Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Independence and Identity: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
30 documented works

Charles Willson Peale
His Excellency George Washington Esq-r.
ca. 1777
Mezzotint, with hand coloring
sheet including text: 12 11/16 x 9 1/2 in. (32.2 x 24.2 cm)
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Nicolas Eustache Maurin
George Washington, First President of the United States
1828
Lithograph
Image: 11 9/16 × 9 5/8 in. (29.3 × 24.5 cm) Sheet: 17 3/4 × 13 9/16 in. (45.1 × 34.4 cm)
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Philip Dawe
The Patriotick Barber of New York, or the Captain in the Suds
February 14, 1775
Mezzotint
plate: 13 7/8 x 10 in. (35.3 x 25.4 cm) sheet: 16 1/2 x 11 9/16 in. (41.9 x 29.3 cm)
View at museum![L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/original/DP-44758-001.jpg)
Anonymous, French, 18th century
L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York]
1776–77
Hand-colored etching and engraving
Image: 8 1/4 × 14 3/4 in. (21 × 37.5 cm) Plate: 10 1/16 × 15 1/2 in. (25.5 × 39.3 cm)
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Claude Joseph Sauthier
A Plan of Operations of the King's Army, under the Command of General Sir William Howe, K.B., in New York and East New Jersey, against the American Forces Commanded by General Washington, From the 12th of October, to the 28th of November 1776...
February 25, 1777
Hand-colored etching and engraving
image: 29 1/2 x 19 7/8 in. (74.9 x 50.5 cm) sheet: 30 5/8 x 22 3/4 in. (77.8 x 57.8 cm)
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Robert Pollard
Lady Harriet Acland, Crossing the Hudson River to the American Lines, Presenting Her Safe Conduct
November 15, 1784
Aquatint and etching on chine collé
Plate: 17 5/8 × 22 1/8 in. (44.8 × 56.2 cm) Sheet: 19 1/8 × 25 1/16 in. (48.5 × 63.7 cm)
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Currier & Ives
The Capture of Andre by John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, New York, September 23, 1780
1876
Hand-colored lithograph
Image: 8 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (22.2 × 32.4 cm) Image and text: 9 7/8 × 12 3/4 in. (25.1 × 32.4 cm) Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 13/16 in. (27.3 × 37.6 cm)
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Alexander Hay Ritchie
Triumph of Patriotism– Washington Entering New York, 25 November 1783
1858
Mixed method engraving
sheet: 27 7/8 x 38 5/8 in. (70.8 x 98.1 cm)
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Isaiah Thomas
Royal American Magazine, or Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement, Vol. I
January–December 1774
Illustrations: engraving
Binding: 9 1/16 × 5 11/16 × 1 9/16 in. (23 × 14.5 × 4 cm) Book open in cradle: 9 1/16 × 12 3/16 in. (23 × 31 cm)
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Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United Colonies Continental Currency – Two Dollars
February 26, 1777
Etching and engraving, and nature printing
Sheet: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16 in. (9.5 × 6.9 cm)
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Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States Continental Currency – Forty Dollars
September 26, 1778
Engraving, letterpress, and nature printing
Sheet: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16 in. (9.5 × 6.9 cm)
View at museumElizabeth Catlett
Sharecropper
1952 (published 1968–70)
Linocut printed in green and black
Sheet: 20 1/16 × 18 7/8 in. (51 × 48 cm) Image: 17 1/2 × 16 9/16 in. (44.5 × 42 cm)
View at museumWillem van den Berg
Scheveningen Fisherman
1932
Black and brown fabricated chalk on paper
48 1/2 × 38 3/4 in. (123.2 × 98.4 cm)
View at museumSybil Andrews
Sledgehammers
1933
Monotype
Plate: 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm) Sheet: 11 1/2 × 14 3/4 in. (29.2 × 37.5 cm)
View at museumAlfredo Zalce
A Henequén Worker, from "Estampas de Yucatán" (1946)
1945
Lithograph
Sheet: 15 3/16 × 17 1/2 in. (38.5 × 44.5 cm)
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Pieter van der Heyden
Summer (Aestas), from "The Seasons"
1570
Engraving; first state of two
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 5/16 in. (22.5 x 28.7 cm)
View at museumMary Cassatt
In the Opera Box
ca. 1880
Drawing for soft ground transfer
sheet: 5 13/16 x 4 7/16 in. (14.8 x 11.3 cm)
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Camille Pissarro
Wooded Landscape at L'Hermitage, Pontoise
1879
Soft ground, aquatint, spit bite, etching, and drypoint on Japanese paper; sixth state of six (per Shapiro)
sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 in. (27 x 35.6 cm) plate: 8 11/16 x 10 9/16 in. (22 x 26.9 cm)
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Edgar Degas
Plate for "Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery"
1879–80
Copperplate, etched and aquantinted, gold-plated
11 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (30.2 × 12.4 cm)
View at museumJoseph Vogel
Vision #2
1939–41
Lithograph
sheet: 15 7/8 x 21 15/16 in. (40.4 x 55.8 cm) image: 12 7/16 x 18 1/8 in. (31.6 x 46.1 cm)
View at museumJoseph Vogel
"None So Blind ..."
1937–41
Lithograph
sheet: 14 1/2 x 20 in. (36.8 x 50.8 cm) image: 10 7/8 x 17 in. (27.7 x 43.2 cm)
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Nicolas Beatrizet
Castello Sant' Angelo, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
ca. 1555–65
Engraving; first state of three (Robert-Dumesnil)
sheet: 15 11/16 x 21 1/4 in. (39.9 x 54 cm) plate: 13 1/16 x 18 1/8 in. (33.1 x 46 cm)
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Louis Jean Desprez
The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
ca. 1781–1784
Etching with hand-coloring
sheet: 27 3/4 x 19 1/8 in. (70.5 x 48.6 cm) mat: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
View at museumFritz Beckert
Notre Dame
1912
Color lithograph
sheet: 24 1/8 x 19 3/4 in. (61.3 x 50.1 cm)
View at museumFrederick H. Evans
Lincoln Cathedral: From the Castle
1896
Photogravure
21 x 15.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. )
View at museumCharles Frederick Mielatz
Arch of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1909
Etching
Plate: 10 1/4 × 5 1/8 in. (26 × 13 cm) Sheet: 14 in. × 8 11/16 in. (35.5 × 22 cm)
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M. Grieshaber
Views of Strasbourg Cathedral and Designs of the Windows
ca. 1840
Lithograph
View at museumRoy Lichtenstein
Cathedral #1, from the Cathedral Series
1969
Lithographs and screenprint
Sheet: 48 9/16 × 32 1/2 in. (123.3 × 82.5 cm) Image: 41 13/16 in. × 27 in. (106.2 × 68.6 cm)
View at museumRoy Lichtenstein
Cathedral #3, from the Cathedral Series
1969
Lithograph
Sheet: 48 9/16 × 32 1/2 in. (123.3 × 82.5 cm) Image: 41 13/16 in. × 27 in. (106.2 × 68.6 cm)
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