Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,137 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,605 of them are available online. There are 2,180 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Gaspare Galliari

Double-sided sheet: Recto: Stage setting in antique funerary hall; Verso: Stage design for a ruined portico

A sheet with various pen and ink study drawings. At left is a nude Hercules. At right are various annotations and sketches, including of a man wearing a plumed helmet.

Giovanni Battista Bertani

Double-Sided Sheet: Study for Hercules Victorious over the Hydra (recto); Study of Hercules a Roman Soldier’s Head, and Ornament (verso)

Francis Place

Dublin

A lightly drawn pen and ink rendering of a triumphal procession from the Old Testament. Abigail kneels in supplication at enter left. David stands proudly in the middle right.

Hendrik de Clerck

David and Abigail

Francesco Solimena

Alexander's Defeat of Darius at the Battle of Arbela

Maerten van Heemskerck

Study for The Triumph of David

Felice Giani

Vestal Virgins Showing the Will of Augustus to Tiberius and the Senate

An ink and wash drawing of scenes from Saint Joseph’s life, including Jesus’ birth and childhood. The scenes are presented within an ornate wall with figurative sculptures at the top.

Marco Tullio Montagna

Scenes from the Life of Saint Joseph

Pieter Jansz. Pourbus

Study for The Last Judgment

Francis Towne

A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris

A red chalk drawing of a woman sitting on a cane and wood chair. She wears an 18th century gown and looks to the right side of the drawing, smiling.

Louis Rolland Trinquesse

Seated Woman

Red chalk drawing of a smiling satyr’s head with delicate marks throughout and vigorous crosshatching at the chest. He has pointed ears and curly hair and beard.

Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d’Arpino

Head of a Satyr

A reed pen and black ink drawing of the interior of a tavern in Pompeii. A figure peers in the doorway at the ruins of the stone vats and bar.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Interior of a Tavern in Pompeii

A pen and ink drawing of Hercules and other figures in a physical. Floating in the sky above and behind him are three female allegories: Victory, Honor, and Fame.

Carlo Maratti

Double-Sided Sheet with Studies of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

A sketchy brown pen and ink study of an older, dapper gentlemen surrounded by a mass of ill-defined bowing supplicants. The image is overlaid with a grid, presumably for transfer.

James Gillray

Study for An Old English Gentleman Pester’d by Servants Wanting Places

Preparatory sketch done in black chalk with many ill-defined figures circumscribed by minimal marks. At center is a seated figure being presented a bolt of cloth by two faceless others.

François Boucher

Hecuba Presents a Garment as a Gift to Athena

Muirhead Bone

The Norfolk Broads

John White Abbott

On Lock Awe

George Barret the Younger

Ventnor Isle of Wight

Kenyon Cox

Vintage Baskets