Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,435 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,129 of them are available online. There are 1,863 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Jasper Johns

Numbers

Joseph Pennell

The Cathedral of Canterbury from Christ’s Church Gateway

A pen and ink with brown wash drawing of Christ’s body being taken down from the Cross by his followers and Mary. The Cross is centered in the drawing.

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Deposition

Sebastian Schyz

Double-sided sheet: Recto: Perseus and Andromeda; Verso: Man in a hat with four lines of verse and the word 'Enswih'

Thomas Shotter Boys

View of Folkstone

An illusionistic drawing of sheets of printed papers haphazardly piled on a speckled green surface. The papers look convincingly three dimensional but are in fact renderings on a two-dimensional surface.

Willem Robart

Trompe l’Oeil with Printed Matter

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Badminton Victory

A pen and ink drawing inside an Italian restaurant. Two long tables filled with patrons recede towards the back door through which a waiter arrives with a heavy tray.

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Pinelli alla Trattoria (Pinelli at the Restaurant)

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

Angelica Kauffmann

Portrait of Stanislas III Poniatowski

Francesco Vanni

Study for Fall of Simon Magus

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

Francesco Guardi

Villa Loredan a Paese (Villa Loredan at Paese)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Totsuka (戸塚), Edo Period

Woodblock print depicting two barefoot figures against misty mountain scenery. The hunched woman has black trays of food in each hand and the child carries a black box.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Hiratsuka: Ferry at the Banyū River (平塚萬入川舟渡 Hiratsuka Banyūgawa funawatari), Edo Period

Woodblock print of a figure crouching next to a woven net beside a walking figure eating a skewer and balancing a spear on their shoulder, overtop a coastal scene.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Kanagawa: Panoramic View from Kanagawadai toward Yokohama Honmaku (神奈川従金川台　芒横浜本牧眺望 Kanagawadai yori Yokohama Honmaku chōbō), Edo Period

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