Exhibitions/ Selected Artworks

Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Journeys

At The Met Fifth Avenue
July 31–October 30, 2018

Exhibition Objects


76 Objects

The east end of Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)

Date: 1803 Medium: Watercolor and graphite with reductive techniques Accession Number: 2007.39

Boats off the coast, storm approaching

John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)

Date: 1830 Medium: Watercolor over traces of graphite, with gouache (bodycolor), scratching out, stopping out, and gum arabic Accession Number: 2017.75

The Town of Beccles from the Bridge, Suffolk

John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)

Date: ca. 1818 Medium: Pen and brown pen, brush and wash, over graphite Accession Number: 2017.348

Farm Building by a Pond

John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)

Date: 1808–11(?) Medium: Watercolor over graphite Accession Number: 06.1051.5

Doorway, Heckingham Church

John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)

Date: ca. 1818 Medium: Graphite and watercolor Accession Number: 53.510.1

The Abbatial House, Abbey of St. Ouen, Rouen

John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)

Date: 1824–31 Medium: Graphite and watercolor, heightened with gouache (bodycolor) and with scratching out Accession Number: 2013.109

Lakenham, Near Norwich

John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)

Date: 1838 Medium: Soft-ground etching Accession Number: 22.100(40)

Capel Carrig, Caernarvonshire

John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)

Date: 1838 Medium: Soft-ground etching Accession Number: 22.100(42)

Near Durham

John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)

Date: 1838 Medium: Soft-ground etching Accession Number: 22.100(36)

Bust of a Man

Wolfgang Huber (German, Feldkirch/Vorarlberg ca. 1485/90–1553 Passau)

Date: 1522 Medium: Black and white chalk on off-white paper prepared with red gouache Accession Number: 50.202

Design for a sepulchral monument (recto); Design for a sepulchral monument (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger (Flemish, Antwerp 1648–1691 Antwerp)

Date: late 17th century Medium: Pen and brown ink, over red chalk and black chalk or graphite, red and brown wash (recto); pen and brown ink, over black chalk or graphite (verso) Accession Number: 2010.85

Allegory of the Life of the Dauphin

Charles Nicolas Cochin II (French, Paris 1715–1790 Paris)

Date: ca.1765 Medium: Red chalk, over traces of black chalk Accession Number: 61.136.4

Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth, the Infant Baptist, Saint Anthony of Padua, and a Female Martyr

Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) (Italian, Pontormo 1494–1556 Florence)

Date: 1514–22 Medium: Red chalk, brush and red wash Accession Number: 19.76.11

Studies of a Head and a Hand

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) (Italian, Florence 1486–1530 Florence)

Date: 1510 Medium: Red chalk Accession Number: 1996.12

Standing Woman Holding a Spindle, and Head of a Woman in Profile to Right

Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684–1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)

Date: ca. 1714–18 Medium: Two shades of red chalk Accession Number: 23.280.5

Ceres Seeking Her Daughter (The Mocking of Ceres)

Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583–1648 Utrecht)

Date: 1610 Medium: Engraving Accession Number: 69.627

Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis

Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583–1648 Utrecht)

Date: 1612 Medium: Etching; second state of two Accession Number: 28.82.1

The Flight into Egypt

Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583–1648 Utrecht)

Date: 1613 Medium: Engraving and etching Accession Number: 28.82.3

Tobias and the Angel (small plate)

Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583–1648 Utrecht)

Date: 1608 Medium: Engraving; Holl.'s second state of three Accession Number: 28.82.45

Tobias and the Angel (large plate)

Hendrick Goudt (Dutch, The Hague 1583–1648 Utrecht)

Date: 1613 Medium: Engraving Accession Number: 28.82.2

Christ with the Cross

Anonymous, German, 18th century

Date: 18th century Medium: Mixed media with hand-colored engraving, fabric, and paint on paper Accession Number: 61.688.52

The Madonna of Paradise, Our Lady of Good Counsel

Anonymous, German, 18th century

Date: 18th century Medium: Mixed media with hand-colored engraving, fabric, metallic thread, and paint on paper Accession Number: 1977.627.33

Saint Francis de Sales

Anonymous, 18th century

Date: 18th century Medium: Mixed media with hand-colored engraving, fabric, lace, and paint on paper Accession Number: 1977.627.12

Saint Thomas

Anonymous, German, 18th century

Date: 18th century Medium: Ink, silk, and painted vellum on a sheet of vellum with a gilt-stamped paper border Accession Number: 1977.627.27

Saint Alena

Anonymous, 18th century

Date: 18th century Medium: Mixed media with hand-colored engraving, fabric, lace, and paint on paper Accession Number: 1977.627.9

Saint Eustace

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date: ca. 1501 Medium: Engraving Accession Number: 19.73.65

