Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Allegory and Abstraction: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
17 documented works
Pieter Balten
The Dance of the World
mid-16th century
Engraving; second state
plate: 12 3/4 x 16 in. (32.4 x 40.7 cm) sheet: 16 1/4 x 20 1/16 in. (41.2 x 51 cm)
View at museumDaniel Hopfer|Anonymous, Italian, 15th to 16th century
Morris Dancers
late 15th–early 16th century
Etching; fourth state of four
sheet: 8 3/8 x 13 1/8 in. (21.2 x 33.3 cm)
View at museumIsrahel van Meckenem
Ornamental Engraving with Morris Dancers
Israhel van Meckenem
Engraving
Sheet: 4 7/8 × 10 3/4 in. (12.4 × 27.3 cm)
View at museumPieter van der Heyden|Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Hieronymus Cock
The Peasant Wedding Dance
after 1570
Engraving; New Holl.'s first state of three
sheet: 14 15/16 x 17 1/16 in. (38 x 43.3 cm)
View at museumAbraham Bosse|Jean I Leblond
Village Girl Dancing
1626–28
Etching
Sheet (trimmed): 11 5/16 × 7 9/16 in. (28.7 × 19.2 cm)
View at museumOtto Greiner
Study of a Female Dancer
late 19th–early 20th century
Black chalk and gouache
sheet: 12 3/16 x 9 11/16 in. (30.9 x 24.6 cm)
View at museumHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Edward Ancourt|l'Estampe Originale
Caudieux at the Petit Casino (from Le Café Concert)
1893
Crayon and spatter lithograph with scraper printed in black on wove paper; only state
Image: 10 13/16 × 8 9/16 in. (27.5 × 21.8 cm) Sheet: 17 5/16 × 12 5/8 in. (44 × 32 cm)
View at museumAdam Gutmann
An Allegory of Wealth
1598
Pen and black ink, gray, brownish-green and pink washes
sheet: 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm)
View at museumHans Jakob Ebelmann
An Allegory of Fortune with Two River Gods
1624
Pen and black ink and gray and blue wash over black chalk
sheet: 4 1/16 x 11 7/16 in. (10.3 x 29 cm)
View at museumPeter Schmidt von Lichtenberg
Allegory of Art
1609
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white on yellow prepared paper
sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 11/16 in. (19 x 14.5 cm)
View at museumChristian Richter
Allegory of the Transience of Life
1618
Pen and ink, brush and brown, blue and pink wash, heightened with white gouache
sheet: 5 x 5 15/16 in. (12.7 x 15.1 cm)
View at museumJoachim Lüchteke
Allegory of Art
1595
Pen and black ink, brush and coloured washes, heightened with white, over red chalk
sheet: 8 1/16 x 6 in. (20.5 x 15.2 cm)
View at museumThomas Girtin
Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland
1796–97
Watercolor
Sheet: 15 in. × 20 1/2 in. (38.1 × 52 cm)
View at museumJoseph Mallord William Turner
The Lake of Zug
1843
Watercolor over graphite
11 3/4 × 18 3/8 in. (29.8 × 46.6 cm) Framed: 21 × 27 in. (53.3 × 68.6 cm)
View at museumJoseph Mallord William Turner|Charles Turner|Joseph Mallord William Turner
Basle (Liber Studiorum, part I, plate 5)
June 11, 1807
Etching and mezzotint; first state of six (Finberg)
plate: 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (18.4 x 26 cm) sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (21 x 28.6 cm)
View at museumJoseph Mallord William Turner|Charles Turner
Lake of Thun, Swiss (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 15)
June 10, 1808
Etching, drypoint and mezzotint; first state of three
plate: 7 3/16 x 10 7/16 in. (18.3 x 26.5 cm) sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 7/16 in. (21.6 x 29.1 cm)
View at museumDavid Cox
Study of Clouds (recto); Study of an Elder Bush by a Fence (verso)
1820–45
Watercolor (recto); watercolor and graphite (verso)
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 9 7/16 in. (19.3 × 24 cm)
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