by Walter Crane | 1882 | 1970.565.54 |
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Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm | Illustrated by Walter Crane | 1882 | 17.3.2641(59) |
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Two Little Waifs | Written by Mary Louisa Molesworth | 1890 | 1972.655.17 |
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"US" an Old-Fashioned Story | Written by Mary Louisa Molesworth | 1903 | 1972.655.16 |
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Pothooks & Perseverance: or the ABC-serpent | Designed and lithographed by Walter Crane | 1886 | 1972.655.31 |
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A Romance of the Three Rs | Illustrated by Walter Crane | 1886 | 46.93 |
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Legends for Lionel | Written by Walter Crane | 1887 | 1972.655.27 |
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The Baby's Own Aesop, Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals Pictorally Pointed | Written by William James Linton | 1887 | 21.36.156 |
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The Baby's Own Aesop, Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed | Illustrated by Walter Crane | 1887 | 1970.657.2 |