The Vision of Saint Eustace

Anonymous, German, 16th century

Date: 16th century Medium: Pen and brown and black ink, over traces of black chalk. Accession Number: 80.3.483

The Entombment of Christ

Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Isola di Carturo 1430/31–1506 Mantua)

Date: before 1475 Medium: Engraving and drypoint; second state of two Accession Number: 37.42.30

The Entombment, after Mantegna

School of Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Date: 17th century Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over preliminary lines in red chalk, heightened with white on Japanese paper Accession Number: 1972.118.285

St. Jerome in the Wilderness

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar)

Date: 1509 Medium: Woodcut Accession Number: 41.1.160

The Penitent St. Jerome

Jost Amman (Swiss, Zurich before 1539–1591 Nuremberg)

Date: 1539–91 Medium: Pen and black and gray ink. Double framing line in pen and black ink, by the artist. Accession Number: 2008.505

An Allegory of the Union of the House of Orange and the Wittelsbach Family (Design for a Title Page of a Thesis)

Jonas Umbach (German, Augsburg 1624–1693 Augsburg)

Date: 1640–93 Medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash Accession Number: 2005.75

Ornament design for a thesis, the Strozzi coat of arms at top

Designed by Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)

Date: ca. 1660 Medium: Engraving with etching; second state of two Accession Number: 64.682.107

Allegorical thesis print with various figures, set in an architectural structure

Philippe Thomassin (French, Troyes 1562–1622 Rome)

Date: 1608 Medium: Engraving Accession Number: 51.501.4833

Allegory in Honor of Cardinal Richelieu

Charles Le Brun (French, Paris 1619–1690 Paris)

Date: 1641 Medium: Black chalk, traces of stumping, brush and black and gray wash; contours incised for transfer Accession Number: 1974.106

La Petite Thèse estampe appelée aussi Le Triomphe de La Vierge et Jubilé de La Vierge (The Small Thesis, also called The Triumph o fthe Virgin and Jubilee of the Virgin)

Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592–1635 Nancy)

Date: May, 1625 Medium: Etching; third state of three (Lieure) Accession Number: 57.650.602

Allegory of a thesis, two women hold inscribed tablets

Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian, Bologna ca. 1599–ca. 1676 Bologna (?))

Date: 1640 Medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks printed and green (only state) Accession Number: 17.50.21

Micrographic Design in the Shape of a Pair of Glasses

Anonymous

Date: early 17th century Medium: Pen and black and brown ink. Accession Number: 2014.96(1)

Schreibkunst (The Art of Writing)

Anton Neudörffer (German, Nuremberg 1571–1628 Regensburg)

Date: 1601, 1631 Medium: Woodcut; etching (fold out plates) Accession Number: 43.93.3

Spieghel der Schryfkonste...(Mirror of the Art of Writing)

Jan van de Velde I (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1568–1623 Haarlem)

Date: 1605 Medium: Plates: etching and woodcut Accession Number: 28.106.26

Libro Subtilissimo por el qual se enseña a escrevir . . . .

Juan de Yciar (Spanish, born Durango, 1523)

Date: 1564 Medium: plates: woodcut Accession Number: 28.106.10

The Adoration of the Shepherds

François Le Moyne (French, Paris 1688–1737 Paris)

Date: 1720–21 Medium: Black chalk heightened with white on blue paper. Accession Number: 61.130.5

The Resurrection of Christ

Joseph Heintz the Elder (Swiss, Basel 1564–1609 Prague)

Date: 1585 Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white over graphite or black chalk, on paper toned with transparent brown wash; framing lines in graphite at left and top edges Accession Number: 1996.52

The Vision of Saint William of Aquitaine

Giovanni Angelo Canini (Italian, Rome ca. 1609-17–1666 Rome)

Date: late 1650s Medium: Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk, on brown-washed paper Accession Number: 2006.393.2

Annunciation to the Shepherds

Jean Jacques Lagrenée (French, Paris 1739–1821 Paris)

Date: 1775 Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, on blue-washed paper Accession Number: 1983.302

Cephalus and Procris

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Date: 16th century Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white over black chalk Accession Number: 1996.21

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Ludovico Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1555–1619 Bologna)

Date: ca. 1587–89 Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache and cream color oil paint, over black chalk, on paper toned with light brown wash Accession Number: 2002.33

Job Reproved by His Friends

James Barry (Irish, Cork 1741–1806 London)

Date: dated 1777; issued ca. 1790 Medium: Etching over traces of aquatint; third state of five Accession Number: 2016.175

Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life

James Barry (Irish, Cork 1741–1806 London)

Date: plate dated May 1, 1791, issued 1792 Medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three Accession Number: 2014.796

A Grecian Harvest-Home, or Thanksgiving to the Rural Deities, Ceres, Bacchus, etc.

James Barry (Irish, Cork 1741–1806 London)

Date: dated May 1, 1791, issued 1792 Medium: Etching and engraving; unrecorded alternate third state of four Accession Number: 2014.656

Study for "Divine Justice"

James Barry (Irish, Cork 1741–1806 London)

Date: ca. 1802 Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over graphite Accession Number: 2015.44

The Angelic Guards

James Barry (Irish, Cork 1741–1806 London)

Date: 1808 Medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four Accession Number: 2016.596

Divine Justice

James Barry (Irish, Cork 1741–1806 London)

Date: 1808 Medium: Etching and engraving; final published state Accession Number: 2016.595

Satan, Sin, and Death: "Death and Sin met by Satan on his Return from Earth"

James Barry (Irish, Cork 1741–1806 London)

Date: 1792–95 Medium: Graphite, brush and brown ink, gray and brown wash heightened with touches of white Accession Number: 2013.545

Elysium & Tartarus, or The State of Final Retribution

James Barry (Irish, Cork 1741–1806 London)

Date: first published 1792; this state 1808 Medium: Etching and engraving; sixth state of six Accession Number: 2018.353

Sin Pursued by Death (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, 787, 790-792)

Moses Haughton the younger (British, Wednesbury, West Midlands 1773–1849 Birmingham)

Date: November 27, 1804 Medium: Stipple engraving and aquatint; published state Accession Number: 1970.603.2

Lovers embracing (recto). A suppliant figure (verso)

James Jefferys (British, Maidstone 1751–1784 London)

Date: 1779 Medium: Pen and carbon black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite Accession Number: 2013.145

Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book, 1837. With Poetical Illustrations by L.E.L

Frontispiece after Solomon Alexander Hart (British, Plymouth 1806–1881 London)

Date: 1837 Medium: Illustrations: engraving Accession Number: 35.53.108

Coronation of Queen Victoria

Henry Thomas Ryall (British, Frome, Somerset 1811–1867 Cookham, Berkshire)

Date: 1842 Medium: Mixed method engraving Accession Number: 49.40.325

Unused block of four "Penny Black" postage stamps of Queen Victoria

After a design by William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: issued May 6, 1840 Medium: Engraving printed in black ink on paper Accession Number: 2002.236.1

Unused block of four "Two Penny Blue" postage stamps of Queen Victoria

After a design by William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: issued May 8, 1840 Medium: Engraving printed in blue ink on paper Accession Number: 2002.236.2

Unused block of twelve "Penny Red Brown" postage stamps of Queen Victoria

After a design by William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: issued February 10, 1841 Medium: Engraving printed in red-brown ink on paper Accession Number: 2002.236.3

Unused block of forty-two "Two Penny Blue" postage stamps of Queen Victoria

After a design by William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: issued March 13, 1841 Medium: Engraving printed in blue ink on paper Accession Number: 2002.236.4

Unused block of four "Penny Black" postage stamps of Queen Victoria

After a design by William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: issued May 6, 1840 Medium: Engraving printed in black ink on paper Accession Number: 2002.399.10

Unused block of forty-two "Penny Red-Brown" postage stamps of Queen Victoria

After a design by William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: issued February 10, 1841 Medium: Engraving printed in red-brown ink on paper Accession Number: 2002.399.11

Queen Victoria (1819–1901), with poet on reverse

Medalist: William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: 1840 Medium: Gold Accession Number: 2000.224.28

William Wyon

Medalist: Philip Nathan (British)

Date: 1995 Medium: Nickel-brass alloy Accession Number: 2000.601.8

Victoria's Visit to the Corporation of London

Medalist: William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: 1837 Medium: Bronze Accession Number: 2000.224.29

Coronation of Queen Victoria (1819–1901)

Benedetto Pistrucci (Italian, 1783–1855, active England)

Date: 1838 Medium: Gold Accession Number: 2000.601.1

Coronation of Victoria

Benedetto Pistrucci (Italian, 1783–1855, active England)

Date: 1838 Medium: Silver Accession Number: 2000.323.3

Study for "Flying Victory"

William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: ca. 1830–40 Medium: Wax on slate Accession Number: 2007.490

The Jellalabad Medal (Afghanistan), 1842

Medalist: William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: 1842 Medium: Bronze Accession Number: X.14.8

Queen Victoria's Visit to the Corporation of London

Medalist: William Wyon (British, Birmingham 1795–1851 Brighton)

Date: 1837 Medium: Silver Accession Number: 2002.399.6

The letters of Sir Richard Westmacott

Sir Richard Westmacott (British, 1775–1856)

Date: 19th century Medium: Collection of letters Accession Number: 920.3 W52 F

William Wyon, R.A., chief engraver of Her Majesty's Mint

Leonard Charles Wyon (British, London 1826–1891 London)

Date: 1842 Accession Number: N6797.W96 A4 1842